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 bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetars are highly magnetized young neutron stars that occasionally produce enormous
bursts and flares of X-rays and γ-rays. Of the approximately thirty magnetars currently known …

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 …

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 …

Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio transients originating from
sources at extragalactic distances, the origin of which is unknown. Some FRB sources emit …

Diverse polarization angle swings from a repeating fast radio burst source

R Luo, BJ Wang, YP Men, CF Zhang, JC Jiang, H Xu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients, of unknown origin. Two
possible mechanisms that could generate extremely coherent emission from FRBs invoke …

LOFAR detection of 110–188 MHz emission and frequency-dependent activity from FRB 20180916B

Z Pleunis, D Michilli, CG Bassa… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The object FRB 20180916B is a well-studied repeating fast radio burst source. Its proximity
(∼ 150 Mpc), along with detailed studies of the bursts, has revealed many clues about its …

FRB 121102 bursts show complex time–frequency structure

JWT Hessels, LG Spitler, AD Seymour… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
FRB 121102 is the only known repeating fast radio burst source. Here we analyze a wide-
frequency-range (1–8 GHz) sample of high signal-to-noise, coherently dedispersed bursts …

Rotation measure evolution of the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 121102

GH Hilmarsson, D Michilli, LG Spitler… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The repeating fast radio burst source FRB 121102 has been shown to have an exceptionally
high and variable Faraday rotation measure (RM), which must be imparted within its host …