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Cosmological Parameter Estimate from Persistent Radio Sources of Fast Radio Bursts

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-05-20 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We introduce a novel method to constrain the Hubble constant (H0H_0) by combining fast radio bursts (FRBs) and their persistent radio sources (PRSs) through the observationally validated Yang relation, LνRM L_{\nu} \propto | \mathrm{RM} | , which links PRS luminosity to the rotation measure (RM) of the associated FRB. Using a mock sample of PRSs, we demonstrate that the Yang relation can help to unravel the degeneracies among H0H_0, baryon density parameter Ωb\Omega_b, and baryon fraction in the intergalactic medium fIGMf_{\mathrm{IGM}} in the traditional approach of using dispersion measure only to perform cosmological analyses. Our method employs a two-stage Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis to constrain H0H_0. Using the available data of six observed PRS systems, we obtain a preliminary constraint of H0=75±30 kms1Mpc1H_0 = 75 \pm 30~\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}\,Mpc^{-1}}. We briefly discuss possible refinements of the method by reducing residual degeneracies and systematic uncertainties using future data and physical modeling. Our results indicate that the Yang relation can potentially become a new probe for performing FRB cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.2504.13132,
  title  = {Cosmological Parameter Estimate from Persistent Radio Sources of Fast Radio Bursts},
  author = {Zi-Liang Zhang and Bing Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13132},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in ApJL; 8 pages, 3 figures; comments are welcome!