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 …

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 radio pulsar phase from SGR J1935+ 2154 provides clues to the magnetar FRB mechanism

W Zhu, H Xu, D Zhou, L Lin, B Wang, P Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The megajansky radio burst, FRB 20200428, and other bright radio bursts detected from the
Galactic source SGR J1935+ 2154 suggest that magnetars can make fast radio bursts …

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 …

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 …

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 …

HXMT identification of a non-thermal X-ray burst from SGR J1935+ 2154 and with FRB 200428

CK Li, L Lin, SL Xiong, MY Ge, XB Li, TP Li, FJ Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short pulses observed in the radio band from cosmological
distances. One class of models invokes soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), or magnetars, as …

Repeating behaviour of FRB 121102: Periodicity, waiting times, and energy distribution

M Cruces, LG Spitler, P Scholz, R Lynch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Detections from the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 are clustered in time, noticeable
even in the earliest repeat bursts. Recently, it was argued that the source activity is periodic …

A peculiar hard X-ray counterpart of a Galactic fast radio burst

A Ridnaia, D Svinkin, D Frederiks, A Bykov, S Popov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-scale radio flashes of unknown physical
origin. Young, highly magnetized, isolated neutron stars—magnetars—have been …