Colloquium – Riccardo La Placa: FRBs from neutron star magnetospheres: a unified model

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have, since their first detection, ranked among the most puzzling events in the sky owing to the extreme energies involved and the presence of both repeating and non-repeating sources: 15 years and thousands of bursts later, their emission mechanism still eludes us. I will present a new unified model for FRBs as magnetospheric events from neutron stars which naturally accounts for both types of behaviours, and show some predictions (and first applications) of the model on the expected energy and redshift distributions, both for the population at large and individual, well-studied sources.