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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful cosmological probes in recent years offering valuable insights into cosmic expansion. These predominantly extragalactic transients encode information on the expansion of the Universe through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , David J. Bacon , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , David Wands

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show a large value and complex variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs). The binary systems containing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and a neutron star (NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Rui-Nan Li , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Zhifu Gao , F. Y. Wang

We present a Monte Carlo-based population synthesis study of fast radio burst (FRB) dispersion and scattering focusing on the first catalog of sources detected with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst…

Current and upcoming radio telescopes are being designed with increasing sensitivity to detect new and mysterious radio sources of astrophysical origin. While this increased sensitivity improves the likelihood of discoveries, it also makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 Alessio Sclocco , Dany Vohl , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

We investigate whether current data on the distribution of observed flux densities of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are consistent with a constant source density in Euclidean space. We use the number of FRBs detected in two surveys with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Niels Oppermann , Liam Connor , Ue-Li Pen

We report on improved sky localizations of thirteen repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered by CHIME/FRB via the use of interferometric techniques on channelized voltages from the telescope. These so-called 'baseband localizations'…

The frequency-dependent time delays in fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to constrain the photon mass, if the FRB redshifts are known, but the similarity between the frequency dependences of dispersion due to plasma effects and a photon…

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has emerged as the prime telescope for detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs). CHIME/FRB Outriggers will be a dedicated very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) instrument consisting of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 J. Mena-Parra , C. Leung , S. Cary , K. W. Masui , J. F. Kaczmarek , M. Amiri , K. Bandura , P. J. Boyle , T. Cassanelli , J. -F. Cliche , M. Dobbs , V. M. Kaspi , T. L. Landecker , A. Lanman , J. L. Sievers

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond durations which typically occur at extragalactic distances. The association of FRB 20200428 with the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 strongly indicates that they could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Chen Du , Yong-Feng Huang , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Alexander Rodin , Viktoriya Fedorova , Abdusattar Kurban , Di Li

We present a spectro-temporal analysis of 137 fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the first CHIME/FRB baseband catalog, including 125 one-off bursts and 12 repeat bursts, down to microsecond resolution using the least-squares optimization fitting…

Aims. Fast Radio Bursts are bright radio transients whose origin has not yet explained. The search for a multi-wavelength counterpart of those events can put a tight constrain on the emission mechanism and the progenitor source. Methods. We…

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) of impulsive nature is created by sources like sparking on high-power transmission lines due to gap or corona discharge and automobile sparking, and it affects the entire observing frequency bands of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Kaushal D. Buch , Ruta Kale , Mekhala Muley , Sanjay Kudale , Ajithkumar B.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond duration transients observed in the radio band, with their origin and radiation mechanism remaining unclear to date. Growing evidence indicates that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

The millisecond-duration radio flashes known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) represent an enigmatic astrophysical phenomenon. Recently, the sub-arcsecond localization (~ 100mas precision) of FRB121102 using the VLA has led to its unambiguous…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond transient radio events with a high energy. By identifying the origin of the \textbf{burst}, it is possible to measure the redshift of the host galaxy, which can be used to constrain cosmological and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Thais Lemos , Rodrigo S. Gonçalves , Joel C. Carvalho , Jailson S. Alcaniz

In a search for short timescale astrophysical transients in time-domain data, radio-frequency interference (RFI) causes both large quantities of false positive candidates and a significant reduction in sensitivity if not correctly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 V. Morello , K. M. Rajwade , B. W. Stappers

Precise localizations of a small number of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have enabled multiwavelength follow-up observations revealing diverse local environments. However, the 2--3\% of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 FRB Collaboration , Thomas C. Abbott , Daniel Amouyal , Shion E. Andrew , Kevin Bandura , Mohit Bhardwaj , Kalyani Bhopi , Yash Bhusare , Charanjot Brar , Alice Cai , Tomas Cassanelli , Shami Chatterjee , Jean-François Cliche , Amanda M. Cook , Alice P. Curtin , Evan Davies-Velie , Matt Dobbs , Fengqiu Adam Dong , Yuxin Dong , Gwendolyn Eadie , Tarraneh Eftekhari , Wen-fai Fong , Emmanuel Fonseca , B. M. Gaensler , Nina Gusinskaia , Jason W. T. Hessels , Danté M. Hewitt , Jeff Huang , Naman Jain , Ronniy. C. Joseph , Lordrick Kahinga , Victoria M. Kaspi , Afrasiyab , Khan , Bikash Kharel , Adam E. Lanman , Magnus L'Argent , Mattias Lazda , Calvin Leung , Robert Main , Lluis Mas-Ribas , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Kyle McGregor , Ryan Mckinven , Juan Mena-Parra , Daniele Michilli , Nicole Mulyk , Mason Ng , Kenzie Nimmo , Ayush Pandhi , Swarali Shivraj Patil , Aaron B. Pearlman , Ue-Li Pen , Ziggy Pleunis , J. Xavier Prochaska , Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Scott M. Ransom , Gurman Sachdeva , Mawson W. Sammons , Ketan R. Sand , Paul Scholz , Vishwangi Shah , Kaitlyn Shin , Seth R. Siegel , Sunil Simha , Kendrick Smith , Ingrid Stairs , David C. Stenning , Haochen Wang , Thomas Boles , Ismaël Cognard , Tammo Jan Dijkema , Alexei V. Filippenko , Marcin P. Gawroński , Wolfgang Herrmann , Charles D. Kilpatrick , Franz Kirsten , Shawn Knabel , Omar S. Ould-Boukattine , Hadrien Paugnat , Weronika Puchalska , William Sheu , Aswin Suresh , Aaron Tohuvavohu , Tommaso Treu , WeiKang Zheng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the first cosmological radio sources that vary on millisecond timescales, which makes them a unique probe of the Universe. Many proposed applications of FRBs require associated redshifts. These can only be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Joscha N. Jahns , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker , Carlton M. Baugh

FRB 20180916B is a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) with a 16.3-day periodicity in its activity. In this study, we present morphological properties of 60 FRB 20180916B bursts detected by CHIME/FRB between 2018 August and 2021 December. We…

Revealing the cosmic reionisation history is at the frontier of extragalactic astronomy. The power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation can be used to constrain the reionisation history. Here we propose a…