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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

Understanding physical mechanisms relies on the accurate determination of fundamental constants, although inherent limitations in experimental techniques introduce uncertainties into these measurements. This paper explores the uncertainties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Surajit Kalita

Recent studies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have led to many theories associating them with young neutron stars. If this is the case, then the presence of supernova ejecta and stellar winds provide a changing dispersion measure (DM) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Anthony L. Piro , B. M. Gaensler

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been found in great numbers, but the physical mechanism of these sources is still a mystery. The redshift evolutions of the FRB energy distribution function and the volumetric rate shed light on the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jia-Ming Zou , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The distribution of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies of all types is poorly constrained. Foreground CGMs contribute an extra amount to the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRB). We measure this DM excess for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiaohan Wu , Matthew McQuinn

We examine the proposal that the dispersion measures (DMs) and Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of extragalactic linearly-polarized fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to probe the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu , B. M. Gaensler

We compare the dispersion measure (DM) statistics of FRBs detected by the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes. We jointly model their DM distributions, exploiting the fact that the telescopes have different survey fluence limits but likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 W. R. Arcus , J. -P. Macquart , M. W. Sammons , C. W. James , R. D. Ekers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered class of GHz-band, ms-duration, Jy-level-flux astrophysical transients, which origin is still a mystery. Exploring their gamma-ray counterpart is crucial for constraining their origin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 G. Principe , L. Di Venere , M. Negro , N. Di Lalla , N. Omodei , R. Di Tria , M. N. Mazziotta , F. Longo

Extragalactic Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have large dispersion measures (DMs) and are unique probes of intergalactic electron density fluctuations. By using the recently released First CHIME/FRB Catalog, we reexamined the structure function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Siyao Xu , David H. Weinberg , Bing Zhang

Models of quantum gravity suggest that the vacuum should be regarded as a medium with quantum structure that may have non-trivial effects on photon propagation, including the violation of Lorentz invariance. Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 John Ellis , Rostislav Konoplich , Nikolaos E. Mavromatos , Linh Nguyen , Alexander S. Sakharov , Edward K. Sarkisyan-Grinbaum

We discuss physical constrains that observations of high brightness temperature coherent radio emission, with brightness temperatures as high as $T_b \sim 10^{35}$ K, impose on the plasma parameters at relativistically moving astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-02 Maxim Lyutikov , Mohammad Rafat

We present constraints on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) derived from the observed dispersion measure (DM) distribution of unlocalized fast radio bursts (FRBs). While localized FRBs with redshift measurements have been used to investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Yang Liu , Jun-Jie Wei , Puxun Wu , Xue-Feng Wu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are astrophysical transients of currently unknown origin, and so far several events have been detected at extragalactic distances. The dispersion measure (DM) of the radio signal is a probe of the integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Lilow

We analyze plasma dispersion and scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to identify the dominant locations of free electrons along their lines of sight and thus constrain the distances of the burst sources themselves. We establish the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-20 J. M. Cordes , R. S. Wharton , L. G. Spitler , S. Chatterjee , I. Wasserman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration radio transients whose physical origins remain debated. To shed light on this, we analyze the CHIME/FRB Catalog 2. By using the probability distribution of dispersion measured (DM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 X. D. Jia , D. H. Gao , J. H. Chen , Q. Wu , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

In recent years, localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as a powerful tool to study the structure of the baryonic matter in the universe. Their dispersion measures (DMs) scale linearly with electron density independent of gas…

We propose that "standard pings", brief broadband radio impulses, can be used to study the three-dimensional clustering of matter in the Universe even in the absence of redshift information. The dispersion of radio waves as they travel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Kris Sigurdson

Nonlinear effects are crucial for the propagation of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) near the source. We study the filamentation of FRBs in the relativistic winds of magnetars, which are commonly invoked as the most natural FRB progenitors. As a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri Lyubarsky , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Lorenzo Sironi , Masanori Iwamoto

We use the dispersion measure (DM) of localised Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to constrain cosmological and host galaxy parameters using simulation-based inference (SBI) for the first time. By simulating the large-scale structure of the electron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Koustav Konar , Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Andrina Nicola , Hendrik Hildebrandt