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Fast Radio Bursts & Unexpected Cosmic Phenomena: Foundations

Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio flashes with enormous inferred brightness. FRBs probe neutron-star physics, intergalactic plasma, cosmic baryons, magnetic fields, host environments, and the discovery process for genuinely unexpected phenomena.

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Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio flashes with enormous inferred brightness.

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Radio pulses traveling through ionized plasma arrive later at lower frequencies, producing a dispersion sweep that measures integrated free-electron content.

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