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 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 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 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 localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels, SP Tendulkar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes,. Their physical origin
remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources …

[HTML][HTML] Baryon cycles in the biggest galaxies

M Donahue, GM Voit - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The universe's biggest galaxies have both vast atmospheres and supermassive central
black holes. This article reviews how those two components of a large galaxy couple and …

Host galaxy properties and offset distributions of fast radio bursts: implications for their progenitors

KE Heintz, JX Prochaska, S Simha… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast
radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder …

Characterizing the fast radio burst host galaxy population and its connection to transients in the local and extragalactic universe

S Bhandari, KE Heintz, K Aggarwal… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the localization and host galaxies of one repeating and two apparently
nonrepeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). FRB 20180301A was detected and localized with the …

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 …