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: 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 …

Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger

BP Abbott - 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
On 2017 August 17 a binary neutron star coalescence candidate (later designated
GW170817) with merger time 12: 41: 04 UTC was observed through gravitational waves by …

A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

KW Bannister, AT Deller, C Phillips, JP Macquart… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some
are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Nonrepeating FRB observations have had …

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 …

A measurement of hubble's constant using fast radio bursts

CW James, EM Ghosh, JX Prochaska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We constrain the Hubble constant H 0 using Fast Radio Burst (FRB) observations from the
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murriyang (Parkes) radio …

The dispersion–brightness relation for fast radio bursts from a wide-field survey

RM Shannon, JP Macquart, KW Bannister, RD Ekers… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Despite considerable efforts over the past decade, only 34 fast radio bursts—intense bursts
of radio emission from beyond our Galaxy—have been reported,. Attempts to understand the …

The CHIME fast radio burst project: system overview

M Amiri, K Bandura, P Berger, M Bhardwaj… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Map** Experiment (CHIME) is a novel transit
radio telescope operating across the 400–800 MHz band. CHIME is composed of four 20 m× …

Fundamental physics with the square kilometre array

A Weltman, P Bull, S Camera, K Kelley… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to
operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity …

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts–II. New FRB discoveries and their follow-up

S Bhandari, EF Keane, ED Barr… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of four Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in the ongoing SUrvey for Pulsars
and Extragalactic Radio Bursts at the Parkes Radio Telescope: FRBs 150610, 151206 …