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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The science case for LIGO-India

M Saleem, J Rana, V Gayathri… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The global network of gravitational-wave detectors has completed three observing runs
with∼ 50 detections of merging compact binaries. A third LIGO detector, with comparable …

Fast radio burst 121102 pulse detection and periodicity: a machine learning approach

YG Zhang, V Gajjar, G Foster, A Siemion… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the detection of 72 new pulses from the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 in
Breakthrough Listen C-band (4–8 GHz) observations at the Green Bank Telescope. The new …

An assessment of the association between a fast radio burst and binary neutron star merger

A Moroianu, L Wen, CW James, S Ai, M Kovalam… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond-duration radio bursts at cosmological
distances. While young magnetars are the leading source candidate, recent observations …

Fast radio bursts from magnetars born in binary neutron star mergers and accretion induced collapse

B Margalit, E Berger, BD Metzger - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently born magnetars are promising candidates for the engines powering fast radio
bursts (FRBs). The focus thus far has been placed on millisecond magnetars born in rare …

Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

Chime/Frb Collaboration, BC Andersen, K Bandura… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration flashes of radio waves that are visible at
distances of billions of light years. The nature of their progenitors and their emission …

On the FRB luminosity function––II. Event rate density

R Luo, Y Men, K Lee, W Wang… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The luminosity function of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), defined as the event rate per unit
cosmic co-moving volume per unit luminosity, may help to reveal the possible origins of …