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Multiple messengers of fast radio bursts

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Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astronomy will reveal the phenomena that produce fast radio bursts, turning fast radio bursts into sharper tools with which to probe extragalactic plasma.

Thus, although FRBs are unique in their capability as physical probes, we will necessarily need to rely on FRB localization, followed by studies of the source and host with other wavelengths and messengers, to disentangle effects local to the FRB from intergalactic effects. If FRBs are detectable as multi-messenger or multi-wavelength phenomena, those follow-up observations will also be the most direct way to answer the simple (but as yet unanswered) question: what makes FRBs?

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Fig. 1: FRBs can uniquely probe the intergalactic medium via propagation effects, but the signals include the effects of the progenitor and any host galaxy.
Fig. 2: Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger counterparts of possible FRB sources.
Fig. 3: The telescopes involved in the worldwide Deeper Wider Faster (DWF) programme.

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