A living theory catalogue for fast radio bursts
By E. Platts, A. Weltman, A. Walters, S. Tendulkar, J. Gordin, S. Kandhai. Physics reports, 2018
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At present, we have almost as many theories to explain Fast Radio Bursts as we have Fast Radio Bursts observed. This landscape will be changing rapidly with CHIME/FRB, recently commissioned in Canada, and HIRAX, under construction in South Africa. This is an opportune time to review existing theories and their observational consequences, allowing us to efficiently curtail viable astrophysical models as more data becomes available. In this article we provide a currently up to date catalogue of the numerous and varied theories proposed for Fast Radio Bursts so far. We also launch an online evolving repository for the use and benefit of the community to dynamically update our theoretical knowledge and discuss constraints and uses of Fast Radio Bursts.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Citations in the corpus
- Fast radio bursts at the dawn of the 2020s (2021, neutral): “Most unique entries in the FRB Theory Catalogue10 focus on the FRB progenitor (Platts et al. 2019).”
- Host Galaxy Properties and Offset Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts: Implications for Their Progenitors (2020, background): “Despite being first detected more than a decade ago (Lorimer et al. 2007), the physical engines powering FRBs still remain a mystery, but a plethora of origins has been proposed (see e.g., Platts et al. 2019, for a compendium).”
- INTEGRAL Discovery of a Burst with Associated Radio Emission from the Magnetar SGR 1935+2154 (2020, background): “A large variety of models have been proposed for FRBs (see Platts et al. 2019 for an extensive and updated list), but no consensus has been reached yet on the nature of these sources.”
- A Nearby Repeating Fast Radio Burst in the Direction of M81 (2021, background): “Therefore, local universe FRBs are excellent candidates to test and constrain different proposed FRB models (for a comprehensive list, see Platts et al. 2019 and frbtheorycat.org) and to study in detail the local environments of the FRB sources (Mannings et al. 2020; Marcote et al. 2020; Tendulkar…”
- Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog (2021, background): “Many progenitor models include compact objects, with the FRB emission originating inside or outside of the magnetosphere, or in shocks in the circumstellar material18 (Platts et al. 2019).”