Multimodal Transformer Based Generic Mixture Density Network for Scattering Timescale Estimation of Fast Radio Bursts

ArXi:2606.03596v1 Announce Type: cross The discovery rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) continues to increase with the advent of new radio facilities and yet extracting their astrophysical parameters such as scattering timescale ($\tau$) remains a significant bottleneck. Current $\tau$ measurement approaches like fitting analytic template models and scattering aware de-convolution are accurate but slow, sensitive to initialization, limited by low signal to noise and often require manual supervision.