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Article Contents
- 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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