A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances

2013/07/04 by D. Thornton, B. Stappers, B. W. Stappers +25 · 40 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galactic plane #Galaxy #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Intergalactic medium #Intergalactic travel #Physics #Population #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quasar #Redshift #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1126/science.1236789

published as Science, Vol. 341 no. 6141 pp. 53-56 (5th July 2013) · 20 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Energies in table 1 corrected from hard-copy version

openalex publication_date 2013/07/04 · arxiv created 2013/07/05 · arxiv updated 2013/07/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Searches for transient astrophysical sources often reveal unexpected classes of objects that are useful physical laboratories. In a recent survey for pulsars and fast transients, we have uncovered four millisecond-duration radio transients all more than 40° from the Galactic plane. The bursts' properties indicate that they are of celestial rather than terrestrial origin. Host galaxy and intergalactic medium models suggest that they have cosmological redshifts of 0.5 to 1 and distances of up to 3 gigaparsecs. No temporally coincident x- or gamma-ray signature was identified in association with the bursts. Characterization of the source population and identification of host galaxies offers an opportunity to determine the baryonic content of the universe.

Citations

• On the possible observational manifestation of the impact of a supernova shock on the neutron star magnetosphere
• Multifrequency Observations of Radio Pulse Broadening and Constraints on Interstellar Electron Density Microstructure
• The Cosmic Dispersion Measure from Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows: Probing the Reionization History and the Burst Environment
• Radioactive 26Al from massive stars in the Galaxy
• First‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters

Cited by

• Cosmological-model independent limits on photon mass from FRB and SNe data
• A hydrodynamical simulations-based model that connects the FRB DM--redshift relation to suppression of the matter power spectrum via feedback
• FAST RADIO BURST/GAMMA-RAY BURST COSMOGRAPHY
• PROBING THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM WITH FAST RADIO BURSTS
• The confrontation of the shock-powered synchrotron maser model with the Galactic FRB 200428
• Torsional oscillations of strange stars
• On the change of old neutron star masses with galactocentric distance
• Constraints on pulsed emission model for repeating FRB 121102
• Statistical properties of magnetar bursts and FRB 121102
• Apertif, Phased Array Feeds for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
• Real-Time Adaptive Event Detection in Astronomical Data Streams
• PONDER - A Real time software backend for pulsar and IPS observations at the Ooty Radio Telescope
• Are fast radio bursts the most likely electromagnetic counterpart of neutron star mergers resulting in prompt collapse?
• Fast radio bursts and white hole signals
• FRB cosmology with the RM-PRS Luminosity Correlation
• Quark-Novae in the outskirts of galaxies: an explanation of the fast radio burst phenomenon
• Cosmology-insensitive estimate of IGM baryon mass fraction from five localized fast radio bursts
• A New Method to Measure Hubble Parameter H(z) Using Fast Radio Bursts
• A Fast Radio Burst Discovered in FAST Drift Scan Survey
• Probing the origin of extragalactic magnetic fields with Fast Radio Bursts
• The Sardinia Radio Telescope
• Probing primordial non-Gaussianity with fast radio bursts
• A blind search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts of fast radio bursts withFermi-LAT data
• Constraining violations of the weak equivalence principle Using CHIME FRBs
• A model of fast radio bursts: collisions between episodic magnetic blobs
• A model for the repeating FRB 121102 in the AGN scenario
• Inferring the distances of fast radio bursts through associated 21-cm absorption
• Cosmic Ray Origins: An Introduction
• New test of weak equivalence principle using polarized light from astrophysical events
• The Northern Cross fast radio burst project – I. Overview and pilot observations at 408 MHz
• Electromagnetic Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers in the Advanced LIGO Era
• Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) pathfinder
• Fast Radio Bursts as crustal dynamical events induced by magnetic field evolution in young magnetars
• Is GRB 110715A the Progenitor of FRB 171209?
• A METHOD TO IMPROVE THE SENSITIVITY OF RADIO TELESCOPES
• Cosmological Parameter Estimate from Persistent Radio Sources of Fast Radio Bursts
• Optical Transients from Fast Radio Bursts Heating Companion Stars in Close Binary Systems
• Constraining the redshifts of unlocalised fast radio bursts
• Bright bursts with sub-millisecond structures of FRB 20230607A in a highly magnetized environment
• SYNCHROTRON HEATING BY A FAST RADIO BURST IN A SELF-ABSORBED SYNCHROTRON NEBULA AND ITS OBSERVATIONAL SIGNATURE
• Limits on Fast Radio Bursts and other transient sources at 182 MHz using the Murchison Widefield Array

Related

• Fast Transients at Cosmological Distances with the SKA
• Fast Radio Bursts
• A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin
• Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts
• A unified picture of Galactic and cosmological fast radio bursts