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 census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts

JP Macquart, JX Prochaska, M McQuinn, KW Bannister… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
More than three-quarters of the baryonic content of the Universe resides in a highly diffuse
state that is difficult to detect, with only a small fraction directly observed in galaxies 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 …

Ultra high energy cosmic rays The intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers

A Coleman, J Eser, E Mayotte, F Sarazin… - Astroparticle …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present white paper is submitted as part of the “Snowmass” process to help inform the
long-term plans of the United States Department of Energy and the National Science …

CMB-S4 science case, reference design, and project plan

K Abazajian, G Addison, P Adshead, Z Ahmed… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan Page 1 CMB-S4 Science Case,
Reference Design, and Project Plan CMB-S4 Collaboration July 9, 2019 arXiv:1907.04473v1 …

A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

KW Bannister, AT Deller, C Phillips, JP Macquart… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some
are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Nonrepeating FRB observations have had …

Fast radio bursts as synchrotron maser emission from decelerating relativistic blast waves

BD Metzger, B Margalit, L Sironi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultrarelativistic
magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine …

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 …