The discovery and scientific potential of fast radio bursts

M Bailes - Science, 2022 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-time-scale bursts of coherent radio emission that
are luminous enough to be detectable at cosmological distances. In this Review, I describe …

A population of fast radio bursts at cosmological distances

D Thornton, B Stappers, M Bailes, B Barsdell, S Bates… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Searches for transient astrophysical sources often reveal unexpected classes of objects that
are useful physical laboratories. In a recent survey for pulsars and fast transients, we have …

Fast radio burst discovered in the Arecibo pulsar ALFA survey

LG Spitler, JM Cordes, JWT Hessels… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent work has exploited pulsar survey data to identify temporally isolated, millisecond-
duration radio bursts with large dispersion measures (DMs). These bursts have been …

Local circumnuclear magnetar solution to extragalactic fast radio bursts

UL Pen, L Connor - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We synthesize the known information about fast radio bursts (FRBs) and radio magnetars,
and describe an allowed origin near nuclei of external, but non-cosmological, galaxies. This …

Coherent emission in fast radio bursts

JI Katz - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The fast (ms) radio bursts reported by Lorimer et al. Science 318, 777 (2007) and Thornton
et al. Science 341, 53 (2013) have extremely high brightness temperatures if at the inferred …

Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope

E Petroff, EF Keane, ED Barr… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Perytons' are millisecond-duration transients of terrestrial origin, whose frequency-
swept emission mimics the dispersion of an astrophysical pulse that has propagated through …

A millisecond interferometric search for fast radio bursts with the Very Large Array

CJ Law, GC Bower, S Burke-Spolaor… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the first millisecond timescale radio interferometric search for the new class of
transient known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). We used the Very Large Array (VLA) for a 166 …

An absence of fast radio bursts at intermediate galactic latitudes

E Petroff, W Van Straten, S Johnston… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an emerging class of bright, highly dispersed radio pulses.
Recent work by Thornton et al. has revealed a population of FRBs in the High Time …

On the detectability of extragalactic fast radio transients

DR Lorimer, A Karastergiou… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Recent discoveries of highly dispersed millisecond radio bursts by Thornton et al. in a
survey with the Parkes radio telescope at 1.4 GHz point towards an emerging population of …

Detection of dispersed radio pulses: a machine learning approach to candidate identification and classification

TR Devine, K Goseva-Popstojanova… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Searching for extraterrestrial, transient signals in astronomical data sets is an active area of
current research. However, machine learning techniques are lacking in the literature …