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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …