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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seem to link them to soft gamma repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Giacomo Principe , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Michela Negro , Francesco Longo

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are astrophysical transients of currently unknown origin, and so far several events have been detected at extragalactic distances. The dispersion measure (DM) of the radio signal is a probe of the integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Lilow

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), like pulsars, display radio emission from compact regions such that they can be treated as point sources. As this radiation propagates through space, they encounter sources of lensing such as a gravitational field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Zarif Kader , Matt Dobbs , Calvin Leung , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Mawson W. Sammons

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extra-galactic radio transients which exhibit a distance-dependent dispersion of their signal, and thus can be used as cosmological probes. In this article we, for the first time, apply a model-independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Stefan Heimersheim , Nina S. Sartorio , Anastasia Fialkov , Duncan R. Lorimer

Fast radio burst (FRB) science primarily revolves around two facets: the origin of these bursts and their use in cosmological studies. This work follows from previous redshift-dispersion measure ($z$-DM) analyses in which we model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jordan Hoffmann , Clancy W. James , Marcin Glowacki , Jason X. Prochaska , Alexa C. Gordon , Adam T. Deller , Ryan M. Shannon , Stuart D. Ryder

We present the discovery of twelve thus far non-repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources, detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. These sources were selected from a database comprising of order…

Recently, CHIME/FRB project published its first fast radio burst (FRB) catalog (hereafter, Catalog 1), which totally contains 536 unique bursts. With the help of the latest set of FRBs in this large-size catalog, we aim to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Jianwei Zhang , Chengmin Zhang , Di Li , Wuming Yang , Xianghan Cui , ChangQing Ye , Dehua Wang , Yiyan Yang , Shaolan Bi , Xianfei Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of mysterious origin, with growing evidence linking at least some of them to magnetars. While FRBs are primarily observed in the radio band, their potential multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ke Bian , Can-Min Deng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio waves from the Universe. Even though more than 50 physical models have been proposed, the origin and physical mechanism of FRB emissions are still unknown. The classification of FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 Leah Ya-Ling Lin , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Bjorn Jasper Raquel , Simon C. -C. Ho , Bo-Han Chen , Seong Jin Kim , Chih-Teng Ling

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) have emerged as powerful probes of baryonic matter in the Universe, offering constraints on cosmological and feedback parameters through their extragalactic dispersion measure-redshift (DM$_\mathrm{exgal}$-$z$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Kritti Sharma , Vikram Ravi , Liam Connor , Elisabeth Krause , Pranjal R. S. , Dhayaa Anbajagane

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seems to link them to Soft Gamma Repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Giacomo Principe , Nicola Omodei , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Francesco Longo

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…

Multi-wavelength (MW) observations of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is a key avenue to uncover the yet-unknown origin(s) of these extragalactic signals. In this proceeding, we discuss the need for precise localization to conduct MW studies. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Cherry Ng

Here we present a catalogue of known Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources in the form of an online catalogue, FRBCAT. The catalogue includes information about the instrumentation used for the observations for each detected burst, the measured…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 E. Petroff , E. D. Barr , A. Jameson , E. F. Keane , M. Bailes , M. Kramer , V. Morello , D. Tabbara , W. van Straten

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients of micro-to-millisecond duration and unknown extragalactic origin. Central to the mystery of FRBs are their extremely high characteristic energies, which surpass the typical energies of…

Despite the first detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) being as recent as 2007, they have already been proven to be a fantastic tool as a unique cosmological probe. In this chapter, after a brief introduction to FRBs and how they are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 Marcin Glowacki , Khee-Gan Lee

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic millisecond-duration radio transients whose nature remains unknown. The advent of numerous facilities conducting dedicated FRB searches has dramatically revolutionised the field: hundreds of new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Inés Pastor-Marazuela

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond transient radio events with a high energy. By identifying the origin of the \textbf{burst}, it is possible to measure the redshift of the host galaxy, which can be used to constrain cosmological and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Thais Lemos , Rodrigo S. Gonçalves , Joel C. Carvalho , Jailson S. Alcaniz