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We analyze the sources of free electrons that produce the large dispersion measures, DM $\approx 300-1600$ (in units cm$^{-3}$ pc), observed toward fast radio bursts (FRBs). Individual galaxies typically produce DM $\sim 25-60$ cm$^{-3}$ pc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 J. Michael Shull , Charles W. Danforth

The recently discovered fast radio bursts (FRBs), presumably of extra-galactic origin, have the potential to become a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We point out a few such potential applications. We provide expressions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Z. Zheng , E. O. Ofek , S. R. Kulkarni , J. D. Neill , M. Juric

Cosmic filaments are thought to host a substantial fraction of the missing baryons at redshifts $z<2$. In this study, we constraint the baryonic content of these filaments using localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Filaments are identified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Qi-Rui Yang , Yi Zheng , Long-Long Feng

Baryonic feedback fundamentally alters the total matter distribution on small to intermediate cosmological scales, posing a significant challenge for contemporary cosmological analyses. Direct tracers of the baryon distribution are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz

A radio source that faded over six days, with a redshift of $z\approx0.5$ host, has been identified by Keane et al. (2016) as the transient afterglow to a fast radio burst (FRB 150418). We report follow-up radio and optical observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-14 H. K. Vedantham , V. Ravi , K. Mooley , D. Frail , G. Hallinan , S. R. Kulkarni

The distances of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources are currently unknown. We show that the 21-cm absorption line of hydrogen can be used to infer the redshifts of FRB sources, and determine whether they are Galactic or extragalactic. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Ben Margalit , Abraham Loeb

We calculate the dispersion measure (DM) contributed by the intergalactic medium (IGM) to the total measured DM for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We use the MareNostrum Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (MICE) Onion Universe simulation (Fosalba…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Pol , M. T. Lam , M. A. McLaughlin , T. J. W. Lazio , J. M. Cordes

We calculate the dispersion measures (DMs) contributed by host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Based on a few host galaxy observations, a large sample of galaxy with similar properties to observed ones has been selected from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 G. Q. Zhang , Hai Yu , J. H. He , F. Y. Wang

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration astronomical radio pulses of unknown physical origin that appear to come from extragalactic distances. Previous follow-up observations have failed to find additional bursts at the same dispersion…

The phenomenon of fast radio bursts (FRBs) was discovered in 2007. These are powerful (0.1-100 Jy) single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds, large dispersion measures, and record high brightness temperatures suggesting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-14 S. B. Popov , K. A. Postnov , M. S. Pshirkov

Several fast radio bursts have been discovered recently, showing a bright, highly dispersed millisecond radio pulse. The pulses do not repeat and are not associated with a known pulsar or gamma-ray burst. The high dispersion suggests…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-15 Heino Falcke , Luciano Rezzolla

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are recently discovered extra-galactic radio transients which are now used as novel cosmological probes. We show how the Bursts' Dispersion Measure can model-independently probe the history of Hydrogen reionization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Stefan Heimersheim

Six cases of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have recently been discovered. The FRBs are bright (~0.1 - 1 Jy) and brief (~ 1 ms) pulses of radio emission with dispersion measures (DMs) that exceed Galactic values, and hence FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Abraham Loeb , Yossi Shvartzvald , Dan Maoz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts. Recent observations of a Galactic FRB suggest that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars, but the origin of cosmological FRBs is still not settled. Here…

We discuss the possibility of using fast radio bursts (FRBs), if cosmological, as a viable cosmic probe. We find out that the contribution of the host galaxies to the detected dispersion measures can be inapparent for the FRBs not from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 Bei Zhou , Xiang Li , Tao Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

We discuss the effect of dispersion delay due to intervening ionized media in the radio emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). For high redshift GRBs ($z \ga 3$), the ionized intergalactic medium (IGM) should be the dominant source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Susumu Inoue

This theoretical work investigates different models to predict the redshift of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from their observed dispersion measure (DM) and other reported properties. We performed an extensive revision of the FRBs with confirmed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Luz Ángela García , Eduard Piratova-Moreno , Felipe González-Alarcón , Jhonier Rangel

The dispersion measure(DM) of fast radio burst encodes important information such as its distance, properties of intervening medium. Based on simulations in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG projects, we analyze the DM of FRBs contributed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Yang Wang , Lin Tang , Long-Long Feng

We examine how the various observable statistical properties of the FRB population relate back to their fundamental physical properties in a model independent manner. We analyse the flux density and fluence distributions of Fast Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Ron Ekers