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The physical nature of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a new type of cosmological transients discovered recently, is not known. It has been suggested that FRBs can be produced when a spinning supra-massive neutron star loses centrifugal support…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Bing Zhang

Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), still eluding a rational explanation, are astronomical radio flashes with durations of milliseconds. They are thought to be of an extragalactic origin, with luminosities orders of magnitude larger than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 George Machabeli , Andria Rogava , Beka Tevdorashvili

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…

In this paper we consider the fact that the simple criterion used to label fast radio transient events as either fast radio bursts (FRBs, thought to be extragalactic with as yet unknown progenitors) or rotating radio transients (RRATs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-25 E. F. Keane

Despite the first detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) being as recent as 2007, they have already been proven to be a fantastic tool as a unique cosmological probe. In this chapter, after a brief introduction to FRBs and how they are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 Marcin Glowacki , Khee-Gan Lee

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

We examine the possibility that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originate from the activity of extragalactic civilizations. Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Manasvi Lingam , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic, millisecond-duration radio flashes that reach Earth from extragalactic distances. Broadly speaking, FRBs can be classified as repeating or (apparently) non-repeating. It is still unclear,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 F. Kirsten , O. Ould-Boukattine , W. Herrmann , M. Gawronski , J. Hessels , W. Lu , M. Snelders , P. Chawla , J. Yang , R. Blaauw , K. Nimmo , W. Puchalska , P. Wolak , R. van Ruiten

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

In less than a decade, fast radio bursts have gone from a single debated curiosity to a diverse extragalactic population with established host galaxies and energy scales. While a wide range of models remain viable, the central engines of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-21 Shami Chatterjee

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio transients of extragalactic origin lasting for about a few to several milli-seconds. We have analyzed both non-CHIME and CHIME FRB data. To circumvent the absence of measured fluence and flux density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Nidhi Saini , Patrick Das Gupta

Fast radio burst (FRBs) are an exciting class of bright, extragalactic, millisecond radio transients. The recent development of large field-of-view (FOV) radio telescopes has caused a rapid rise in the number of identified single burst and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-24 Matthew Lundy

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a newly discovered class of radio transients that emerge from cosmological sources and last for $\sim$ a few milliseconds. However, their origin remains a highly debated topic in astronomy. Among the plethora of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Mohit Bhardwaj , Antonella Palmese , Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Virginia D'Emilio , Soichiro Morisaki

The recent development of sensitive, high time resolution instruments at radio telescopes has enabled the discovery of millisecond duration fast radio bursts (FRBs). The FRB class encompasses a number of single pulses, many unique in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 Manisha Caleb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond-duration radio transients of extragalactic origin. Some of them repeat, while others apparently do not. Investigations of periodic activity in repeating FRB have been conducted to probe…

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

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

Multi-wavelength (MW) observations of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is a key avenue to uncover the yet-unknown origin(s) of these extragalactic signals. In this proceeding, we discuss the need for precise localization to conduct MW studies. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Cherry Ng