Fast Radio Bursts from Interacting Binary Neutron Star Systems

Zhang, Bing

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab7244

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“…The physical origins of FRBs are still mysterious. The observed short timescale structure in FRB light curves requires stellar-mass compact objects as central engines, such as magnetars (Popov & Postnov 2013;Kulkarni et al 2014;Murase et al 2016;Metzger et al 2017;Beloborodov 2017;Margalit et al 2018), binary neutron stars mergers (Totani 2013;Wang et al 2016;Yamasaki et al 2018;Zhang 2020), and interacting models (Geng & Huang 2015;Dai et al 2016;Zhang 2017).…”

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The Rarity of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Zhang

Wang

2020

ApJ

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic, bright pulses of emission at radio frequency with milliseconds duration. Observationally, FRBs can be divided into two classes, repeating FRBs and non-repeating FRBs. At present, twenty repeating FRBs have been discovered with unknown physical origins. Localization of the first repeating FRB 121102 and discovery of an associated persistent radio source support that FRBs are powered by young millisecond magnetars, which could be formed by core-collapses of massive stars or binary neutron stars mergers. These two formation channels can be distinguished by gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars mergers. We first calculate the lower limit of the local formation rate of repeating FRBs observed by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) . Then we show that only a small fraction (6%) of repeating FRBs is produced by young magnetars from binary neutron star mergers, basing on the gravitational wave detections by the third observing run (O3) of Advanced LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Therefore, we believe that repeating FRBs are more likely produced by the magnetars newborn from the core-collapses of massive stars rather than the magnetars from the binary neutron stars mergers.

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The Rarity of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Zhang

Wang

2020

ApJ

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“…Wang et al [217] have shown that if there is any association between compact binary coalescence and (catastrophic) FRBs, it should only apply for a very small fraction of FRBs. There is a possibility that repeating FRBs are produced by continuous magnetosphere interactions between two neutron stars [218]. If so, a connection might be made between repeating FRBs and Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) GW sources.…”

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Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts

Bhandari

Flynn

2021

Universe

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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 of the baryon content of the universe, and has the potential to directly constrain the location of the “missing baryons”. The first results are consistent with the expectations of ΛCDM for the cosmic density of baryons, and have provided the first constraints on the properties of the very diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) and circumgalactic medium (CGM) around galaxies. FRBs are the only known extragalactic sources that are compact enough to exhibit diffractive scintillation in addition to showing exponential tails which are typical of scattering in turbulent media. This will allow us to probe the turbulent properties of the circumburst medium, the host galaxy ISM/halo, and intervening halos along the path, as well as the IGM. Measurement of the Hubble constant and the dark energy parameter w can be made with FRBs, but require very large samples of localised FRBs (>103) to be effective on their own—they are best combined with other independent surveys to improve the constraints. Ionisation events, such as for He ii, leave a signature in the dispersion measure—redshift relation, and if FRBs exist prior to these times, they can be used to probe the reionisation era, although more than 103 localised FRBs are required.

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“…The ms periodicity may suggest a misclassified galactic pulsar origin, but the DM of the source strongly points towards an extragalactic source. One intriguing explanation for this behaviour in the context of non-repeating FRBs is the generation of periodic pulses from merging neutron stars, with the production of FRBs originating from the interaction from their magnetospheres long before the merger [53].…”

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The Low Frequency Perspective on Fast Radio Bursts

Pilia

2021

Universe

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) represent one of the most exciting astrophysical discoveries of the recent past. The study of their low-frequency emission, which was only effectively picked up about ten years after their discovery, has helped shape the field thanks to some of the most important detections to date. Observations between 400 and 800 MHz, carried out by the CHIME/FRB telescope, in particular, have led to the detection of ∼500 FRBs in little more than 1 year and, among them, ∼20 repeating sources. Detections at low frequencies have uncovered a nearby population that we can study in detail via continuous monitoring and targeted campaigns. The latest, most important discoveries include: periodicity, both at the days level in repeaters and at the millisecond level in apparently non-repeating sources; the detection of an FRB-like burst from a galactic magnetar; and the localisation of an FRB inside a globular cluster in a nearby galaxy. The systematic study of the population at low frequencies is important for the characterisation of the environment surrounding the FRBs and, at a global level, to understand the environment of the local universe. This review is intended to give an overview of the efforts leading to the current rich variety of low-frequency studies and to put into a common context the results achieved in order to trace a possible roadmap for future progress in the field.

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Fast Radio Bursts from Interacting Binary Neutron Star Systems

Cited by 69 publications

References 72 publications

The Rarity of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

The Rarity of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts

The Low Frequency Perspective on Fast Radio Bursts

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