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Axions are one of the most promising candidates of dark matter. The axions have been shown to form miniclusters with masses $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ and to become dominant component of dark matter. Some of the axion miniclusters condense to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Aiichi Iwazaki

We have proposed a generation mechanism of non repeating ( repeating ) fast radio bursts: They arise by axion star collisions with neutron stars ( accretion disks of galactic black holes ). The axion star as coherent state of axions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-30 Aiichi Iwazaki

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been found in great numbers, but the physical mechanism of these sources is still a mystery. The redshift evolutions of the FRB energy distribution function and the volumetric rate shed light on the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jia-Ming Zou , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still a mystery. One model proposed to interpret the only known repeating object, FRB 121102, is that the radio emission is generated from asteroids colliding with a highly magnetized neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Rebecca G. Martin , Bing Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond bursts of radio radiation at frequencies of about 1 GHz, recently discovered in pulsar surveys. They have not yet been definitively identified with any other astronomical object or phenomenon. The bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-10 J. I. Katz

Repeating and apparently non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRB) differ by orders of magnitude in duty factors, energy and rotation measure. Extensive monitoring of apparently non-repeating FRB has failed to find any repetitions. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-30 J. I. Katz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration signals that are highly dispersed at distant galaxies. However, the physical origin of FRBs is still unknown. Coherent curvature emission by bunches, e.g., powered by starquakes, has already…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 Wei-Yang Wang , Jin-Chen Jiang , Jiguang Lu , Heng Xu , Jiangwei Xu , Kejia Lee , Jifeng Liu , Renxin Xu

Cosmological GRBs are discussed with an emphasis on their plausible connection with black holes. GRBs can be triggered by collapse of stellar-mass objects that leads to formation of a black hole and a transient debris disk with a huge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio bursts characterized by millisecond durations, high Galactic latitude positions, and high dispersion measures. Very recently, the cosmological origin of FRB 150418 has been confirmed by \cite{kea16}, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Xue-Feng Wu , Song-Bo Zhang , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are isolated, $\ms$ radio pulses with dispersion measure (DM) of order $10^3\DMunit$. Galactic candidates for the DM of high latitude bursts detected at $\GHz$ frequencies are easily dismissed. DM from bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Jing Luan , Peter Goldreich

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), millisecond-duration bursts prevailing in the radio sky, are the latest big puzzle in the universe and have been a subject of intense observational and theoretical investigations in recent years. The rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-05 Bing Zhang

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 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 origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains mysterious. Recently, the only repeating FRB source, FRB 121102, was reported to possess an extremely large and variable rotation measure (RM). The inferred magnetic field strength in the burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, millisecond-duration transients that offer great potential for probing the universe, yet their physical origins remain unclear. The dispersion measure (DM) and scattering time ($\tau$) distributions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely powerful sources of radio waves observed at cosmological distances. We use a sophisticated model of FRB observations -- presented in detail in a companion paper -- to fit FRB population parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 C. W. James , J. X. Prochaska , J. -P. Macquart , F. North-Hickey , K. W. Bannister , A. Dunning

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are pulsed radio signals with a duration of milliseconds and a large dispersion measure (DM). Recent observations indicate that FRB 180916 and FRB 121102 show periodic activities. Some theoretical models have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-11 Y. J. Wei , Z. Y. Zhao , F. Y. Wang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transient events, a subset of which have been localized to their host galaxies. Their high dispersion measures offer valuable insights into the ionized plasma along their line of sight, enabling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for $\sim $ few milli-seconds and, hence, are likely to arise from the gravitational collapse of supra-massive, spinning neutron stars after they lose the centrifugal support (Falcke \& Rezzolla 2014). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Patrick Das Gupta , Nidhi Saini

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio events with millisecond-scale durations, and debated origins. Collisions between planetesimals and neutron stars have been proposed as a mechanism to produce FRBs; the planetesimal strength, size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-15 Dang Pham , Matthew J. Hopkins , Chris Lintott , Michele T. Bannister , Hanno Rein