The physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts

B Zhang - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts are mysterious millisecond-duration transients prevalent in the radio sky.
Rapid accumulation of data in recent years has facilitated an understanding of the …

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 …

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 …

A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source

D Li, P Wang, WW Zhu, B Zhang, XX Zhang, R Duan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The event rate, energy distribution and time-domain behaviour of repeating fast radio bursts
(FRBs) contain essential information regarding their physical nature and central engine …

Fast radio bursts as synchrotron maser emission from decelerating relativistic blast waves

BD Metzger, B Margalit, L Sironi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultrarelativistic
magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine …

A living theory catalogue for fast radio bursts

E Platts, A Weltman, A Walters, SP Tendulkar… - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
At present, we have almost as many theories to explain Fast Radio Bursts as we have Fast
Radio Bursts observed. This landscape will be changing rapidly with CHIME/FRB, recently …

A new electron-density model for estimation of pulsar and FRB distances

JM Yao, RN Manchester, N Wang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new model for the distribution of free electrons in the Galaxy, the Magellanic
Clouds, and the intergalactic medium (IGM) that can be used to estimate distances to real or …

Fast radio bursts

E Petroff, JWT Hessels, DR Lorimer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2019 - Springer
The discovery of radio pulsars over a half century ago was a seminal moment in astronomy.
It demonstrated the existence of neutron stars, gave a powerful observational tool to study …

An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102

D Michilli, A Seymour, JWT Hessels, LG Spitler… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration, extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical
origin,,. The only known repeating fast radio burst source,,—FRB 121102—has been …

Possible periodic activity in the repeating FRB 121102

KM Rajwade, MB Mickaliger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The discovery that at least some Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) repeat has ruled out cataclysmic
events as the progenitors of these particular bursts. FRB 121102 is the most well-studied …