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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic transients characterized by ultrahigh brightness temperatures, suggesting coherent emission mechanisms in extreme astrophysical processes. In this paper, we extend the bunched…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

Several important mechanisms that explain the coherent pulsar radio emission rely on streaming (or beam) instabilities of the relativistic pair plasma in a pulsar magnetosphere. However, it is still not clear whether a streaming instability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Alina C. Manthei , Jan Benáček , Patricio A. Muñoz , Jörg Büchner

Magnetic flares create hot relativistic shocks outside the light cylinder radius of a magnetised star. Radio emission produced in such a shock or at a radius smaller than the shock undergoes free-free absorption while passing through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Esha Kundu , Bing Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense, millisecond-duration broadband radio transients, the emission mechanisms of which are not understood. Masui et al. recently presented Green Bank Telescope observations of FRB 110523, which displayed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Vikram Ravi , Paul D. Lasky

Rotation measure (RM) and dispersion measure (DM) are characteristic properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) that contain important information of their source environment. The time evolution of RM and DM is more inclined to be ascribed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-28 Di Xiao

The extreme, time-variable Faraday rotation observed in the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 and its associated persistent synchrotron source demonstrates that some FRBs originate in dense, dynamic and possibly relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 H. K. Vedantham , V. Ravi

My thesis deals with a fundamental question of high energy gamma-ray astronomy. Namely, I studied the cut-off shape of the Crab pulsar spectrum to distinguish between the leading scenarios for the pulsar models. Pulsars are celestial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-18 Takayuki Saito

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are notorious for their diversity. Yet, they have a series of common features. The typical energy of their $\gamma$ rays is a fraction of an MeV. The energy distributions are well described by a ``Band spectrum'',…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arnon Dar , A. De Rujula

Relativistic magnetized shocks are natural sources of coherent radiation, representing a promising framework for fast radio bursts (FRBs). This study explores how the radiation reaction (RR) effect, triggered by high-energy photon emissions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Yu Zhang , Yuanpei Yang , Liangliang Ji

The phenomenon of fast radio bursts (FRBs) was discovered in 2007. These are powerful (0.1-100 Jy) single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds, large dispersion measures, and record high brightness temperatures suggesting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-14 S. B. Popov , K. A. Postnov , M. S. Pshirkov

Since the discovery of FRB 200428 associated with the Galactic SGR 1935+2154, magnetars are considered to power fast radio bursts (FRBs). It is widely believed that magnetars could form by core-collapse (CC) explosions and compact binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Z. Y. Zhao , G. Q. Zhang , Y. Y. Wang , Z. L. Tu , F. Y. Wang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), characterized by strong bursts of radiation intensity at radio wavelengths lasting on the order of a millisecond, have yet to be firmly associated with a family, or families, of astronomical sources. It follows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Martin Houde , Abhilash Mathews , Fereshteh Rajabi

In this paper we develop a model for fast radio bursts (FRBs) based on triggered superradiance (SR) and apply it to previously published data of FRB 110220 and FRB 121102. We show how a young pulsar located at ~100 pc or more from an SR/FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Martin Houde , Fereshteh Rajabi , B. M. Gaensler , A. Mathews , Victor Tranchant

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new kind of extragalactic radio transients. Some of them show repeating behaviors. Recent observations indicate that a few repeating FRBs (e.g., FRB 121102) present time--frequency downward drifting patterns…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

'Downwards drifting' structures observed in fast radio bursts (FRBs) could naturally arise from a screen occurring after a small initial dispersion measure region. The screen imprints temporally sharp but broadband structure on the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-30 Artem Tuntsov , Ue-Li Pen , Mark Walker

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is currently an open question with several proposed sources and corresponding mechanisms for their production. Among them are compact binary coalescences (CBCs) that also generate gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Soummyadip Basak , Parameswaran Ajith , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

We present the outline of a new model for the coherent radio emission of pulsars that succeeds in reproducing the energetics and brightness temperatures of the observed radio emission from the observationally deduced distances of 50-100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. Kunzl , H. Lesch , A. Jessner

A fast radio burst (FRB) localized to a globular cluster (GC) challenges FRB models involving ordinary young magnetars. In this paper, we examine the rapid spindown millisecond neutron star (NS) scenario, which favours the dynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-13 Dongzi Li , Ue-Li Pen

Recent observations indicate that magnetars may commonly reside in merging compact binaries and at least part of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sourced by magnetar activities. It is natural to speculate that a class of merging neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang , Kent Yagi

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Ye Li