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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION
1.1.A brief history
1.2.The FRB population
1.3.Motivation for this review

2.PROPERTIES OF FRBs
2.1.Observed properties
2.2.Basic derived properties
2.2.1.Distance constraints
2.2.2.Source luminosity
2.2.3.DM-flux relationship
2.2.4.Brightness temperature

3.PROPAGATION EFFECTS
3.1.Dispersion
3.2.Scintillation
3.3.Scattering
3.4.Faraday rotation
3.5.Plasma lensing
3.6.H I absorption
3.7.Free-free absorption

4.Observational Techniques
4.1.Searching for FRBs
4.1.1.Preliminary radio frequency interference excision
4.1.2.De-dispersion
4.1.3.Extracting a time series
4.1.4.Baseline estimation or smoothing
4.1.5.Normalization
4.1.6.Matched filtering
4.1.7.Candidate grouping
4.1.8.Post-processing RFI excision
4.2.FRB search pipelines
4.3.FRB searches with radio telescopes
4.3.1.Single-dish methods
4.3.2.Interferometric Methods

5.LANDMARK FRB DISCOVERIES
5.1.FRB 010724 - The Lorimer Burst
5.2.FRB 010621 - The Keane Burst
5.3.FRB 140514
5.4.FRB 121102
5.5.FRB 180814.J0422+73

6.POPULATION PROPERTIES
6.1.FRB polarization and rotation measures
6.2.Multi-wavelength follow-up of FRBs
6.3.Properties of the FRB population
6.4.The sky distribution
6.5.The DM distribution
6.6.The pulse width distribution
6.7.Repeating and non-repeating FRBs
6.8.Sub-populations emerging?

7.THE INTRINSIC POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
7.1.The fluence-dispersion measure plane
7.2.The FRB luminosity function
7.3.FRB rates and source counts
7.4.Intrinsic pulse widths
7.5.Intrinsic spectra

8.EMISSION MECHANISMS FOR FRBs

9.Progenitor models
9.1.Neutron star progenitors
9.1.1.Isolated neutron star models
9.1.2.Interacting neutron star models
9.1.3.Colliding neutron star models
9.2.Black hole progenitors
9.3.White dwarf progenitors
9.4.Exotic progenitors
9.5.Differentiating between progenitor models

10.SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

11.PREDICTIONS FOR 2024
11.1.EP
11.2.JWTH
11.3.DRL

A GLOSSARY

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