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 theoretical investigations in recent years. The rapid accumulation of observational data has painted the following ...
marking the beginning of a new research branch in astrophysics. In 2013, this kind of millisecond bursts with extremely high brightness temperature takes a unified name, fast radio burst (FRB). Over the first few years, FRBs seemed very mysterious because the sample of...
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 underlying physical mechanisms of these events. Knowledge gained from the neighbouring fields of gamma-ray bursts and radio pulsa...
The physics of fast radio bursts 2023, Reviews of Modern Physics Similar Scale-invariant Behaviors between Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters and an Extreme Epoch from FRB 121102 2021, Astrophysical Journal X-Ray Plateaus in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows and Their Application in Cosmology 2021, Astrophysical Journ...
Scientists from Northwestern University and McGill University have made a discovery that challenges existing theories about the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs). The findings, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters detail the observation of a fast radio burst originating from an ancient, qui...
We provide a comprehensive review of major developments in our understanding of gamma-ray bursts, with particular focus on the discoveries made within the last fifteen years when their true nature was uncovered. We describe the observational properties of photons from the radio to 100s GeV bands,...
Fast radio bursts were discovered just over a decade ago, and their origin remains a mystery. Despite this disadvantage, astronomers have been using them to investigate the matter through which their bright, impulsive radiation travels.Jean-Pierre...
In physics, simplicity is beauty. Chinese astronomers, using devices including the world's most sensitive radio telescope, identified a single parameter to describe the mysterious repeating fast radio bursts hailing from far beyond the Milky Way. ...
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Scientists have been befuddled by fast radio bursts, or FRBs, since the first one was discovered in 2007. They are far more powerful than anything in our own galaxy, and so fast and focused they seem to have shot out the barrel of some cosmic gun. They are also dispersed...