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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

The radiation mechanism of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been extensively studied but still remains elusive. Coherent radiation is identified as a crucial component in the FRB mechanism, with charged bunches also playing a significant role…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-22 Xiang-han Cui , Zheng-wu Wang , Cheng-min Zhang , Chen-hui Niu , Di Li , Jian-wei Zhang , De-hua Wang

The fast (ms) radio bursts reported by Thornton, {\it et al.} have extremely high brightness temperatures if at the inferred cosmological distances. This implies coherent emission by "bunches" of charges. We model the emission region as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 J. I. Katz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration signals that are highly dispersed at distant galaxies. However, the physical origin of FRBs is still unknown. Coherent curvature emission by bunches, e.g., powered by starquakes, has already…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 Wei-Yang Wang , Jin-Chen Jiang , Jiguang Lu , Heng Xu , Jiangwei Xu , Kejia Lee , Jifeng Liu , Renxin Xu

The extremely high brightness temperatures of pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs) require their radiation mechanisms to be coherent. Coherent curvature radiation by bunches has been long discussed as the mechanism for radio pulsars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

Coherent curvature radiation as the radiation mechanism for fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been discussed since FRBs were discovered. We study the spectral and polarization properties of repeating FRBs within the framework of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Chen-Hui Niu , Renxin Xu , Bing Zhang

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

Recent observations show that fast radio bursts (FRBs) are energetic but probably non-catastrophic events occurring at cosmological distances. The properties of their progenitors are largely unknown in spite of many attempts to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond transient astrophysical phenomena and bright at radio frequencies. The emission mechanism, however, remains unsolved yet. One scenario is a coherent emission associated with the magnetar flares and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Masanori Iwamoto , Yosuke Matsumoto , Takanobu Amano , Shuichi Matsukiyo , Masahiro Hoshino

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients with millisecond duration and extremely high brightness temperature. Very recently, some highly circularly polarized bursts were found in a repeater, FRB 20201124A. The significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

We propose a novel idea for the coherent intense millisecond radio emission of cosmic fast radio bursts (FRBs), which have recently been identified with flares from a magnetar. Motivated by the conventional paradigm of Type III solar radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Edison Liang

The extremely high brightness temperature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) requires that their emission mechanism must be "coherent", either through concerted particle emission by bunches or through an exponential growth of a plasma wave mode or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Bing Zhang

We provide constraints on the nature of particle bunches that power fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the coherent curvature radiation model. It has been shown that current-induced perturbation to the motion of individual particles results in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-29 A. J. Cooper , R. A. M. J. Wijers

Lyutikov (2002) predicted "radio emission from soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) during their bursting activity". Detection of a Mega-Jansky radio burst in temporal coincidence with high energy bursts from a Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Maxim Lyutikov , Sergey Popov

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense, millisecond-duration radio transients that have recently been proposed to arise from coherent radiation mechanisms within the magnetosphere of neutron stars. Observations of repeating FRBs, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Gong-Yu Yao , Can-Min Deng

Recent observations of coherent radiation from the Crab pulsar (Bij et al 2021) suggest the emission is driven by an ultra - relativistic ($\gamma \sim 10^4$), cold plasma flow. A relativistically expanding plasma shell can compress the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Almog Yalinewich , Ue-Li Pen

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

In this letter a new coherent gamma emission mechanism, called Super-Cerenkov radiation, is introduced. The SCR is expected to take place when the charged particle is moving in a medium with a phase velocity satisfying the super-coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Ion , M. L. Ion

One scenario for the generation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is magnetic reconnection in a current sheet of the magnetar wind. Compressed by a strong magnetic pulse induced by a magnetar flare, the current sheet fragments into a self-similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , A. Levinson , A. Spitkovsky , H. Hakobyan

Emission process of a charged particle propagating in a medium with a curved magnetic field is considered. This mechanism combines features of conventional Cherenkov and curvature emission. Thus, presence of a medium with the index of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 George Machabeli , Nino Chkheidze
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