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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

Nowadays, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been a promising probe for astronomy and cosmology. However, it is not easy to identify the redshifts of FRBs to date. Thus, no sufficient actual FRBs with identified redshifts can be used to study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Da-Chun Qiang , Hao Wei

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most energetic and enigmatic transients in the radio sky, with mounting evidence suggesting newborn, highly magnetized neutron stars formed in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) as their sources. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Wanqing Liu , Mohit Bhardwaj , Ben Margalit

In 2007 we were part of a team that discovered the so-called ``Lorimer Burst'', the first example of a new class of objects now known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). These enigmatic events are only a few ms in duration and occur at random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Duncan R. Lorimer , Maura A. McLaughlin , Matthew Bailes

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

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

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 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 mysterious bursts in the millisecond timescale at radio wavelengths. Currently, there is little understanding about the classification of repeating FRBs, based on difference in physics, which is of great…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Bjorn Jasper R. Raquel , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Bo Han Chen , Yuri Uno , Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao , Seong Jin Kim , Simon C. -C. Ho

Recently, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have become a thriving field in astronomy and cosmology. Due to their extragalactic and cosmological origin, they are useful to study the cosmic expansion and the intergalactic medium (IGM). In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Han-Yue Guo , Hao Wei

The population of fast radio bursts (FRBs) will continue to diverge into two groups depending on their method of discovery: those which can be localised, and those which cannot. Events potentially less useful for astronomical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 C. R. H. Walker , Y. -Z. Ma , R. P. Breton

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic millisecond-duration astrophysical phenomena typically categorized as repeaters or non-repeaters. However, observational limitations may result in misclassifications, potentially leading to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Da-Chun Qiang , Jie Zheng , Zhi-Qiang You , Sheng Yang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes. Their physical origin remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources exhibit repeat bursts. Though over a hundred FRB sources…

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

Ephemeral Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) must be powered by some of the most energetic processes in the Universe. That makes them highly interesting in their own right and as precise probes for estimating cosmological parameters. This field thus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-03 Kaustubh Rajwade , Joeri van Leeuwen

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the first cosmological radio sources that vary on millisecond timescales, which makes them a unique probe of the Universe. Many proposed applications of FRBs require associated redshifts. These can only be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Joscha N. Jahns , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker , Carlton M. Baugh

The physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still unknown. Multiwavelength and polarization observations of an FRB source would be helpful to diagnose its progenitor and environment. So far only the first repeating source FRB 121102…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yuan-Pei Yang , Qiao-Chu Li , Bing Zhang

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

If a small fraction of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), as recently suggested by Zhang, the combination of redshift measurements of GRBs and dispersion measure (DM) measurements of FRBs opens a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Wei Deng , Bing Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration transient events that are typically observed at radio wavelengths and cosmological distances but their origin remains unclear. Furthermore, most FRB origin models are related to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-24 Yu-Hao Zhu , Chen-Hui Niu , Xiang-Han Cui , Di Li , Yi-Feng , Chao-Wei Tsai , Pei Wang , Yong-Kun Zhang , Fanyi Meng , Zheng Zheng