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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic radio bursts that typically last for milliseconds. They are mostly of extragalactic origin, but the progenitors, trigger mechanisms and radiation processes are still largely unknown. Here we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Nurimangul Nurmamat , Yong-Feng Huang , Xiao-Fei Dong , Chen-Ran Hu , Orkash Amat , Ze-Cheng Zou , Abdusattar Kurban , Jin-Jun Geng , Chen Deng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious transient phenomena. The study of repeating FRBs may provide useful information about their nature due to their redetectability. The two most famous repeating sources are FRBs 121102 and 180916, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Abdusattar Kurban , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Bing Li , Fan Xu , Xu Wang , Xia Zhou , Ali Esamdin , Na Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients of unknown origin. Rotation measures (RMs) probe their local magneto-ionic environments and provide important clues to their nature. While RM variability has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Ye Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio signals that last milliseconds. They originate from cosmological distances and have relatively high dispersion measures (DMs), making them being excellent distance indicators. However, the origins of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenqi Ma , Zhifu Gao , Biaopeng Li , Chenhui Niu , Jumei Yao , Fayin Wang

The puzzling mechanism of coherent radio emission remains unknown, but fortunately, repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a precious opportunity, with extremely bright subpulses created in a clear and vacuum-like pulsar magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Renxin Xu , Weiyang Wang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright and short radio flashes of cosmological origin. Although a great number of FRBs were detected in the last two decades, their progenitors and the physical processes that create them are unknown. In recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Dotan Gazith , Barak Zackay

Among the thousands of observed fast radio bursts (FRBs), a few sources exhibit exceptionally high burst activity observable by many telescopes across a broad range of radio frequencies. Almost all of these highly active repeaters have been…

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has remained a mystery up to now. There are two kinds of process invoking neutron stars as an origin of FRBs, namely inner-driven starquakes and outer-driven collisions with interstellar objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Yi-Nan Chen , Yong-Kun Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses occurring at cosmological distances with a mysterious origin. Observations show that at least some FRBs are produced by magnetars. All magnetar-powered FRB models require some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Q. Wu , F. Y. Wang , Z. Y. Zhao , P. Wang , H. Xu , Y. K. Zhang , D. J. Zhou , J. R. Niu , W. Y. Wang , S. X. Yi , Z. Q. Hua , S. B. Zhang , J. L. Han , W. W. Zhu , K. J. Lee , D. Li , X. F. Wu , Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered class of GHz-band, ms-duration, Jy-level-flux astrophysical transients, which origin is still a mystery. Exploring their gamma-ray counterpart is crucial for constraining their origin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 G. Principe , L. Di Venere , M. Negro , N. Di Lalla , N. Omodei , R. Di Tria , M. N. Mazziotta , F. Longo

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic radio pulses from cosmological origins. Despite an abundance of detections, their nature remains elusive. At least a subset of FRBs is expected to repeat, as the daily FRB rate surpasses that of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Julian B. Muñoz , Vikram Ravi , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious radio transients with uncertain origins and environments. Recent studies suggest that some active FRBs may originate from compact objects in binary systems. In this work, we develop a unified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Ke Bian , Can-Min Deng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extra-galactic sources with unknown physical mechanisms. They emit millisecond-duration radio pulses with isotropic equivalent energy of $10^{36}\sim10^{41}$ ergs. This corresponds to a brightness temperature of…

We model the sample of fast radio bursts (FRB), including the newly discovered CHIME repeaters, using the synchrotron blast wave model of Metzger, Margalit & Sironi (2019). This model postulates that FRBs are precursor radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger , Lorenzo Sironi

Searches for fast radio bursts (FRBs) are underway at a growing number of radio telescopes worldwide. The sample size is now sufficient to enable many investigations into the population properties. As such, understanding the true…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 E. F. Keane , C. R. H. Walker

We detail a new fast radio burst (FRB) survey with the Molonglo Radio Telescope, in which six FRBs were detected between June 2017 and December 2018. By using a real-time FRB detection system, we captured raw voltages for five of the six…

The study of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is of great importance, and is a topic that has been extensively researched, particularly in recent years. While the extreme nature of FRBs can serve as a tool for researchers to probe the intergalactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 Apostolos Spanakis-Misirlis , Cameron L. Van Eck

The production mechanism of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still a mystery, and correlations between burst occurrence times and energies may provide important clues to elucidate it. While time correlation studies of FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Tomonori Totani , Yuya Tsuzuki

The radiation physics of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains enigmatic. Motivated by the observed narrow-banded emission spectrum and ambiguous fringe pattern of the spectral peak frequency ($\nu_{\rm pk}$) distribution of some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Xiao Li , Fen Lyu , Hai Ming Zhang , Can-Min Deng , En-Wei Liang

Since the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and their confirmation as an abundant extragalactic population in 2013, the study of these sources has expanded at an incredible rate. In our 2019 review on the subject we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 E. Petroff , J. W. T. Hessels , D. R. Lorimer