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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic radio pulses whose origins are poorly understood. The dispersion measure of host galaxy (${\rm DM_{host}}$) provides critical insights into the local environment of FRB sources. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Yu Sang , Hai-Nan Lin

The observed tightness of the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation (MDAR) poses a fine-tuning challenge to current models of galaxy formation. We propose that this relation could arise from collisional interactions between baryons and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-13 Benoit Famaey , Justin Khoury , Riccardo Penco

We analyze deterministic and random temporal variations in dispersion measure (DM) from the full three-dimensional velocities of pulsars with respect to the solar system, combined with electron-density variations on a wide range of length…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-29 Michael T. Lam , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee , Megan L. Jones , Maura A. McLaughlin , John W. Armstrong

The existence of millicharged dark matter (mDM) can leave a measurable imprint on 21-cm cosmology through mDM-baryon scattering. However, the minimal scenario is severely constrained by existing cosmological bounds on both the fraction of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Hongwan Liu , Nadav Joseph Outmezguine , Diego Redigolo , Tomer Volansky

For future surveys of fast radio bursts (FRBs), we clarify information available from cosmic dispersion measures (DMs) through cross-correlation analyses of foreground dark matter haloes (hosting galaxies and galaxy clusters) with their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Masato Shirasaki , Ryuichi Takahashi , Ken Osato , Kunihito Ioka

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

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Susana E. Pedrosa , Patricia B. Tissera , Cecilia Scannapieco

The sensitivity of direct detection experiments depends on the phase-space distribution of dark matter near the Sun, which can be modeled theoretically using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Dylan Folsom , Carlos Blanco , Mariangela Lisanti , Lina Necib , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the density of electrons in the intergalactic medium (IGM) along their lines-of-sight, including the average density versus distance to the source and its variations in direction.…

Approximately half of the Universe's baryons are in a form that has been hard to detect directly. However, the missing component can be traced through the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect with weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Yin-Zhe Ma , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Gary Hinshaw , Alireza Hojjati , Douglas Scott , Joe Zuntz

We develop an analytical framework to predict the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of dispersion measures (DMs) for fast radio bursts (FRBs) within the baryonification (BFC) model. BFC provides a computationally efficient…

It is proposed to search for scintillation of extragalactic sources through the last unknown baryonic structures. Appropriate observation of the scintillation process described here should allow one to detect column density stochastic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Moniez

We propose a new approach to the missing baryons problem. Building on the common assumption that the missing baryons are in the form of the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM), we further assumed here that the galaxy luminosity density can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 J. Nevalainen , E. Tempel , L. J. Liivamägi , E. Branchini , M. Roncarelli , C. Giocoli , P. Heinämäki , E. Saar , A. Tamm , A. Finoguenov , P. Nurmi , M. Bonamente

Observations reveal a uniform Kolmogorov turbulence throughout the diffuse ionized interstellar medium (ISM) and supersonic turbulence preferentially located in the Galactic plane. Correspondingly, we consider the Galactic distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Modern cosmology and galaxy formation rely on an understanding of how cosmic baryons are distributed, a significant portion of which exist in the diffuse gas confined to halos. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising probe of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-20 Samuel McCarty , Liam Connor , Ralf M. Konietzka

We report on a new method for incorporating interactions between dark matter (DM) and baryons in cosmological simulations, capable of handling the challenging regime in which the dark matter particle mass is comparable to or lighter than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Connor Hainje , Glennys R. Farrar

Cosmic voids are promising tools for cosmological tests due to their sensitivity to dark energy, modified gravity and alternative cosmological scenarios. Most previous studies in the literature of void properties use cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-30 Enrique Paillas , Claudia D. P. Lagos , Nelson Padilla , Patricia Tissera , John Helly , Matthieu Schaller

The application of fast radio bursts (FRBs) as probes to investigate astrophysics and cosmology requires the proper modelling of the dispersion measures of Milky Way (${\rm DM_{MW}}$) and host galaxy (${\rm DM_{host}}$). ${\rm DM_{MW}}$ can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Li Tang

About half of the expected total baryon budget in the local Universe is `missing'. Hydrodynamical simulations suggest that most of the missing baryons are located in a mildly overdense, warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Susana Planelles , Petar Mimica , Vicent Quilis , Carlos Cuesta-Martínez

Upcoming advances in galaxy surveys and cosmic microwave background data will enable measurements of the anisotropic distribution of diffuse gas in filaments and superclusters at redshift $z=1$ and beyond, observed through the thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Martine Lokken , Weiguang Cui , J. Richard Bond , Renée Hložek , Norman Murray , Romeel Davé , Alexander van Engelen