Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

A measurement of hubble's constant using fast radio bursts

CW James, EM Ghosh, JX Prochaska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We constrain the Hubble constant H 0 using Fast Radio Burst (FRB) observations from the
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murriyang (Parkes) radio …