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most citedTransparency of Fast Radio Burst Waves in Magnetar Magnetospheres

44 citations · 176 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectral and Polarization Properties of Coherent Radio Emission from Relativistic Magnetized Pair Plasma Shocks

Yuanhong Qu, Joonas Nättilä, Lorenzo Sironi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients whose emission mechanism remains an open question. The so-called synchrotron maser instability in relativistic ma…

astro-ph.HE2026

On the Physical Origins of Long Period Radio Transients

Yuanhong Qu, Bing Zhang

Long-period radio transients (LPRTs) are a rapidly growing class of coherent radio sources with periods ranging from minutes to hours, whose central engines and emission mechanisms…

astro-ph.HE2026

No Strong Evidence for Plasma Lensing in FRB 20240114A

Jiarui Niu, Xiaohui Liu, Nan Xu +33

FRB 20240114A is an extremely active repeating fast radio burst for which plasma lensing has been proposed to explain its burst-rate variations, spectral evolution, and apparently…

astro-ph.HE2026

Scattering of Strong Radio Waves by Particles in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas and Implications for Fast Radio Bursts

Yuanhong Qu, Pawan Kumar

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients that are widely believed to originate within magnetar magnetospheres. Large-amplitude radio waves associated with…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection of Cyclotron Absorption in the Radio Emission of GPM 1839-10

Yunpeng Men, Ewan Barr, Yuanhong Qu +8

GPM 1839-10 is an intriguing long-period radio transient (LPT), distinguished by its activity spanning at least three decades and its highly unusual emission characteristics. These…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Deep Synoptic Array Science: Searching for Long Duration Radio Transients with the DSA-110

Myles B. Sherman, Nikita Kosogorov, Casey Law +10

We describe the design and commissioning tests for the DSA-110 Not-So-Fast Radio Burst (NSFRB) search pipeline, a 1.4GHz image-plane single-pulse search sensitive to 134ms-160.8s r…

astro-ph.HE2025

The magnetar model's energy crisis for a prolific repeating fast radio burst source

Jun-Shuo Zhang, Tian-Cong Wang, Pei Wang +61

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are widely considered to originate from magnetars that power the explosion through releasing magnetic energy. Active repeating FRBs have been seen to produ…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Multi-year Polarimetric Monitoring of Four CHIME-Discovered Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with FAST

Yi Feng, Yong-Kun Zhang, Jintao Xie +50

In this study, we report multi-year polarization measurements of four repeating FRBs initially discovered by CHIME: FRBs~20190117A, 20190208A, 20190303A, and 20190417A. We observed…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Investigating FRB 20240114A with FAST: Morphological Classification and Drifting Rate Measurements in a Burst-Cluster Framework

Long-Xuan Zhang, Shiyan Tian, Junyi Shen +59

This study investigates the morphological classification and drifting rate measurement of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20240114A using the Five-hundred-meter Ape…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

A comprehensive search for Long and Short Periodic Features from an Extremely Active Cycle of FRB 20240114A

Dengke Zhou, Pei Wang, Jianhua Fang +56

Possible periodic features in fast radio bursts (FRBs) may provide insights into their astrophysical origins. Using extensive observations from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sphe…

astro-ph.HE2025

Bright bursts with sub-millisecond structures of FRB 20230607A in a highly magnetized environment

DeJiang Zhou, J. L. Han, Bing Zhang +19

We report the observations of a repeating FRB 20230607A for 15.6 hours spanning 16 months using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) with the detection…

astro-ph.HE2025

Polarization Angle Orthogonal Jumps in Fast Radio Bursts

Yuanhong Qu, Bing Zhang, Pawan Kumar

Recently, polarization angle (PA) orthogonal jumps over millisecond timescales were discovered from three bursts of a repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20201124A by the FAST te…

astro-ph.HE2025

Polarization Position Angle Swing and the Rotating Vector Model of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

Xiaohui Liu, Heng Xu, Jiarui Niu +23

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), typically highly polarized, usually have a nearly constant polarization position angle (PA) during each burst. Some bursts show significant PA variations,…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Polarization Characteristics of the Hyperactive FRB 20240114A

Jin-Tao Xie, Yi Feng, Di Li +14

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio bursts of extragalactic origin characterized by millisecond durations and high luminosities. We report on observations of FRB 20240114A…

astro-ph.HE2024

Magnetic Interactions in White Dwarf Binaries as Mechanism for Long-Period Radio Transients

Yuanhong Qu, Bing Zhang

A growing population of long-period radio transients has been discovered and their physical origin is still up to debate. Recently, a new such source named ILT J1101 + 5521 was dis…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 23 cited

Ninety percent circular polarization detected in a repeating fast radio burst

J. C. Jiang, J. W. Xu, J. R. Niu +34

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extra-galactic sources with unknown physical mechanisms. They emit millisecond-duration radio pulses with isotropic equivalent energy of $10^{36}\sim10…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

The Origins of Narrow Spectra of Fast Radio Bursts

Pawan Kumar, Yuanhong Qu, Bing Zhang

Observations find that some fast radio bursts (FRBs) have extremely narrow-band spectra, i.e., . We show that when the angular size of the emission region is larger t…

astro-ph.HE2024

Coherent Inverse Compton Scattering in Fast Radio Bursts Revisited

Yuanhong Qu, Bing Zhang

Growing observations of temporal, spectral, and polarization properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that the radio emission of the majority of bursts is likely produced in…

astro-ph.HE2023

The Minimum Variation Timescales of X-ray bursts from SGR J1935+2154

Shuo Xiao, Jiao-Jiao Yang, Xi-Hong Luo +34

The minimum variation timescale (MVT) of soft gamma-ray repeaters can be an important probe to estimate the emission region in pulsar-like models, as well as the Lorentz factor and…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

FAST Observations of FRB 20220912A: Burst Properties and Polarization Characteristics

Yong-Kun Zhang, Di Li, Bing Zhang +21

We report the observations of FRB 20220912A using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We conducted 17 observations totaling 8.67 hours and detected a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 24 cited

An extremely active repeating fast radio burst source in a likely non-magneto-ionic environment

Yi Feng, Di Li, Yong-Kun Zhang +24

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio bursts originating at cosmological distances. Only three repeating FRBs FRB 20121102A, FRB 20190520B and FRB 20201124A among 60 kno…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 42 cited

Polarization of Fast Radio Bursts: radiation mechanisms and propagation effects

Yuanhong Qu, Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are observed to be highly polarized. Most have high linear polarization but a small fraction show significant circular polarization. We systematically inve…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 44 cited

Transparency of Fast Radio Burst Waves in Magnetar Magnetospheres

Yuanhong Qu, Pawan Kumar, Bing Zhang

At least some fast radio bursts (FRBs) are produced by magnetars. Even though mounting observational evidence points towards a magnetospheric origin of FRB emission, the question o…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 12 cited

The plasma suppression effect can be ignored in realistic FRB models invoking bunched coherent radio emission

Yuanhong Qu, Bing Zhang, Pawan Kumar

One widely discussed mechanism to produce highly coherent radio emission of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is coherent emission by bunches, either via curvature radiation or inverse Comp…