Fast radio bursts at the dawn of the 2020s

E Petroff, JWT Hessels, DR Lorimer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2022 - Springer
Since the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and their confirmation as an
abundant extragalactic population in 2013, the study of these sources has expanded at an …

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 …

Fast radio burst morphology in the first CHIME/FRB catalog

Z Pleunis, DC Good, VM Kaspi… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a synthesis of fast radio burst (FRB) morphology (the change in flux as a function
of time and frequency) as detected in the 400–800 MHz octave by the FRB project on the …

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 …

A second source of repeating fast radio bursts

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source,, FRB 121102, eliminated models
involving cataclysmic events for this source. No other repeating FRB has hitherto been …

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 …

The dispersion–brightness relation for fast radio bursts from a wide-field survey

RM Shannon, JP Macquart, KW Bannister, RD Ekers… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Despite considerable efforts over the past decade, only 34 fast radio bursts—intense bursts
of radio emission from beyond our Galaxy—have been reported,. Attempts to understand the …

Observations of fast radio bursts at frequencies down to 400 megahertz

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio flashes probably
arriving from far outside the Milky Way,. This phenomenon was discovered at radio …

The low density and magnetization of a massive galaxy halo exposed by a fast radio burst

JX Prochaska, JP Macquart, M McQuinn, S Simha… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Present-day galaxies are surrounded by cool and enriched halo gas extending for hundreds
of kiloparsecs. This halo gas is thought to be the dominant reservoir of material available to …