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Aims: The enigma of the missing baryons poses a prominent and unresolved problem in astronomy. Dispersion measures (DM) serve as a distinctive observable of fast radio bursts (FRBs). They quantify the electron column density along each line…

Fast radio bursts (FRB) probe the electron density of the universe along the path of propagation, making high redshift FRB sensitive to the helium reionization epoch. We analyze the signal to noise with which a detection of the amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-18 Eric V. Linder

We investigate the feasibility of detecting and probing various components of the ionized intergalactic medium (IGM) and their turbulent properties at radio frequencies through observations of scatter broadening of compact sources. There is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 J. Y. Koay , J. -P. Macquart

The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) provides a unique way to probe ionised baryons in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Cosmological models with different parameters lead to different DM-redshift ($\mathrm{DM}-z$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Nastasha Wijers , Vivek Gupta , Chris Flynn , Joop Schaye , Emma Ryan-Weber

The precise localization (<1'') of multiple fast radio bursts (FRBs) to z>0.1 galaxies has confirmed that the dispersion measures (DMs) of these enigmatic sources afford a new opportunity to probe the diffuse ionized gas around and in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 J. Xavier Prochaska , Yong Zheng

This paper investigates the utility of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as novel observational probes to constrain models of interacting dark energy (IDE). By leveraging FRB dispersion measures (DMs) and redshifts, we perform a comprehensive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Hang Yan , Yu Pan , Jia-Xin Wang , Wen-Xiao Xu , Ze-Hui Peng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the electron column density along the line of sight and hence can be used to probe foreground structures. One such structure is the Galactic halo. In this work, we use a total of 98 high Galactic latitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Jordan Hoffmann , Clancy James , Jason Xavier Prochaska , Marcin Glowacki

Five fast radio bursts (FRBs), including three apparently non-repeating ones FRB 180924, FRB 181112, and FRB 190523, and two repeaters, FRB 121102 and FRB 180916.J0158+65, have already been localized so far. We apply a method developed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Zhengxiang Li , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense radio flashes from the sky that are characterized by millisecond durations and Jansky-level flux densities. We carried out a statistical analysis on FRBs discovered. Their mean dispersion measure, after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 LongBiao Li , YongFeng Huang , ZhiBin Zhang , Di Li , Bing Li

The potential association between gravitational waves (GWs) and fast radio bursts (FRBs) offers a unique multi-messenger probe for cosmology. In this paper, we develop a redshift-independent framework to constrain cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Jiaming Zhuge , Marios Kalomenopoulos , Carl-Johan Haster , Bing Zhang

Context: Fast Radio Bursts are transient radio pulses from presumably compact stellar sources of extragalactic origin. With new telescopes detecting multiple events per day, statistical methods are required in order to interpret…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Stefan Hackstein , Marcus Brüggen , Franco Vazza , Luiz F. S. Rodrigues

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have excessive dispersion measures (DMs) and an all-sky distribution, which point toward an extragalactic or even a cosmological origin. We develop a method to extract the mean host galaxy DM ($\left\langle{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Yuan-Pei Yang , Rui Luo , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

In the age of large-scale galaxy and lensing surveys, such as DESI, Euclid, Roman and Rubin, we stand poised to usher in a transformative new phase of data-driven cosmology. To fully harness the capabilities of these surveys, it is critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Isabel Medlock , Daisuke Nagai , Daniel Anglés Alcázar , Matthew Gebhardt

Gravitational wave astronomy presents a promising opportunity to directly observe scalar-induced gravitational waves originating from the early universe. Experiments, including ground-based interferometers like LIGO and Virgo, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Jun Li , Guanghai Guo , Pengfei Yan

We propose a novel means of directly measuring cosmological distances using scintillated microlensing of fast radio bursts (FRBs). In standard strong lensing measurements of cosmic expansion, the main source of systematic uncertainty lies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Anna Tsai , Dylan L. Jow , Daniel Baker , Ue-Li Pen

Identification and follow up observations of the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) not only help us understand the environments in which the FRB progenitors reside, but also provide a unique way of probing the cosmological…

The missing baryons are usually thought to reside in galaxy filaments as warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). From previous studies, giant radio galaxies are usually associated with galaxy groups, which normally trace the WHIM. We propose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-05 Bo Peng , Ru-Rong Chen , Richard Strom

We investigate the Missing Baryon problem using Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to trace cosmic baryons. Our CROCODILE simulations, performed with the GADGET3/4-OSAKA smoothed particle hydrodynamics code, include star formation, supernova (SN) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhao Joseph Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Khee-Gan Lee , Keita Fukushima , Kazuki Tomaru , Bing Zhang , Isabel Medlock , Daisuke Nagai

We investigate how the statistical properties of dispersion measure (DM) and apparent flux density/fluence of (non-repeating) fast radio bursts (FRBs) are determined by unknown cosmic rate density history [$\rhoFRB (z)$] and luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-10 Yuu Niino

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration at cosmological distances. Since compact dark matter/objects (COs) could act as lenses and cause split of this kind of very short duration signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Kai Liao , S. -B. Zhang , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao
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