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We present constraints on the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) using large cosmological simulations. We calculate contributions to FRB dispersion measures (DMs) from the Milky Way, from the local Universe, from cosmological large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 K. Dolag , B. M. Gaensler , A. M. Beck , M. C. Beck

The spatial and velocity distributions of dark matter particles in the Milky Way Halo affect the signals expected to be observed in searches for dark matter. Results from direct detection experiments are often analyzed assuming a simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-08 Chris Kelso , Christopher Savage , Monica Valluri , Katherine Freese , Gregory S. Stinson , Jeremy Bailin

Velocity dispersion measurements of recently discovered Milky Way satellites with $M_V\gtrsim-7$ imply they posses high mass-to-light ratios. The expected velocity dispersions due to their baryonic mass are $\sim0.2$\,km\,s$^{-1}$, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alan W. McConnachie , Patrick Cote

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Thus far, they have been blindly detected at millisecond timescales with dispersion measures (DMs) between 110--2600\,pc\,cm$^{-3}$. However, the observed pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Liam Connor

We present the discovery and subarcsecond localization of a new Fast Radio Burst with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and realfast search system. The FRB was discovered on 2019 June 14 with a dispersion measure of 959 pc/cm3. This is…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer a powerful probe of the ionized Universe through their dispersion measures (DM). While a significant fraction of the DM arises from the intergalactic medium (IGM), the contributions from the host galaxy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gunalan Muthusami , Gopal Kashyap

Pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) have been used to model the electron density of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Galactic disk as a plane-parallel medium, despite significant scatter in the DM-distance distribution and strong evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-10 Stella Koch Ocker , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

The pristine underdense patches of the Universe, cosmic voids, are powerful cosmological laboratories, uniquely sensitive to dark energy, modified gravity, and neutrino masses, yet their baryonic content remains uncharacterized. We present…

The rotation curve of the Milky Way is commonly used to estimate the local dark matter density $\rho_{{\rm DM},\odot}$. However, the estimates are subject to the choice of the distribution of baryons needed in this type of studies. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 P. F. de Salas , K. Malhan , K. Freese , K. Hattori , M. Valluri

Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments aim to place constraints on the DM--nucleon scattering cross-section and the DM particle mass. These constraints depend sensitively on the assumed local DM density and velocity distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Robert Poole-McKenzie , Andreea S. Font , Billy Boxer , Ian G. McCarthy , Sergey Burdin , Sam G. Stafford , Shaun T. Brown

Most of the baryons in the low-redshift universe reside in a warm/hot component which is difficult to detect with standard absorption/emission line techniques. We propose to use quasar refractive scintillation as an useful, complementary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrea Ferrara , Rosalba Perna

The dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a valuable tool for probing the baryonic content of the intergalactic and the circumgalactic medium of the intervening galaxies along the sightlines. However, interpreting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-26 Jiale Wang , Zheng Zhou , Xiaochuan Jiang , Taotao Fang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a sensitive probe of the electron distribution in both the large-scale structure and their host galaxies through the dispersion measure (DM) of the radio pulse. Baryonic feedback models are crucial for modelling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Alexander Theis , Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Reischke , Jochen Weller

The dispersion measure (DM) is one of the key attributes of radio pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). There is a mistaken view that the DM is an accurate measure of the column density of electrons between the observer and the source. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 S. R. Kulkarni

We have studied the dark matter (DM) distribution in a approx 10^12 h^-1 M_sun mass halo extracted from a simulation consistent with the concordance cosmology, where the physics regulating the transformation of gas into stars was allowed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Susana E. Pedrosa , Patricia B. Tissera , Cecilia Scannapieco

A sample of 14 FRBs with measured redshifts and scattering times is used to assess contributions to dispersion and scattering from the intergalactic medium (IGM), galaxy halos, and the disks of host galaxies. The IGM and galaxy halos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 James M. Cordes , Stella Koch Ocker , Shami Chatterjee

The observational value of the velocity dispersion, $\Delta\upsilon$, is missing in the Dark Matter (DM) puzzle. Non-zero or non-thermal DM velocities can drastically influence Large Scale Structure and the 21-cm temperature at the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Iván Rodríguez-Montoya , Vladimir Ávila-Reese , Abdel Pérez-Lorenzana , Jorge Venzor

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients that offer valuable insight of intergalactic medium (IGM). However, the dispersion measure (DM) contributed by IGM ($\rm{DM_{IGM}}$) is degenerated with that from the host galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-03 Rui-Nan Li , Ke Xu , Dao-Hong Gao , Qin Wu , Shuang-Xi Yi , F. Y. Wang

We present an analysis of the effects of dissipational baryonic physics on the local dark matter (DM) distribution at the location of the Sun, with an emphasis on the consequences for direct detection experiments. Our work is based on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Annalisa Pillepich , Michael Kuhlen , Javiera Guedes , Piero Madau

We investigate the distribution of missing baryons in the cosmic filaments by stacking $\sim 30,700$ filaments across the northern and southern SDSS sky regions using Planck Compton-$y$ and CMB lensing maps. Filaments are identified using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jianzhuo Li , Yi Zheng , Weishan Zhu