Fast Radio Bursts
A special issue of Universe (ISSN 2218-1997). This special issue belongs to the section "Space Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 23375
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neutron stars; pulsars; relativistic binaries; magnetars; fast radio bursts
2. Department of Physics, National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, Myasnitskaya str. 20, Moscow 101000, Russia
Interests: neutron stars; black holes; binary systems; pulsars
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Dear Colleagues,
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic transients that appear several thousand times a day in the sky, yet we still are not sure about their origin. Important observational results related to this phenomenon have been obtained regularly since 2013 thanks to old and new instruments such as Parkes, CHIME, ASKAP, UTMOST, FAST, and SRT. These observational results have also been accompanied by many theoretical studies. Recent discoveries of periodicity in activity periods of several repeating FRBs and of simultaneous X/gamma-ray and FRB-like radio bursts from a Galactic magnetar shed new light on properties of sources, but also pose new questions.
FRBs are of great interest by themselves, as they have very spectacular observational appearance, and we still do not know the exact mechanism of emission of these sources, which is a topic of intensive discussion. However, these transients are proposed as important “instruments” in cosmology, extragalactic studies, and fundamental physics. In particular, FRBs are used to probe intergalactic medium and outskirts of galaxies and to put constraints on fundamental parameters.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to present contributions that describe recent observational and theoretical results on FRBs.
Papers on multi-messenger observations, usage of FRBs as probes of the Universe, emission mechanisms, and population studies of these transients are especially welcome.
Dr. Marta Burgay
Prof. Dr. Sergei Popov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Fast radio bursts
- Magnetar radio emission
- Radio astronomy
- Multi-messenger observations
- Transient radio sources
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