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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic transients with typical durations of milliseconds. FRBs have been shown, however, to fluctuate on a wide range of timescales: some show sub-microsecond sub-bursts while others last up to a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 M. P. Snelders , K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , Z. Bensellam , L. P. Zwaan , P. Chawla , O. S. Ould-Boukattine , F. Kirsten , J. T. Faber , V. Gajjar

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief flashes of emission detectable to cosmological distances. Cosmology applications rely on an understanding of how the detected sample relates to the underlying population. To this end we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 E. F. Keane , D. J. McKenna

We show that old isolated neutron stars in groups and clusters of galaxies experiencing a Quark-Nova phase (QN: an explosive transition to a quark star) may be the source of FRBs. Each of the millions of fragments of the ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Rachid Ouyed , Denis Leahy , Nico Koning

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

Recent studies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have led to many theories associating them with young neutron stars. If this is the case, then the presence of supernova ejecta and stellar winds provide a changing dispersion measure (DM) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Anthony L. Piro , B. M. Gaensler

The detection of a fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 200428, coincident with an X-ray burst (XRB) from the Galactic magnetar soft gamma repeater (SGR) SGR J1935+2154 suggests that magnetars can produce FRBs. Many XRBs have been detected from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-23 Connery J. Chen , Bing Zhang

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 mysterious radio transients whose physical origin is still unknown. Within a few astronomical units near an FRB source, the electric field of the electromagnetic wave is so large that the electron oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-01 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies is believed to be a significant reservoir of baryons, yet its total mass remains poorly constrained. We present a novel approach to probe the CGM of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using fast…

FRB 121102 is the only known repeating fast radio burst source. Here we analyze a wide-frequency-range (1-8 GHz) sample of high-signal-to-noise, coherently dedispersed bursts detected using the Arecibo and Green Bank telescopes. These…

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), especially those from repeating sources, exhibit a rich variety of morphologies in their dynamic spectra (or waterfalls). Characterizing these morphologies and spectro-temporal properties is a key strategy in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Mohammed A. Chamma , Victor Pop , Fereshteh Rajabi

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 use the measured scattering timescales of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from the CHIME catalog to derive an upper limit on the magnetic field on sub-kpc scales in the intergalactic medium (IGM). A nonmagnetized, photoionized IGM is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

Theory and observations reveal that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and the cosmic web at high redshifts are multiphase, with small clouds of cold gas embedded in a hot, diffuse medium. A proposed mechanism is `shattering' of large,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-11 Zhiyuan Yao , Nir Mandelker , S. Peng Oh , Han Aung , Avishai Dekel

Fast Radios Bursts (FRBs) show large dispersion measures (DMs), suggesting an extragalactic location. We analyze the DMs of the 11 known FRBs in detail and identify steps as integer multiples of half the lowest DM found, 187.5cm$^{-3}$ pc,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-31 Michael Hippke , Wilfried F. Domainko , John G. Learned

Fast radio bursts appear to exhibit large dispersion measures, typically exceeding any expected galactic interstellar contribution, especially along the moderate to high-galactic-latitude directions in which such events have been most often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Brian Dennison

Combining high time and frequency resolution full-polarisation spectra of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with knowledge of their host galaxy properties provides an opportunity to study both the emission mechanism generating them and the impact of…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio transients of extragalactic origin lasting for about a few to several milli-seconds. We have analyzed both non-CHIME and CHIME FRB data. To circumvent the absence of measured fluence and flux density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Nidhi Saini , Patrick Das Gupta

The recently discovered fast radio bursts (FRBs), presumably of extra-galactic origin, have the potential to become a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We point out a few such potential applications. We provide expressions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Z. Zheng , E. O. Ofek , S. R. Kulkarni , J. D. Neill , M. Juric