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  • Communication
  • Open Access
59 Citations
4,054 Views
12 Pages

Blinkverse: A Database of Fast Radio Bursts

  • Jiaying Xu,
  • Yi Feng,
  • Di Li,
  • Pei Wang,
  • Yongkun Zhang,
  • Jintao Xie,
  • Huaxi Chen,
  • Han Wang,
  • Zhixuan Kang and
  • Dengke Zhou
  • + 4 authors

The volume of research on fast radio bursts (FRBs) observation have been seeing a dramatic growth. To facilitate the systematic analysis of the FRB population, we established a database platform, Blinkverse, as a central inventory of FRBs from variou...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,933 Views
19 Pages

Future of Neutron Star Studies with Fast Radio Bursts

  • Sergei B. Popov and
  • Maxim S. Pshirkov

21 March 2023

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were discovered only in 2007. However, the number of known events and sources of repeating bursts grows very rapidly. In the near future, the number of events will be ≳104 and the number of repeaters ≳100. Present...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
808 Views
8 Pages

Blinkverse 2.0: Updated Host Galaxies for Fast Radio Bursts

  • Jiaying Xu,
  • Chao-Wei Tsai,
  • Sean E. Lake,
  • Yi Feng,
  • Xiang-Lei Chen,
  • Di Li,
  • Han Wang,
  • Xuerong Guo,
  • Jingjing Hu and
  • Xiaodong Ge

24 June 2025

Studying the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is critical to understanding the formation processes of their sources and, hence, the mechanisms by which they radiate. Toward this end, we have extended the Blinkverse database version 1.0, whic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,169 Views
33 Pages

Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts

  • Shivani Bhandari and
  • Chris Flynn

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) represent a novel tool for probing the properties of the universe at cosmological distances. The dispersion measures of FRBs, combined with the redshifts of their host galaxies, has very recently yielded a direct measurement...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,583 Views
10 Pages

18 August 2023

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are still a mystery in contemporary astrophysics. Unlike many other astronomical objects whose basic physical mechanism is already identified and the research on which focuses mainly on refining details, FRBs are still largel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,187 Views
11 Pages

Through the relationship between dispersion measures (DM) and redshifts, fast radio bursts (FRBs) are considered to be very promising cosmological probes. In this paper, we attempted to use the DM-z relationship of FRBs to study the helium abundance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
813 Views
22 Pages

11 September 2025

Light from fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be deflected by the gravitational lensing effect of primordial black holes (PBHs), if they are distributed along the path from the FRBs to the observer. Consequently, the PBH mass function can be constrained by...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,597 Views
34 Pages

20 November 2021

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have a story which has been told and retold many times over the past few years as they have sparked excitement and controversy since their pioneering discovery in 2007. The FRB class encompasses a number of microsecond- to mi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
19,330 Views
42 Pages

Multiwavelength Observations of Fast Radio Bursts

  • Luciano Nicastro,
  • Cristiano Guidorzi,
  • Eliana Palazzi,
  • Luca Zampieri,
  • Massimo Turatto and
  • Angela Gardini

The origin and phenomenology of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) remains unknown despite more than a decade of efforts. Though several models have been proposed to explain the observed data, none is able to explain alone the variety of events so far record...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,737 Views
14 Pages

Fast Radio Burst Energy Function in the Presence of DMhost Variation

  • Ji-Guo Zhang,
  • Yichao Li,
  • Jia-Ming Zou,
  • Ze-Wei Zhao,
  • Jing-Fei Zhang and
  • Xin Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been found in great numbers, but the physical mechanism of these sources is still a mystery. The redshift evolutions of the FRB energy distribution function and the volumetric rate shed light on the origin of FRBs. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,821 Views
26 Pages

The Statistical Similarity of Repeating and Non-Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

  • Kongjun Zhang,
  • Longbiao Li,
  • Zhibin Zhang,
  • Qinmei Li,
  • Juanjuan Luo and
  • Min Jiang

In this paper, we present a sample of 21 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by different radio instruments before September 2021. Using the Anderson–Darling test, we compared the distributions of extra-Galactic dispersion measure (DME)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
420 Views
24 Pages

Effects of the Intraday Variability of the Radio Galaxy Perseus A (3C 84) at a Frequency of 6.5 GHz and Evidence for a Possible FRB Event

  • Vladislavs Bezrukovs,
  • Oleg Ulyanov,
  • Artem Sukharev,
  • Vyacheslav Zakharenko,
  • Mikhail Ryabov,
  • Viktor Ozhinskyi,
  • Volodymyr Vlasenko,
  • Anatolyi Poikhalo,
  • Oleksandr Konovalenko and
  • Marina Konuhova
  • + 7 authors

23 December 2025

Perseus A (3C 84), a powerful radio source located at the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275—classified as a Seyfert type II AGN and the dominant member of the X-ray bright Abell 426 cluster–exhibits radio emission variability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
750 Views
13 Pages

