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 …

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 first CHIME/FRB fast radio burst catalog

M Amiri, BC Andersen, K Bandura… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of 536 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen
Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project between 400 and 800 …

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source

CH Niu, K Aggarwal, D Li, X Zhang, S Chatterjee… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon
content of the intergalactic medium, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic …

A fast radio burst associated with a Galactic magnetar

CD Bochenek, V Ravi, KV Belov, G Hallinan, J Kocz… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Since their discovery in 2007, much effort has been devoted to uncovering the sources of the
extragalactic, millisecond-duration fast radio bursts (FRBs). A class of neutron stars known …

A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetars are highly magnetized young neutron stars that occasionally produce enormous
bursts and flares of X-rays and γ-rays. Of the approximately thirty magnetars currently known …

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 …

A repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster

F Kirsten, B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are flashes of unknown physical origin. The majority of FRBs have
been seen only once, although some are known to generate multiple flashes,. Many models …

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 fast radio burst source at a complex magnetized site in a barred galaxy

H Xu, JR Niu, P Chen, KJ Lee, WW Zhu, S Dong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed, millisecond-duration radio bursts 1, 2, 3.
Recent observations of a Galactic FRB 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 suggest that at least some FRBs originate …