An overview of fast radio bursts.

Gustavo E. Romero.

Serie: Trabajos publicados del IAR ; no. 1420

XV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting Cartagena 2016 (Eds. Mario Armando Higuera Garzón & Santiago Vargas Domínguez) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 49, pp. 7-10 (2017).

Resumen: I offer a short review of the current understanding of fast radio bursts: episodic flares of radio waves detected at low frequencies with durations of about 1 ms. These events seem to have an extragalactic origin. I summarize the evidence supporting this statement and I discuss some of the theoretical models proposed so far to explain their nature