A repeating fast radio burst

LG Spitler, P Scholz, JWT Hessels, S Bogdanov… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
… The apparent non-repeating nature of these bursts has led to the suggestion that they … of
ten additional bursts from the direction of the fast radio burst FRB 121102. These bursts have …

A second source of repeating fast radio bursts

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source 1,2 , FRB 121102, eliminated models involving
cataclysmic events for this source. No other repeating … the detection of six repeat bursts from FRB …

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source

CH Niu, K Aggarwal, D Li, X Zhang, S Chatterjee… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon
content of the intergalactic medium 1 , which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic …

The prevalence of repeating fast radio bursts

V Ravi - Nature Astronomy, 2019 - nature.com
… Within the existing suite of astrophysical scenarios for fast radio burst progenitors, I conclude
that most observed cases must originate from sources that emit several bursts over their …

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, …

Repeating fast radio bursts with WSRT/Apertif

LC Oostrum, Y Maan, J Van Leeuwen… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) present excellent opportunities to identify FRB
progenitors and host environments as well as to decipher the underlying emission mechanism…

A repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster

F Kirsten, B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are flashes of unknown physical origin 1 . The majority of FRBs have
been seen only once, although some are known to generate multiple flashes 2 , 3 . Many …

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
… The recent detection of a Galactic fast radio burst in association with a soft gamma-ray …
probably all, fast radio bursts. Other engines that could produce fast radio bursts are not required, …

Frequency-dependent polarization of repeating fast radio bursts—implications for their origin

Y Feng, D Li, YP Yang, Y Zhang, W Zhu, B Zhang, W Lu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The polarization of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which are bright astronomical transient phenomena,
contains information about their environments. Using wide-band observations with two …