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pith:MCJZHWH2

pith:2026:MCJZHWH22XVOPZONGQXIBUMML5

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Triaxial Magnetars as Sources of Fast Radio Bursts

J. I. Katz

Dynamically triaxial magnetars produce the observed patterns of repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts through alignment and precession.

arxiv:2601.04953 v3 · 2026-01-08 · astro-ph.HE

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Claims

C1strongest claim

If the bursts are narrowly collimated along open field lines, then observed repeating FRB are those few whose rotation axis, open field lines and infrequent radiation point nearly to the observer; in apparently non-repeating FRB these are misaligned and the directions wander across the sky as they rotate.

C2weakest assumption

The bursts are narrowly collimated along open field lines and that the magnetars are dynamically triaxial with precession that moves the radiation pattern into and out of the line of sight on observable timescales.

C3one line summary

Triaxial magnetars explain FRB repetition and duty cycles via collimated emission, rotation, and precessional wandering of the radiation pattern.

References

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[1] Beniamini, P. & Kumar, P. 2025 ApJ 982, 2025

[2] CHIME/FRB Collaboration 2020 Nature 582, 2020

[3] G., Scholz, P.et al.2021 MNRAS 500, 2021

[4] Galaudage, S., Wette, K., Galloway, D. K. & Messenger, C. 2022 MNRAS 509, 2022

[5] Horowitz, C. J. & Kadau, K. 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191102. Katz, J. I. 2016 ApJ 826, 2009

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:03:01.722182Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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609393d8fad5eae7e5cd342e80d18c5f7abc55cc168c87b30140bec5e13eafc7

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arxiv: 2601.04953 · arxiv_version: 2601.04953v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.04953 · pith_short_12: MCJZHWH22XVO · pith_short_16: MCJZHWH22XVOPZON · pith_short_8: MCJZHWH2

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MCJZHWH22XVOPZONGQXIBUMML5 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 609393d8fad5eae7e5cd342e80d18c5f7abc55cc168c87b30140bec5e13eafc7

Canonical record JSON

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