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We use semi-analytic techniques to evaluate the burst sensitivity of designs for the EXIST hard X-ray survey mission. Applying these techniques to the mission design proposed for the Beyond Einstein program, we find that with its very large…

Pulsar surveys with modern radio telescopes are becoming increasingly computationally demanding. This is particularly true for wide field-of-view pulsar surveys with radio interferometers, and those conducted in real or quasi-real time.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Yunpeng Men , Ewan Barr , C. J. Clark , Emma Carli , Gregory Desvignes

In 2007, a very bright radio pulse was identified in the archival data of the Parkes Telescope in Australia, marking the beginning of a new research branch in astrophysics. In 2013, this kind of millisecond bursts with extremely high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-08 Di Xiao , Fayin Wang , Zigao Dai

The majority of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are poorly localised, hindering their potential scientific yield as galactic, intergalactic, and cosmological probes. LOFT-e, a digital backend for the U.K.'s e-MERLIN seven-telescope interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 C. R. H. Walker , R. P. Breton , P. A. Harrison , A. Holloway , M. J. Keith , M. Kramer , M. Malenta , M. B. Mickaliger , J. Roy , T. W. Scragg , B. W. Stappers

Petabytes of archival high time resolution observations have been captured with the Murchison Widefield Array. The search for Fast Radio Bursts within these using established software has been limited by its inability to scale on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Cristian Di Pietrantonio , Marcin Sokolowski , Christopher Harris , Daniel Price , Randall Wayth

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 recently discovered extra-galactic radio transients which are now used as novel cosmological probes. We show how the Bursts' Dispersion Measure can model-independently probe the history of Hydrogen reionization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Stefan Heimersheim

The exponential growth of data from modern radio telescopes presents a significant challenge to traditional single-pulse search algorithms, which are computationally intensive and prone to high false-positive rates due to Radio Frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Bin Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Xiaoyao Xie , Shanping You , Xuhong Yu , Qiuhua Li , Hongwei Li , Shaowen Du , Chenchen Miao , Dengke Zhou , Jianhua Fang , Jiafu Wu , Pei Wang , Di Li

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

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

We propose measuring the arrival time difference of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) along two adjacent sightlines as a new probe to dark matter substructures on scales down to $\sim 1\,$AU. We discuss two observational scenarios in which it may be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Huangyu Xiao , Liang Dai , Matthew McQuinn

Some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to be caused by the mergers of binary neutron stars which may sometimes produce massive neutron star remnants capable of producing extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs). We conducted a deep…

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

The ESA M3 candidate mission LOFT (Large Observatory For x-ray Timing) has been designed to study strong gravitational fields by observing compact objects, such as black-hole binaries or neutron-star systems and supermassive black-holes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 S. Schanne , D. Götz , H. Le Provost , F. Château , E. Bozzo , S. Brandt

Traditionally, fast radio transient searches are conducted on dedispersed time series using thresholding techniques based on the statistical properties of the data. However, peaks in dedispersed time series do not directly provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Sergio Belmonte Diaz , Rene P. Breton , Zafiirah Hosenie , Ben W. Stappers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a type of highly-polarized, millisecond-duration electromagnetic pulses in the radio band, which are mostly produced at cosmological distances. These properties provide a natural laboratory for testing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

Radio interferometers have the ability to precisely localize and better characterize the properties of sources. This ability is having a powerful impact on the study of fast radio transients, where a few milliseconds of data is enough to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 C. J. Law , G. C. Bower , S. Burke-Spolaor , B. J. Butler , P. Demorest , A. Halle , S. Khudikyan , T. J. W. Lazio , M. Pokorny , J. Robnett , M. Rupen

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs), highly energetic, millisecond-duration radio pulses originating from beyond our galaxy, remains unknown. Observationally, FRBs are classified as non-repeating or repeating, however, this…

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

FRB 121102, the only repeating fast radio burst (FRB) known to date, was discovered at 1.4 GHz and shortly after the discovery of its repeating nature, detected up to 2.4 GHz. Here we present three bursts detected with the 100-m Effelsberg…