Radio Transients Over a Wide Range of Timescales

Burst phenomena, spanning a wide range of timescales, are ubiquitous in astrophysics, from less than a millisecond for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to several years for certain maser flares. Understanding their origins and underlying physical processes is a major goal of contemporary astrophysics. Recently, we have applied Dicke’s superradiance, a coherent quantum mechanical radiation mechanism, to the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM) to …