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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

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…

Some repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources show high burst rates, and the physical origin is still unknown. Outstandingly, the first repeater FRB 121102 appears extremely high burst rate with the maximum value reaching…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Qiao-Chu Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , F. Y. Wang , Kun Xu , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients with extremely high brightness temperatures at cosmological distances, and the physical origin and the radiation mechanism of FRBs are still unknown. The observed spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Yuan-Pei Yang

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

Fast radio bursts are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply radio luminosities orders of magnitude larger than any…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic, extremely short-lived bursts of radio flashes. Despite extensive research, the exact cause of these outbursts remains speculative. The high luminosity, short duration, and high dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 F. Aharonian , A. Archaryya , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa. Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de. Bony. de. Lavergne , J. Borowska , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , A. Brown , F. Brun , B. Bruno , C. Burger-Scheidlin , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , J. Damascene. Mbarubucyeye , J. de. Assis. Scarpin , A. Djannati-Ataï , J. Djuvsland , A. Dmytriiev , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , J. -P. Ernenwein , C. Escañuela. Nieves , M. Filipovic , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , S. Gabici , J. F. Glicenstein , J. Glombitza , G. Grolleron , B. Heß , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu. Huang , A. Jaitly , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyński , D. Kerszberg , R. Khatoon , B. Khélifi , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , A. Kundu , R. G. Lang , S. Le. Stum , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , A. Luashvili , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , R. Marx , A. Mehta , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , M. O. Moghadam , E. Moulin , M. de. Naurois , J. Niemiec , P. O'Brien , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de. Ona. Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , U. Pensec , S. Pita , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Ravikularaman , M. Regeard , O. Reimer , H. Ren , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , K. Sabri , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , J. Schäfer , F. Schüssler , H. M. Schutte , J. N. S. Shapopi , A. Sharma , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , M. Tsirou , C. van. Eldik , M. Vecchi , C. Venter , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , N. Żywucka

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), characterized by strong bursts of radiation intensity at radio wavelengths lasting on the order of a millisecond, have yet to be firmly associated with a family, or families, of astronomical sources. It follows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Martin Houde , Abhilash Mathews , Fereshteh Rajabi

We show that fast radio bursts arise from collisions between axion stars and neutron stars. The bursts are emitted in the atmosphere of the neutron stars. The observed frequencies of the bursts are given by the axion mass $m_a$ such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Iwazaki

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

The millisecond-duration radio flashes known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) represent an enigmatic astrophysical phenomenon. Recently, the sub-arcsecond localization (~ 100mas precision) of FRB121102 using the VLA has led to its unambiguous…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic radio transients with millisecond duration, whose physical origin is still unknown. Many models consider magnetars as possible FRB sources, supported by the observational association of FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Barbara Patricelli , Maria Grazia Bernardini , Matteo Ferro

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 are mysterious millisecond-duration transients prevalent in the radio sky. Rapid accumulation of data in recent years has facilitated an understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms of these events. Knowledge gained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Bing Zhang

How the event rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) evolves with redshift is a hot topic to explore their cosmological origin and the circum-burst environment. Particularly, it is urgent to know what the difference of event rates between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Q. Pan , X. Y. Du , Z. B. Zhang , Y. F. Huang , L. B. Li , G. A. Li

Fast radio bursts appear to exhibit large dispersion measures, typically exceeding any expected galactic interstellar contribution, especially along the moderate to high-galactic-latitude directions in which such events have been most often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Brian Dennison

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright milliseconds radio transients with large dispersion measures. Recently, FRB 200428 was detected in temporal coincidence with a hard X-ray flare from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154, which supports…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 F. Y. Wang , G. Q. Zhang , Z. G. Dai

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show a large value and complex variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs). The binary systems containing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and a neutron star (NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Rui-Nan Li , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Zhifu Gao , F. Y. Wang

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRB) has been extensively debated. Here we investigate FRB121102, detected at Arecibo telescope and remarkable for its unusually large spectral index. After extensive study we conclude that the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 S. R. Kulkarni , E. O. Ofek , J. D. Neill