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The first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to be precisely localized was associated with a luminous persistent radio source (PRS). Recently, a second FRB/PRS association was discovered for another repeating source of FRBs. However, it is not clear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 C. J. Law , L. Connor , K. Aggarwal

Fast radio burst (FRB) is a type of extragalactic radio signal characterized by millisecond duration, extremely high brightness temperature, and large dispersion measure. It remains a mystery in the universe. Advancements in instrumentation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Qin Wu , Fa-Yin Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic transients with typical durations of milliseconds. FRBs have been shown, however, to fluctuate on a wide range of timescales: some show sub-microsecond sub-bursts while others last up to a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 M. P. Snelders , K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , Z. Bensellam , L. P. Zwaan , P. Chawla , O. S. Ould-Boukattine , F. Kirsten , J. T. Faber , V. Gajjar

We report on the discovery and analysis of bursts from nine new repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources found using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. These sources span a dispersion measure (DM) range of…

Understanding the nature of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) is crucial to probe their underlying physics. In this work, we analyze the waiting time statistics between bursts of three repeating FRBs from four datasets. We find a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-06 Ping Wang , Li-Ming Song , Shao-Lin Xiong , Xiao-Yun Zhao , Jin Wang , Shu-Min Zhao , Shuo Xiao , Ce Cai , Sheng-Lun Xie , Wang-Chen Xue , Chen-Wei Wang , Yue Wang , Wen-Long Zhang

The detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in radio astronomy is a complex task due to the challenges posed by radio frequency interference (RFI) and signal dispersion in the interstellar medium. Traditional search algorithms are often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yi Feng , Chao-Wei Tsai , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Hua-Xi Chen , Yu-Hao Zhu

The empirical classification of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into long and short GRBs based on their durations is already firmly established. This empirical classification is generally linked to the physical classification of GRBs originating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 Jia-Wei Luo , Fei-Fei Wang , Jia-Ming Zhu-Ge , Ye Li , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Bing Zhang

The puzzling mechanism of coherent radio emission remains unknown, but fortunately, repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a precious opportunity, with extremely bright subpulses created in a clear and vacuum-like pulsar magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Renxin Xu , Weiyang Wang

To investigate whether apparently non-repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are truly one-off transients, we conducted systematic follow-up observations of 27 out of 81 non-repeating FRBs identified in the Parkes Transient Database. Using 59.0…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Xuan Yang , Songbo Zhang , Xuefeng Wu

The CHIME radio telescope operates in the frequency bandwidth of 400 to 800 MHz. The CHIME/FRB collaboration has a data pipeline that analyzes the data in real time, suppresses radio frequency interferences (RFI) and searches for FRBs.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 K. J. Luke

How the event rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) evolves with redshift is a hot topic to explore their cosmological origin and the circum-burst environment. Particularly, it is urgent to know what the difference of event rates between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Q. Pan , X. Y. Du , Z. B. Zhang , Y. F. Huang , L. B. Li , G. A. Li

The physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still unknown. Multiwavelength and polarization observations of an FRB source would be helpful to diagnose its progenitor and environment. So far only the first repeating source FRB 121102…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yuan-Pei Yang , Qiao-Chu Li , Bing Zhang

High redshift Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are expected to be extremely powerful probes of our Universe. However, while a significant number of FRBs are expected to exist at high redshift, detecting them has been difficult, with only a handful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Mawson W Sammons , Evan Davies-Velie , Matt Dobbs , Zarif Kader , Seth R. Siegel , Jonathan Sievers

We present the discovery of twelve thus far non-repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources, detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. These sources were selected from a database comprising of order…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Thus far, they have been blindly detected at millisecond timescales with dispersion measures (DMs) between 110--2600\,pc\,cm$^{-3}$. However, the observed pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Liam Connor

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, bright radio signals (fluence $\mathrm{0.1 - 100\,Jy\,ms}$) emitted from extragalactic sources of unknown physical origin. The recent CHIME/FRB and STARE2 detection of an extremely bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 F. Kirsten , M. Snelders , M. Jenkins , K. Nimmo , J. van den Eijnden , J. Hessels , M. Gawronski , J. Yang

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'…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense pulses with unknown origins. A subclass of repeating FRBs show some common features, such as associated compact persistent radio sources (PRSs), high burst rates, and large host-galaxy dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 F. Y. Wang , H. T. Lan , Z. Y. Zhao , Q. Wu , Y. Feng , S. X. Yi , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are cosmological sub-second bursts of coherent radio emission, whose source is still unknown. To date, the galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 is the only astrophysical object known to emit radio bursts akin to FRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Simone Dall'Osso , Riccardo La Placa , Luigi Stella , Pavel Bakala , Andrea Possenti