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Variations in the Faraday rotation measure (RM) of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide critical diagnostics of the dynamically evolving magneto-ionic environments surrounding their progenitors. Sudden, transient ``RM flares'' can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Yuan-Pei Yang , Boyang Liu

We report the first detection of polarization angle (PA) orthogonal jumps, a phenomenon previously only observed from radio pulsars, from a fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A. We find three cases of orthogonal jumps in over two…

Observations by the {\RHESSI} satellite of large polarization of the prompt $\gamma$-ray emission from the Gamma Ray Burst GRB021206 \citep{coburn03} imply that the magnetic field coherence scale is larger than the size of the visible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim Lyutikov , V. I. Pariev , Roger Blandford

Relativistic flying mirrors in plasmas are realized as thin dense electron (or electron-ion) layers accelerated by high-intensity electromagnetic waves to velocities close to the speed of light in vacuum. The reflection of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Zh. Esirkepov , Masaki Kando , James K. Koga

Fast radio bursts are mysterious millisecond-duration transients prevalent in the radio sky. Rapid accumulation of data in recent years has facilitated an understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms of these events. Knowledge gained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Bing Zhang

A hypothetical photon mass, $m_\gamma$, gives an energy-dependent light speed in a Lorentz-invariant theory. Such a modification causes an additional time delay between photons of different energies when they travel through a fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-20 Lijing Shao , Bing Zhang

We investigate the formation of multiple images as the radio signals from fast radio bursts (FRBs) pass through the plane of a plasma clump. The exponential model for the plasma clump is adopted to analyze the properties of the multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-28 Y-B. Wang , Z-G. Wen , R. Yuen , N. Wang , J-P. Yuan , X. Zhou

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasma mostly located in the intergalactic medium. We observe a…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of electromagnetic signals, often carries critical information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Yi Feng , Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Shi Dai , Ju-Mei Yao

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses with largely unknown origins, with a subset exhibiting repeating behavior. Magnetars highly magnetized neutron stars and a leading progenitor candidate for FRBs also produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Ellen C. C. Lin , Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto

Some of the mysterious temporal properties of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) may be explained if they are produced by dynamically triaxial magnetars. If the bursts are narrowly collimated along open field lines, then observed repeating FRB are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 J. I. Katz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Two possible mechanisms that could generate extremely coherent emission from FRBs invoke neutron star magnetospheres or relativistic shocks far from the…

The nature of coherent radio emission is still challenging even after more than half a century of pulsar discovery, but it is generally a consensus that single-pulse observations are essential for probing the magnetospheric dynamics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Shunshun Cao , Yanjun Guo , Jinchen Jiang , Kejia Lee , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

The number of identified Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is increasing rapidly with current and future facilities. Strongly lensed FRBs are expected to be found as well, which can provide precise time delays and thus have rich applications in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Xinzhong Er , Shude Mao

We propose a new model for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) based on a sudden discharge of a charged young magnetar, caused by the short falling timescale of oppositely charged particles onto the magnetar. In this scenario, curvature radiation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Marcio G. B. de Avellar , Pedro P. B. Beaklini , Sílvia P. Nunes , Pedro H. R. S. Moraes , Manuel Malheiro

A number of disparate observational and theoretical pieces of evidence indicate that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, neutron stars' closed field lines are populated by dense, hot plasma and may be responsible for producing some radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maxim Lyutikov

In this paper we present, for the first time, simulated maps of the circularly polarized synchrotron emission from the Crab nebula, using multidimensional state of the art models for the magnetic field geometry. Synchrotron emission is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 N. Bucciantini , B. Olmi

Plasma lenses in the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) can strongly modulate FRB amplitudes for a wide range of distances, including the $\sim $ Gpc distance of the repeater FRB121102. To produce caustics, the lens'…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 J. M. Cordes , I. Wasserman , J. W. T. Hessels , T. J. W. Lazio , S. Chatterjee , R. S. Wharton

Observational detection of quasi-periodic drifting fine structures in a type III radio burst associated with a solar flare SOL2015-04-16T11:22, with Low Frequency Array, is presented. Although similar modulations of the type III emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Eduard P. Kontar

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, coherent, short-duration radio transients of as-yet unknown extragalactic origin. FRBs exhibit a wide variety of spectral, temporal and polarimetric properties, which can unveil clues into their emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , A. Keimpema , A. M. Archibald , J. M. Cordes , R. Karuppusamy , F. Kirsten , D. Z. Li , B. Marcote , Z. Paragi