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Second Repeating Frb 180814.J0422+73: Ten-Year Fermi-Lat Upper Limits And Implications, Yu-Han Yang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Bing Zhang
Second Repeating Frb 180814.J0422+73: Ten-Year Fermi-Lat Upper Limits And Implications, Yu-Han Yang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Bing Zhang
Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research
The second repeating fast radio burst source, FRB 180814.J0422+73, was detected recently by the CHIME collaboration. We use the ten-year Fermi Large Area Telescope archival data to place a flux upper limit in the energy range of 100 MeV−10 GeV at the position of the source, which is ~1.1 × 10−11 erg cm−2 s−1 for a six-month time bin on average, and ~2.4 × 10−12 erg cm−2 s−1 for the entire ten-year time span. For the maximum redshift of z = 0.11, the ten-year upper limit of luminosity is ~7.3 × 1043 erg s−1. We utilize these upper limits to …
Coherent Radio Emission From A Twisted Magnetosphere After A Magnetar-Quake, Weiyang Wang, Bing Zhang, Xuelei Chen, Renxin Xu
Coherent Radio Emission From A Twisted Magnetosphere After A Magnetar-Quake, Weiyang Wang, Bing Zhang, Xuelei Chen, Renxin Xu
Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research
Magnetars are a class of highly magnetized, slowly rotating neutron stars, only a small fraction of which exhibit radio emission. We propose that the coherent radio curvature emission is generated by net charge fluctuations from a twist-current-carrying bundle (the j-bundle) in the scenario of magnetar-quake. Two-photon pair production is triggered, which requires a threshold voltage not too much higher than 109 V in the current-carrying bundle, and which can be regarded as the "open field lines" of a magnetar. Continued untwisting of the magnetosphere maintains change fluctuations, and hence coherent radio emission, in the progressively shrinking j-bundle, which lasts for …
Investigation Of The Asteroid - Neutron Star Collision Model For The Repeating Fast Radio Burst, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, Bing Zhang
Investigation Of The Asteroid - Neutron Star Collision Model For The Repeating Fast Radio Burst, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, Bing Zhang
Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research
The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still a mystery. One model proposed to interpret the only known repeating object, FRB 121102, is that the radio emission is generated from asteroids colliding with a highly magnetized neutron star (NS). With N-body simulations, we model a debris disc around a central star with an eccentric orbit intruding NS. As the NS approaches the first periastron passage, most of the comets are scattered away rather than being accreted by the NS. To match the observed FRB rate, the debris belt would have to be at least 3 orders of magnitude more …