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of mysterious origin, with growing evidence linking at least some of them to magnetars. While FRBs are primarily observed in the radio band, their potential multi-wavelength afterglow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
681 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2025

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous radio transients with millisecond duration. For some active repeaters, such as FRBs 20121102A and 20201124A, more than a thousand bursts have been detected by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Teles...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,413 Views
16 Pages

28 March 2024

Ephemeral Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) must be powered by some of the most energetic processes in the Universe. That makes them highly interesting in their own right, and as precise probes for estimating cosmological parameters. This field thus poses a u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,993 Views
20 Pages

Sparsity and M-Estimators in RFI Mitigation for Typical Radio Astrophysical Signals

  • Hao Shan,
  • Ming Jiang,
  • Jianping Yuan,
  • Xiaofeng Yang,
  • Wenming Yan,
  • Zhen Wang and
  • Na Wang

23 November 2023

In this paper, radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation by robust maximum likelihood estimators (M-estimators) for typical radio astrophysical signals of, e.g., pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), will be investigated. The current status revea...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,793 Views
11 Pages

Do Multi-Structural One-Off FRBs Trace Similar Cosmology History with Repeaters?

  • Yuhao Zhu,
  • Chenhui Niu,
  • Xianghan Cui,
  • Di Li,
  • Yi Feng,
  • Chaowei Tsai,
  • Pei Wang,
  • Yongkun Zhang,
  • Fanyi Meng and
  • Zheng Zheng

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration transient events that are typically observed at radio wavelengths and cosmological distances but their origin remains unclear. Furthermore, most FRB origin models are related to the processes at stell...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,888 Views
33 Pages

A Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray View of the Transient Sky

  • Alessandro Carosi and
  • Alicia López-Oramas

29 March 2024

The development of the latest generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) over recent decades has led to the discovery of new extreme astrophysical phenomena in the very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray regime. Time-doma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,024 Views
25 Pages

SAINT (Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope)—A Wide-Field Telescope Complex for Detecting and Studying Optical Transients at Times from Milliseconds to Years

  • Grigory Beskin,
  • Anton Biryukov,
  • Alexey Gutaev,
  • Sergey Karpov,
  • Gor Oganesyan,
  • Gennady Valyavin,
  • Azamat Valeev,
  • Valery Vlasyuk,
  • Nadezhda Lyapsina and
  • Vyacheslav Sasyuk

7 December 2023

In this paper, we present a project of a multi-channel wide-field optical sky monitoring system with high temporal resolution—Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope (SAINT)— mostly built from off-the-shelf components and aimed towards s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,072 Views
27 Pages

MASTER Real-Time Multi-Message Observations of High Energy Phenomena

  • Vladimir M. Lipunov,
  • Viktor G. Kornilov,
  • Kirill Zhirkov,
  • Artem Kuznetsov,
  • Evgenii Gorbovskoy,
  • Nikolai M. Budnev,
  • David A. H. Buckley,
  • Rafael Rebolo Lopez,
  • Miquel Serra-Ricart and
  • Dmitrii Kuvshinov
  • + 17 authors

This review considers synchronous and follow-up MASTER Global Robotic Net optical observations of high energy astrophysical phenomena such as fast radio bursts (FRB), gamma-ray bursts (including prompt optical emission polarization discovery), gravit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,487 Views
16 Pages

9 December 2019

Computational radio frequency identification (CRFID) sensors are able to transfer potentially large amounts of data to the reader in the radio frequency range. However, the existing EPC C1G2 protocol is inefficient when there are abundant critical an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,436 Views
16 Pages

The paper presents the concept, implementation, and test operation of a modernized solar radio spectrograph for an investigation of the solar emission and solar bursts in radio frequency bands. Besides having a strong diagnostic significance for stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,440 Views
20 Pages

An Observation Scheduling System for Radio Telescope Array

  • Chi Ma,
  • Rushuang Zhao,
  • Baoqiang Lao,
  • Wenjun Xiao,
  • Hui Liu and
  • Ziyi You

12 March 2025

The 4 × 4.5 m radio telescope array at Guizhou Normal University is an astronomical observation facility in operation, mainly aiming at the scientific detection of pulsars and fast radio bursts. To adequately address the observational requireme...

  • Review
  • Open Access
962 Views
30 Pages

Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST): A Powerful Explorer of Exotic Pulsars

  • Cheng-Min Zhang,
  • Zhi-Yao Yang,
  • Xiang-Han Cui,
  • De-Hua Wang,
  • Yi-Yan Yang,
  • Xin-Ji Wu,
  • Jian-Wei Zhang,
  • Shu Ma,
  • Yun-Gang Zhou and
  • Lin-Yan Jiang

14 November 2025

Located in southern China, the five-hundred-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST) is the world’s most sensitive radio telescope, especially for pulsar observation. Since its commissioning in 2016 and full operation in 2020, it has det...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,991 Views
29 Pages

