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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-timescale bursts of coherent radio emission that are luminous enough to be detectable at cosmological distances. In this review I describe the discovery of FRBs, subsequent advances in our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-14 Matthew Bailes

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

The discovery of radio pulsars over a half century ago was a seminal moment in astronomy. It demonstrated the existence of neutron stars, gave a powerful observational tool to study them, and has allowed us to probe strong gravity, dense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 E. Petroff , J. W. T. Hessels , D. R. Lorimer

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

We summarize our understanding of millisecond radio bursts from an extragalactic population of sources. FRBs occur at an extraordinary rate, thousands per day over the entire sky with radiation energy densities at the source about ten…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are newly discovered radio transient sources. Their high dispersion measures indicate an extragalactic origin. But due to the lack of observational data in other wavelengths, their progenitors still remain unclear.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-11 J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious radio transients whose physical origin is still unknown. Within a few astronomical units near an FRB source, the electric field of the electromagnetic wave is so large that the electron oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-01 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

We briefly review main observational properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and discuss two most popular hypothesis for the explanation of these enigmatic intense millisecond radio flashes. FRBs most probably originate on extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 S. B. Popov , K. A. Postnov , M. S. Pshirkov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio sources at cosmological distances. No counterparts in other bands have been observed for { non-repeating FRBs}. Here we suggest the collapse of strange star crusts as a possible origin for FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-15 Yue Zhang , Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are recently discovered mysterious single pulses of radio emission, mostly coming from cosmological distances ($\sim 1$ Gpc). Their short duration, $\sim 1$ ms, and large luminosity evidence coherent emission. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Yuri Lyubarsky

In 2007, a very bright radio pulse was identified in the archival data of the Parkes Telescope in Australia, marking the beginning of a new research branch in astrophysics. In 2013, this kind of millisecond bursts with extremely high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-08 Di Xiao , Fayin Wang , Zigao Dai

The era of fast radio bursts (FRBs) was open in 2007, when a very bright radio pulse of unknown origin was discovered occasionally in the archival data of Parkes Telescope. Over the past fifteen years, this mysterious phenomenon have caught…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Di Xiao , Fayin Wang , Zigao Dai

The field of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) science is currently thriving and growing rapidly. The lines of active investigation include theoretical and observational aspects of these enigmatic millisecond radio signals. These pursuits are for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-05 E. F. Keane

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration astronomical radio pulses of unknown physical origin that appear to come from extragalactic distances. Previous follow-up observations have failed to find additional bursts at the same dispersion…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are transient sources that emit a single radio pulse with a duration of only a few milliseconds. Since the discovery of the first FRB in 2007, tens of similar events have been detected. However, their physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-25 B. Marcote , Z. Paragi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration intense radio flares occurring at cosmological distances. Many models have been proposed to explain these topical astronomical events, but none has so far been confirmed. Here we show that a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 Sudip Bhattacharyya

Eighteen years after their discovery, the astronomical sources and radiation mechanisms of fast radio bursts remain mysterious. Their radiation is as bright as that of pulsars, with brightness temperatures as high as $\sim 10^{36}$ K,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 J. I. Katz

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transient events, a subset of which have been localized to their host galaxies. Their high dispersion measures offer valuable insights into the ionized plasma along their line of sight, enabling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond bursts of radio radiation at frequencies of about 1 GHz, recently discovered in pulsar surveys. They have not yet been definitively identified with any other astronomical object or phenomenon. The bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-10 J. I. Katz

Since their serendipitous discovery, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have garnered a great deal of attention from both observers and theorists. A new class of radio telescopes with wide fields of view have enabled a rapid accumulation of FRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Noah Pearson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Joel Meyers
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