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Fast Radio Burst Tomography of the Unseen Universe

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-03-18 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The discovery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) at cosmological distances has opened a powerful window on otherwise unseen matter in the Universe. In the 2020s, observations of >104>10^{4} FRBs will assess the baryon contents and physical conditions in the hot/diffuse circumgalactic, intracluster, and intergalactic medium, and test extant compact-object dark matter models.

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@article{arxiv.1903.06535,
  title  = {Fast Radio Burst Tomography of the Unseen Universe},
  author = {Vikram Ravi and Nicholas Battaglia and Sarah Burke-Spolaor and Shami Chatterjee and James Cordes and Gregg Hallinan and Casey Law and T. Joseph W. Lazio and Kiyoshi Masui and Matthew McQuinn and Julian B. Munoz and Nipuni Palliyaguru and J. Xavier Prochaska and Andrew Seymour and Harish Vedantham and Yong Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06535},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Science white paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey. 15 pages, 3 color figures