Fast radio bursts: an extragalactic enigma

JM Cordes, S Chatterjee - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We summarize our understanding of millisecond radio bursts from an extragalactic
population of sources. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) occur at an extraordinary rate, thousands per …

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 …

Fast radio bursts as synchrotron maser emission from decelerating relativistic blast waves

BD Metzger, B Margalit, L Sironi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultrarelativistic
magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine …

A second source of repeating fast radio bursts

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source,, FRB 121102, eliminated models
involving cataclysmic events for this source. No other repeating FRB has hitherto been …

The CHIME fast radio burst project: system overview

M Amiri, K Bandura, P Berger, M Bhardwaj… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a novel transit
radio telescope operating across the 400–800 MHz band. CHIME is composed of four 20 m× …

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts–II. New FRB discoveries and their follow-up

S Bhandari, EF Keane, ED Barr… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of four Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in the ongoing SUrvey for Pulsars
and Extragalactic Radio Bursts at the Parkes Radio Telescope: FRBs 150610, 151206 …

Inferring the energy and distance distributions of fast radio bursts using the first CHIME/FRB catalog

K Shin, KW Masui, M Bhardwaj… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, energetic, typically extragalactic flashes of radio emission
whose progenitors are largely unknown. Although studying the FRB population is essential …

On the FRB luminosity function––II. Event rate density

R Luo, Y Men, K Lee, W Wang… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The luminosity function of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), defined as the event rate per unit
cosmic co-moving volume per unit luminosity, may help to reveal the possible origins of …

FETCH: A deep-learning based classifier for fast transient classification

D Agarwal, K Aggarwal, S Burke-Spolaor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
With the upcoming commensal surveys for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), and their high
candidate rate, usage of machine learning algorithms for candidate classification is a …

On the normalized FRB luminosity function

R Luo, K Lee, DR Lorimer… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT 33 fast radio bursts (FRBs) had been detected by 2018 March. Although the
sample size is still limited, meaningful statistical studies can already be carried out. The …