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 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 …

Host galaxy properties and offset distributions of fast radio bursts: implications for their progenitors

KE Heintz, JX Prochaska, S Simha… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast
radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A measurement of hubble's constant using fast radio bursts

CW James, EM Ghosh, JX Prochaska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We constrain the Hubble constant H 0 using Fast Radio Burst (FRB) observations from the
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murriyang (Parkes) radio …

High time resolution and polarization properties of ASKAP-localized fast radio bursts

CK Day, AT Deller, RM Shannon, H Qiu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Combining high time and frequency resolution full-polarization spectra of fast radio bursts
(FRBs) with knowledge of their host galaxy properties provides an opportunity to study both …

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts–II. New FRB discoveries and their follow-up

S Bhandari, EF Keane, ED Barr… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of four Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in the ongoing SUrvey for Pulsars
and Extragalactic Radio Bursts at the Parkes Radio Telescope: FRBs 150610, 151206 …