A Bayesian Framework for Constraining Magnetar Magnetic Fields from Repeating FRB Statistics

arXiv:2608.26857 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

Terminology

• Bayesian Framework — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ambipolar Diffusion — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin
• A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances
• Chronicling the Host Galaxy Properties of the Remarkable Repeating FRB 20201124A
• Deep Synoptic Array science I: discovery of the host galaxy of FRB 20220912A
• CHIME/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources
• A Repeating Fast Radio Burst
• Nine New Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources from CHIME/FRB
• Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog
• Can a Single Population Account for the Discriminant Properties in Fast Radio Bursts?
• The Physics of Fast Radio Bursts
• A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar
• A fast radio burst associated with a Galactic magnetar
• A peculiar hard X-ray counterpart of a Galactic fast radio burst
• Detection of two bright radio bursts from magnetar SGR 1935+2154
• HXMT Identification of a non-thermal X-ray burst from SGR J1935+2154 and with FRB 200428
• Magnetars: the physics behind observations
• Magnetars
• Physics of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars
• Untwisting magnetospheres of neutron stars
• A model for fast extragalactic radio bursts

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