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 …

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 …

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 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 …

A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host

S Chatterjee, CJ Law, RS Wharton, S Burke-Spolaor… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts, are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations
of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply radio …

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 …

A repeating fast radio burst

LG Spitler, P Scholz, JWT Hessels, S Bogdanov… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration astronomical radio pulses of unknown physical
origin that appear to come from extragalactic distances,,,,,,,. Previous follow-up observations …

The host galaxy and redshift of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102

SP Tendulkar, CG Bassa, JM Cordes… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The precise localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB 121102) has provided the first
unambiguous association (chance coincidence probability p≲ 3× 10− 4) of an FRB with an …

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 …