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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most tantalizing mysteries of the radio sky; their progenitors and origins remain unknown and until now no rapid multiwavelength follow-up of an FRB has been possible. New instrumentation has…

The current modelling of single microlensing light curves neglects the possibility that only a fraction of the light is due to the lensed star, the remaining being due to a close, unresolved blend, which may be related or unrelated to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Przemyslaw Wozniak , Bohdan Paczynski

We report a new Fast Radio Burst (FRB) discovered in real-time as part of the UTMOST project at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope (MOST). FRB170827 is the first detected with our low-latency ($< 24$ s),…

Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is an extremely energetic cosmic phenomenon of short duration. Discovered only recently and with its origin still unknown, FRBs have already started to play a significant role in studying the distribution and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Xuerong Guo , Han Wang , Yifan Xiao , Huaxi Chen , Yinan Ke , ChenChen Miao , Pei Wang , Di Li , Chenwu Jin , Ling He , Yi Feng , Yongkun Zhang , Jiaying Xu , Guangyong Chen

We qualitatively study the effects of gravitational microlensing on our view of unresolved extragalactic star formation regions. Using a general gravitational microlensing configuration, we perform a number of simulations that reveal that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rodrigo Gil-Merino , Geraint F. Lewis

Strongly lensed gravitational waves may pass through the stellar field of a lensing galaxy with additional modulations (on both phase and amplitude) due to gravitational microlensing effect of stars/remnants near the line of sight. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Zhaoqi Su , Xikai Shan , Zhenwei Lyu , Junyao Zhang , Yebin Liu , Shude Mao , Huan Yang

We present a quantitative analysis of the effect of microlensing caused by random motion of individual stars in the galaxy which is lensing a background quasar. We calculate a large number of magnification patterns for positions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Joachim Wambsganss , Tomislav Kundic

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio pulses whose origins are unknown. To date, only one (FRB 121102) out of several dozen has been seen to repeat, though the extent to which it is exceptional remains unclear. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Liam Connor , Emily Petroff

We report on the discovery and localization of fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the MeerTRAP project, a commensal fast radio transient-detection programme at MeerKAT in South Africa. Our hybrid approach combines a coherent search with an…

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) offer unique probes of diverse cosmological phenomena due to their characteristic properties, including short duration timescale and high dispersion measure. This study investigates two distinct theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic, bright pulses of emission at radio frequency with milliseconds duration. Observationally, FRBs can be divided into two classes, repeating FRBs and non-repeating FRBs. At present, twenty repeating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 G. Q. Zhang , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

Two extreme events in the universe, fast radio bursts (FRBs) and cosmic rays (CRs), could be correlated, where FRBs with extreme field strength near their sources may contribute to CRs. This study investigates localized particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Lin Yu , Tianxing Hu , Zhiyu Lei , Xiangyan An , Dong Wu , Suming Weng , Min Chen , Jie Zhang , Zhengming Sheng

The intervening large--scale structure distorts cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies via gravitational lensing. The same large--scale structure, traced by dusty star--forming galaxies, also induces anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yong-Seon Song , Asantha Cooray , Lloyd Knox , Matias Zaldarriaga

We discuss the gravitational lensing of gravitational wave signals from coalescing binaries. We delineate the regime where wave effects are significant from the regime where geometric limit can be used. Further, we focus on the effect of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Ashish Kumar Meena , J S Bagla

In the literature, compact binary coalescences (CBCs) have been proposed as one of the main scenarios to explain the origin of some non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). The large discrepancy between the FRB and CBC event rate densities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Min-Hao Wang , Shun-Ke Ai , Zheng-Xiang Li , Nan Xing , He Gao , Bing Zhang

We propose a new model of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) based on stellar mass black hole-massive star binaries. We argue that the inhomogeneity of the circumstellar materials or/and the time varying wind activities of the stellar companion will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Shu-Xu Yi , K. S. Cheng , Rui Luo

The dispersion of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) can serve as a powerful probe of the diffuse plasma between and surrounding galaxies, which contains most of the Universe's baryons. By cross-correlating the dispersion of background…

Fast radio bursts (FRB) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultra-relativistic magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine PIC simulation results for the synchrotron maser with the dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Brian D. Metzger , Ben Margalit , Lorenzo Sironi