Fast Radio Bursts
arXiv:1806.03628 · doi:10.3367/UFNe.2018.03.038313
Abstract
The phenomenon of fast radio bursts (FRBs) was discovered in 2007. These are powerful (0.1-100 Jy) single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds, large dispersion measures, and record high brightness temperatures suggesting coherent emission mechanism. As of time of writing, 32 FRBs were recorded. There is also one repeating source from which already hundreds of bursts have been detected. The FRB rate is estimated to amount up to several thousand per day over the sky, and their isotropic sky distribution likely suggests a cosmological origin. Since the discovery, different hypotheses on the possible FRB nature have been proposed, however up to now the origin of these transient events remains obscure. The most prospective models treat them as being related to a bursting emission from magnetars -- neutron stars whose activity is due to their magnetic field dissipation, -- or as being analogs of giant pulses observed from several radio pulsars . Future increase in the statistics of the observed FRBs and an improvement upon the FRB population characteristics will make possible to use them as a new tool to probe the intergalactic medium and to test fundamental physical theories.
arXiv commentAn updated version of the review accepted for publication in Physics Uspekhi (2018). 26 pages, 4 figures
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