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 …

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 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 …

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× …

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 …

Unintended electromagnetic radiation from Starlink satellites detected with LOFAR between 110 and 188 MHz

F Di Vruno, B Winkel, CG Bassa, GIG Józsa… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We report on observations of 68 satellites belonging to the SpaceX Starlink constellation
with the LOFAR radio telescope. Radiation associated with Starlink satellites was detected …

Five new fast radio bursts from the HTRU high-latitude survey at Parkes: first evidence for two-component bursts

DJ Champion, E Petroff, M Kramer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The detection of five new fast radio bursts (FRBs) found in the 1.4-GHz High Time
Resolution Universe high-latitude survey at Parkes, is presented. The rate implied is 7 (95 …

Supergiant pulses from extragalactic neutron stars

JM Cordes, I Wasserman - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We consider radio bursts that originate from extragalactic neutron stars (NSs) by addressing
three questions about source distances. What are the physical limitations on coherent …