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Fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) are luminous, rapidly evolving events with blue spectra, possibly powered by newborn magnetars and linked to fast radio bursts (FRBs). Given this potential connection, we conducted deep radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li , Yi-Xuan Shao , Ping Zhou , Pei Wang , Yun-Wei Yu , Zhen Yan , Di Li

Since their serendipitous discovery, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have garnered a great deal of attention from both observers and theorists. A new class of radio telescopes with wide fields of view have enabled a rapid accumulation of FRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Noah Pearson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Joel Meyers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short, intense extragalactic radio bursts of unknown origin. Recent polarimetric studies have shown that a noticeable fraction of the repeating FRBs display irregular, short-time variations of the Faraday…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Dongzi Li , Anna Bilous , Scott Ransom , Robert Main , Yuan-Pei Yang

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 intense, millisecond-duration radio transients that have recently been proposed to arise from coherent radiation mechanisms within the magnetosphere of neutron stars. Observations of repeating FRBs, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Gong-Yu Yao , Can-Min Deng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio bursts originating at cosmological distances. Only three repeating FRBs FRB 20121102A, FRB 20190520B and FRB 20201124A among $\sim$ 60 known repeating FRBs have circular polarization. We observed…

'Downwards drifting' structures observed in fast radio bursts (FRBs) could naturally arise from a screen occurring after a small initial dispersion measure region. The screen imprints temporally sharp but broadband structure on the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-30 Artem Tuntsov , Ue-Li Pen , Mark Walker

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sufficiently energetic to be detectable from luminosity distances up to at least seven billion parsecs (redshift $z > 1$). Probing the maximum energies and luminosities of FRBs constrains their emission…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients of extraordinary luminosity. Studying the diverse temporal and spectral behaviour recently observed in a number of FRBs may help determine the nature of the entire class. For…

There are striking phenomenological similarities between Fast Radio Bursts and lightning in the Earth's and planetary atmospheres. Both have very low duty factors, $\lesssim 10^{-8}$--$10^{-5}$ for FRB and (very roughly) $\sim 10^{-4}$ for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-03 J. I. Katz

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are transient sources that emit a single radio pulse with a duration of only a few milliseconds. Since the discovery of the first FRB in 2007, tens of similar events have been detected. However, their physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-25 B. Marcote , Z. Paragi

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

Fast radio bursts are mysterious transient sources likely located at cosmological distances. The derived brightness temperatures exceed by many orders of magnitude the self-absorption limit of incoherent synchrotron radiation, implying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Gustavo E. Romero , Maria Victoria del Valle , Florencia L. Vieyro

We investigate induced Compton/Brillouin scattering of electromagnetic waves in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma by verifying kinetic theory with Particle-in-Cell simulations. Applying this to fast radio bursts (FRBs) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Rei Nishiura , Shoma F. Kamijima , Kunihito Ioka

We study induced (stimulated) scattering of linearly polarized, strong electromagnetic waves in pair plasmas, which is crucial for understanding the propagation of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Magnetars are the most promising progenitors of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-20 Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are micro-to-millisecond duration radio transients that originate mostly from extragalactic distances. The emission mechanism responsible for these high luminosity, short duration transients remains debated. The…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic events of short-duration intense radio emission, the origin of which remains elusive till date. Polarization of the FRB signals carry information about the emission source as well as the…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration events detected from beyond the Milky Way. FRB emission characteristics favor highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars, as the sources, as evidenced by FRB-like bursts from a galactic…

The origin and phenomenology of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) remains unknown despite more than a decade of efforts. Though several models have been proposed to explain the observed data, none is able to explain alone the variety of events so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-26 Luciano Nicastro , Cristiano Guidorzi , Eliana Palazzi , Luca Zampieri , Massimo Turatto , Angela Gardini

We develop a model of the generation of coherent radio emission in the Crab pulsar, magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Emission is produced by a reconnection-generated beam of particles via a variant of Free Electron Laser (FEL)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Maxim Lyutikov