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Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense magnetic fields. Many attributes of magnetars remain poorly understood: spin-down glitches or the…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short pulses observed in radio frequencies usually originating from cosmological distances. The discovery of FRB 200428 and its X-ray counterpart from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 suggests that at least…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-08 Mingyu Ge , Yuan-Pei Yang , Fangjun Lu , Shiqi Zhou , Long Ji , Shuangnan Zhang , Bing Zhang , Liang Zhang , Pei Wang , Kejia Lee , Weiwei Zhu , Jian Li , Xian Hou , Qiao-Chu Li

During the 2022 outburst of SGR 1935+2154, a Fast-Radio-Burst-like event (FRB 20221014A) and X-ray activities occurred between two spin-up glitches, suggesting these glitches may connect to multiwavelength phenomenology. However, the…

A luminous radio burst was recently detected in temporal coincidence with a hard X-ray flare from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 with a time and frequency structure consistent with cosmological fast radio bursts (FRB) and a fluence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Ben Margalit , Paz Beniamini , Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger

Magnetars are young, magnetically-powered neutron stars possessing the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely intense millisecond-long radio pulses of primarily extragalactic origin, and a leading…

The recent discovery of a millisecond radio burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 has initiated an intense discussion about the connection between magnetars and fast radio bursts (FRBs). Although some properties of the radio burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-12 A. K. H. Kong , K. L. Li , S. Kim , C. Y. Hui

Recently, a fast radio burst (FRB)-like event is found to be associated with a Galactic magnetar, SGR 1935+2154, accompanied by an X-ray burst. We find this radio burst challenges the typical emission mechanisms involving magnetars, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-27 Jie-Shuang Wang

Fast radio bursts are bright, millisecond-scale radio flashes of yet unknown physical origin. Recently, their extragalactic nature has been demonstrated and an increasing number of the sources have been found to repeat. Young, highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 A. Ridnaia , D. Svinkin , D. Frederiks , A. Bykov , S. Popov , R. Aptekar , S. Golenetskii , A. Lysenko , A. Tsvetkova , M. Ulanov , T. Cline

Fast radio bursts (FRB) are enigmatic powerful single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds and high brightness temperatures suggesting coherent emission mechanism. For the time being a number of extragalactic FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 D. Kostunin , H. Ashkar , F. Schüssler , G. Rowell

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond-duration radio transients of unknown origin observed at extragalactic distances. It has been long speculated that magnetars are the engine powering repeating bursts from FRB sources, but…

The most common form of magnetar activity is short X-ray bursts, with durations from milliseconds to seconds, and luminosities ranging from $10^{36}$ to $10^{43}\ {\rm erg}\,{\rm s}^{-1}$. Recently, an X-ray burst from the galactic magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-02 Yajie Yuan , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Alexander Y. Chen , Yuri Levin , Elias R. Most , Alexander A. Philippov

The recent discovery of a Galactic fast radio burst (FRB) occurring simultaneously with an X-ray burst (XRB) from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 implies that at least some FRBs arise from magnetar activities. We propose that FRBs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

Highly magnetized neutron stars are a source of extreme transients observed in different bands, like the fast radio burst (FRB) and associated hard X-ray burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154. The origin of such outbursts, hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-07 J. F. Mahlmann

Since their discovery in 2007, much effort has been devoted to uncovering the sources of the extragalactic, millisecond-duration fast radio bursts (FRBs). A class of neutron star known as magnetars is a leading candidate source of FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Christopher D. Bochenek , Vikram Ravi , Konstantin V. Belov , Gregg Hallinan , Jonathon Kocz , Shri R. Kulkarni , Dan L. McKenna

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

Recently, one fast radio burst, FRB 200428, was detected from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 during one X-ray burst. This suggests that magnetars can make FRBs. On the other hand, the majority of X-ray bursts from SGR J1935+2154 are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Bing Zhang

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

The megajansky radio burst, FRB 20200428, and other bright radio bursts detected from the Galactic source SGR J1935+2154 suggest that magnetars can make fast radio bursts (FRBs), but the emission site and mechanism of FRB-like bursts are…

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