Scientific Highlights of the AGILE Gamma-ray Mission

  • Stefano Vercellone,
  • Carlotta Pittori and
  • Marco Tavani

25 March 2024

The γ-ray sky above a few tens of megaelectronvolts (MeV) reveals some of the most powerful and energetic phenomena of our Universe. The Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero (AGILE) Gamma-ray Mission was launched in 2007 with the aim of ob...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
9,374 Views
37 Pages

Magnetism Science with the Square Kilometre Array

  • George Heald,
  • Sui Ann Mao,
  • Valentina Vacca,
  • Takuya Akahori,
  • Ancor Damas-Segovia,
  • B. M. Gaensler,
  • Matthias Hoeft,
  • Ivan Agudo,
  • Aritra Basu and
  • the SKA Magnetism Science Working Group
  • + 34 authors

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will answer fundamental questions about the origin, evolution, properties, and influence of magnetic fields throughout the Universe. Magnetic fields can illuminate and influence phenomena as diverse as star formation,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,763 Views
10 Pages

Searching for Short-Timescale Transients in Gamma-ray Telescope Data

  • Annanay Jaitly,
  • Dmitriy Kostunin and
  • Karin Cescon

Astrophysical sources show variability in their emissions over a range of timescales, with transients such as fast radio bursts (FRBs) and magnetar giant flares (MGFs) showing variability on timescales as short as a few milliseconds. Recent advances...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,644 Views
13 Pages

Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope and Its Role in Pulsar Astronomy

  • Zhen Yan,
  • Zhiqiang Shen,
  • Yajun Wu,
  • Rongbing Zhao,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Zhipeng Huang,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Xiaowei Wang,
  • Qinghui Liu and
  • Bo Xia
  • + 4 authors

26 April 2024

After two phases of on-site construction and testing (2010–2013 and 2013–2017), the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT) can work well, with efficiencies better than 50% from 1.3 to 50.0 GHz, mainly benefiting from its low-noise cryogen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,707 Views
24 Pages

5 January 2022

Recent discovery of fast blue optical transients (FBOTs)—a new class of energetic transient sources—can shed light on the long-standing problem of supernova—long gamma-ray burst connections. A distinctive feature of such objects is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,069 Views
24 Pages

A quark-nova is a hypothetical stellar evolution branch where a neutron star converts explosively into a quark star. Here, we discuss the intimate coupling between the micro-physics and macro-physics of the quark-nova and provide a prescription for h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,269 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2023

Impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events were first distinguished as the streaming electrons that produce type III radio bursts as distinct from shock-induced type II bursts. They were then observed as the surprisingly enhanced 3He-rich SEP ev...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,396 Views
25 Pages

Magnetic Penrose process (MPP) is not only the most exciting and fascinating process mining the rotational energy of black hole but it is also the favored astrophysically viable mechanism for high energy sources and phenomena. It operates in three re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,584 Views
31 Pages

Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with AXIS

  • Riccardo Arcodia,
  • Franz E. Bauer,
  • S. Bradley Cenko,
  • Kristen C. Dage,
  • Daryl Haggard,
  • Wynn C. G. Ho,
  • Erin Kara,
  • Michael Koss,
  • Tingting Liu and
  • Yuhan Yao
  • + 9 authors

2 August 2024

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) promises revolutionary science in the X-ray and multi-messenger time domain. AXIS will leverage excellent spatial resolution (<1.5 arcsec), sensitivity (80× that of Swift), and a large collecting a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,809 Views
15 Pages

A New Solution of the Pulsar Equation

  • Ioannis Contopoulos,
  • Ioannis Dimitropoulos,
  • Dimitris Ntotsikas and
  • Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

12 April 2024

We present the first new type of solution of the pulsar equation since 1999. In it, the whole magnetosphere is confined inside the light cylinder and an electrically charged layer wraps around it and holds it together. The reason this new solution ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,503 Views
14 Pages

The Non-Thermal Radio Emissions of the Solar Transition Region and the Proposal of an Observational Regime

  • Baolin Tan,
  • Jing Huang,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Yuanyong Deng,
  • Linjie Chen,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Jin Fan and
  • Jun Shi

8 February 2024

The transition region is a very thin but most peculiar layer in the solar atmosphere located between the solar chromosphere and the corona. It is a key region for understanding coronal heating, solar eruption triggers, and the origin of solar winds....

  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
35 Pages

We revisit the premise that spacetime geometry must be quantized and show that this assumption is not physically required. Just as one does not quantize pressure or temperature, quantizing the metric treats a macroscopic continuum variable as if it w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,401 Views
14 Pages

Constraining the Milky Way’s Dispersion Measure Using FRB and X-Ray Data

  • Jiale Wang,
  • Zheng Zhou,
  • Xiaochuan Jiang and
  • Taotao Fang

27 January 2025

The dispersion measures (DMs) of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a valuable tool to probe the baryonic content of the intergalactic medium and the circumgalactic medium of the intervening galaxies along the sightlines. However, interpreting the DMs...