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Recent observations of the periodic Fast Radio Burst source 180916.J0158+65 (FRB 180916) find small linear polarization position angle swings during and between bursts, with a burst activity window that becomes both narrower and earlier at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Dongzi Li , J. J. Zanazzi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) display a confounding variety of burst properties and host galaxy associations. Repeating FRBs offer insight into the FRB population by enabling spectral, temporal and polarimetric properties to be tracked over…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) represent one of the most exciting astrophysical discoveries of the recent past. The study of their low-frequency emission, which was only effectively picked up about ten years after their discovery, has helped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-10 Maura Pilia

Recently, CHIME detected periodicity in the bursting rate of the repeating FRB 180916.J0158+65. In a popular class of models, the fast radio bursts (FRBs) are created by giant magnetic flares of a hyper-active magnetar driven by fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Yuri Levin , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Ashley Bransgrove

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

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

We present Effelsberg 100-m telescope observations of the hyperactive repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20240110A, discovered by CHIME/FRB in January 2024. Using the Ultra BroadBand (UBB) receiver, spanning 1.3-6.0 GHz, we detected over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 P. Limaye , L. G. Spitler , N. Manaswini , J. Benáček , F. Eppel , M. Kadler , L. Nicotera , J. Wongphechauxsorn

We report the observations of the highly active FRb20201124A with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope at 550-750~MHz. These observations in the incoherent array mode simultaneously provided an arcsecond localization of bursts from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 V. R. Marthi , S. Bethapudi , R. A. Main , H. -H. Lin , L. G. Spitler , R. S. Wharton , D. Z. Li , T. G. Gautam , U. -L. Pen , G. H. Hilmarsson

The recent report of a period in the active repeating Fast Radio Burster 20201124A and of its spindown rate place bounds on the solid angle of its emission on the basis of energetics. The bound depends on the (unknown) efficiency of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-10 J. I. Katz

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients, some of which are associated with compact persistent radio sources (PRSs), hinting at a physical connection. While several models have been proposed to…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new kind of extragalactic radio transients. Some of them show repeating behaviors. Recent observations indicate that a few repeating FRBs (e.g., FRB 121102) present time--frequency downward drifting patterns…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with short durations and extremely high brightness temperatures, and their physical origins are still unknown. Recently, a repeating source, FRB 20200120E, was found in a globular cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Yuan-Pei Yang

FRB 180916 is a most intriguing source at 150 Mpc distance capable of producing repeating fast radio bursts with a periodic 16.35 day temporal pattern. We report on the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray observations of FRB 180916 obtained by AGILE and…

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…

Observation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are rising very quickly with the advent of specialised instruments and surveys, and it has recently been shown that some of them repeat quasi-periodically. In particular, evidence of a $P=16.35$ day…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Guillaume Voisin , Fabrice Mottez , Philippe Zarka

Fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) are luminous, rapidly evolving events with blue spectra, possibly powered by newborn magnetars and linked to fast radio bursts (FRBs). Given this potential connection, we conducted deep radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li , Yi-Xuan Shao , Ping Zhou , Pei Wang , Yun-Wei Yu , Zhen Yan , Di Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond duration transients observed in the radio band, with their origin and radiation mechanism remaining unclear to date. Growing evidence indicates that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

We report on the simultaneous monitoring of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 20240114A at 2.25 and 8.60~GHz, conducted 66 times between 2024 January 29 and 2025 February 15 with the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT). In about 180…

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…