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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, millisecond-duration transients that offer great potential for probing the universe, yet their physical origins remain unclear. The dispersion measure (DM) and scattering time ($\tau$) distributions…
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Variations of the dispersion (DM) and rotation (RM) measures of FRB 121102 indicate magnetic fields $\sim$ 3--17 mG in the dispersing plasma. The electron density may be $\sim 10^4\,$cm$^{-3}$. The observed time scales $\sim 1$ year…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients of unknown origin. Rotation measures (RMs) probe their local magneto-ionic environments and provide important clues to their nature. While RM variability has…
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