The physics of fast radio bursts

B Zhang - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Fast radio bursts (FRBs), millisecond-duration bursts prevailing in the radio sky, are the
latest large puzzle in the Universe and have been a subject of intense observational and …

Fast radio bursts at the dawn of the 2020s

E Petroff, JWT Hessels, DR Lorimer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2022 - Springer
Since the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and their confirmation as an
abundant extragalactic population in 2013, the study of these sources has expanded at an …

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source

CH Niu, K Aggarwal, D Li, X Zhang, S Chatterjee… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon
content of the intergalactic medium, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic …

A fast radio burst associated with a Galactic magnetar

CD Bochenek, V Ravi, KV Belov, G Hallinan, J Kocz… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Since their discovery in 2007, much effort has been devoted to uncovering the sources of the
extragalactic, millisecond-duration fast radio bursts (FRBs). A class of neutron stars known …

A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetars are highly magnetized young neutron stars that occasionally produce enormous
bursts and flares of X-rays and γ-rays. Of the approximately thirty magnetars currently known …

A repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster

F Kirsten, B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are flashes of unknown physical origin. The majority of FRBs have
been seen only once, although some are known to generate multiple flashes,. Many models …

CHIME/FRB discovery of 25 repeating fast radio burst sources

BC Andersen, K Bandura, M Bhardwaj… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of 25 new repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources found among
CHIME/FRB events detected between 2019 September 30 and 2021 May 1. The sources …

A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels, SP Tendulkar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes,. Their physical origin
remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources …

The demographics, stellar populations, and star formation histories of fast radio burst host galaxies: implications for the progenitors

AC Gordon, W Fong, CD Kilpatrick… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive catalog of observations and stellar population properties for
23 highly secure host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Our sample comprises 6 …

Fast radio bursts: an extragalactic enigma

JM Cordes, S Chatterjee - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We summarize our understanding of millisecond radio bursts from an extragalactic
population of sources. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) occur at an extraordinary rate, thousands per …