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The radiative mechanism of coherent radio emission has remained an enigma since the discovery of pulsars, even the emergence of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which exhibit similarities to the single-pulse behavior of pulsars and have opened a…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio bursts characterized by millisecond durations, high Galactic latitude positions, and high dispersion measures. Very recently, the cosmological origin of FRB 150418 has been confirmed by \cite{kea16}, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Xue-Feng Wu , Song-Bo Zhang , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

A repeating source of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is recently discovered from a globular cluster of M81. Association to a globular cluster (or other old stellar systems) suggests that strongly magnetized neutron stars, which are the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Wenbin Lu , Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients that probe extreme astrophysical environments. Many FRBs exhibit multi-component structures, which encode information about their emission mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Jia-heng Zhang , Chen-Hui Niu , Yu-hao Zhu , Di Li , Yu Wang , Wei-yang Wang , Yi Feng , Xin-ming Li , Jia-rui Niu , Pei Wang , Yun-wei Yu , Yong-kun Zhang , Xiao-ping Zheng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious extragalactic radio signals. Revealing their origin is one of the central foci in modern astronomy. Previous studies suggest that occurrence rates of non-repeating and repeating FRBs could be…

Recently, a precise (sub-arcsecond) localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 has led to the discovery of persistent radio and optical counterparts, the identification of a host dwarf galaxy at a redshift of $z=0.193$, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 D. Xiao , Z. G. Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright milliseconds-duration radio bursts from cosmological distances. Despite intense observational and theoretical studies, their physical origin is still mysterious. One major obstacle is the lack of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-12 Yi Xing , Wenfei Yu , Zhen Yan , Xian Zhang , Bing Zhang

A few fast radio bursts' (FRBs) light-curves have exhibited large intrinsic modulations of their flux on extremely short ($t_{\rm r}\sim 10\mu$s) time scales, compared to pulse durations ($t_{\rm FRB}\sim1$ms). Light-curve variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar

The extreme, time-variable Faraday rotation observed in the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 and its associated persistent synchrotron source demonstrates that some FRBs originate in dense, dynamic and possibly relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 H. K. Vedantham , V. Ravi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are astronomical transients with millisecond timescales. Although most of the FRBs are not observed to repeat, a few of them are detected to repeat more than hundreds of times. There exist a large variety of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Bo Han Chen , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Bjorn Jasper R. Raquel , Yuri Uno , Seong Jin Kim , Tiger Y. -Y. Hsiao , Simon C. -C. Ho

The discovery of Persistent Radio Sources (PRSs) associated with three repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) has provided insight into the local environments of these FRBs. Here, we present deep radio observations of the fields surrounding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Yash Bhusare , Yogesh Maan , Ajay Kumar

FRB 180916 is an important repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source. Interestingly, the activity of FRB 180916 shows a well-regulated behavior, with a period of 16.35 days. The bursts are found to occur in a duty circle of about 5 days in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Nurimangul Nurmamat , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Abdusattar Kurban , Bing Li

Repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) can exhibit a wide range of burst repetition rates, from none to hundreds of bursts per hour. Here, we report the detection and characteristics of 60 bursts from the recently discovered FRB 20240114A,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Ajay Kumar , Yogesh Maan , Yash Bhusare

Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 20250316A, detected by CHIME on 2025 March 16 with a fluence of $1.7\pm0.1~\mathrm{Jy\,ms}$ and a dispersion measure of $161.3\pm0.4~\mathrm{pc\,cm^{-3}}$, ranks among the brightest extragalactic FRBs at $\sim 40$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Tao An , Ailing Wang , Yu-Chen Huang , Jia-Pei Feng , Yuanqi Liu , Zhongli Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are immensely energetic millisecond-duration radio pulses. Observations indicate that nearby FRBs can be produced by old stellar populations, as suggested by the localization of the repeating source FRB 20200120E in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-01 S. B. Zhang , J. S. Wang , X. Yang , Y. Li , J. J. Geng , Z. F. Tang , C. M. Chang , J. T. Luo , X. C. Wang , X. F. Wu , Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang

The total event number of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is accumulating rapidly with the improvement of existing radio telescopes and the completion of new facilities. Especially, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Di Xiao , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration signals which encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas distributions. Here we report…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several micro- to milliseconds and come from unidentified objects at cosmological distances, most of which are only seen once. Based on recently published data in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiang-Han Cui , Cheng-Min Zhang , Di Li , Jian-Wei Zhang , Bo Peng , Wei-Wei Zhu , Richard Strom , Shuang-Qiang Wang , Na Wang , Qing-Dong Wu , De-Hua Wang , Yi-Yan Yang

The spectra of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) are complex and time-variable, sometimes peaking within the observing band and showing a fractional emission bandwidth of about 10-30%. These spectral features may provide insight into the…

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