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 …

Synthesizing observations and theory to understand galactic magnetic fields: progress and challenges

R Beck, L Chamandy, E Elson, EG Blackman - Galaxies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Constraining dynamo theories of magnetic field origin by observation is indispensable but
challenging, in part because the basic quantities measured by observers and predicted by …

Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s

M Caleb, I Heywood, K Rajwade, M Malenta… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The radio-emitting neutron star population encompasses objects with spin periods ranging
from milliseconds to tens of seconds. As they age and spin more slowly, their radio emission …

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 …

An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102

D Michilli, A Seymour, JWT Hessels, LG Spitler… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration, extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical
origin,,. The only known repeating fast radio burst source,,—FRB 121102—has been …

Dense magnetized plasma associated with a fast radio burst

K Masui, HH Lin, J Sievers, CJ Anderson, TC Chang… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts are bright, unresolved, non-repeating, broadband, millisecond flashes,
found primarily at high Galactic latitudes, with dispersion measures much larger than …

Planck 2015 results-XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields

PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud, F Arroja… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We compute and investigate four types of imprint of a stochastic background of primordial
magnetic fields (PMFs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies: the …

Nine new repeating fast radio burst sources from CHIME/FRB

E Fonseca, BC Andersen, M Bhardwaj… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the discovery and analysis of bursts from nine new repeating fast radio burst
(FRB) sources found using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) …

The Galactic Faraday rotation sky 2020

S Hutschenreuter, CS Anderson, S Betti… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. This work provides an update to existing reconstructions of the Galactic Faraday
rotation sky by processing almost all Faraday rotation data sets available at the end of the …

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 …