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 …

Masses, radii, and the equation of state of neutron stars

F Özel, P Freire - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We summarize our current knowledge of neutron-star masses and radii. Recent
instrumentation and computational advances have resulted in a rapid increase in the …

A radio transient with unusually slow periodic emission

N Hurley-Walker, X Zhang, A Bahramian… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The high-frequency radio sky is bursting with synchrotron transients from massive stellar
explosions and accretion events, but the low-frequency radio sky has, so far, been quiet …

A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

KW Bannister, AT Deller, C Phillips, JP Macquart… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some
are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Nonrepeating FRB observations have had …

FRBCAT: the fast radio burst catalogue

E Petroff, ED Barr, A Jameson, EF Keane… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Here we present a catalogue of known Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources in the form of an
online catalogue, FRBCAT. The catalogue includes information about the instrumentation …

The FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey: I. Project design and pulsar discoveries⋆

JL Han, C Wang, PF Wang, T Wang… - … in Astronomy and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-
meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam …

The international pulsar timing array: first data release

JPW Verbiest, L Lentati, G Hobbs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro) physical
investigations. In particular, arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of …

Pulsar glitches: observations and physical interpretation

D Antonopoulou, B Haskell… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The interpretation of pulsar rotational glitches, the sudden increase in spin frequency of
neutron stars, is a half-century-old challenge. The common view is that glitches are driven by …

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 …

Fifty years of pulsar candidate selection: from simple filters to a new principled real-time classification approach

RJ Lyon, BW Stappers, S Cooper… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Improving survey specifications are causing an exponential rise in pulsar candidate
numbers and data volumes. We study the candidate filters used to mitigate these problems …