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We explore a novel search strategy for dark matter in the form of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) such as primordial black holes or dense mini-halos in the mass range from $10^{-4}$ to 0.1 solar masses. These objects can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Andrey Katz , Joachim Kopp , Sergey Sibiryakov , Wei Xue

The recent detection of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has generated strong interest in identifying the origin of these bright, non-repeating, highly dispersed pulses. The principal limitation in understanding the origin of these bursts is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Keith W. Bannister , Greg. J. Madsen

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) form a part of dark matter has been considered for a long time but poorly constrained over a wide mass range. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Kai Liao , Chenhui Niu , He Gao , Zhiqi Huang , Lu Huang , Bing Zhang

Most diffuse baryons, including the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the cosmic web, remain unmeasured and unconstrained. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) offer an unparalleled method to measure…

Fast radio burst (FRB) science primarily revolves around two facets: the origin of these bursts and their use in cosmological studies. This work follows from previous redshift-dispersion measure ($z$-DM) analyses in which we model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jordan Hoffmann , Clancy W. James , Marcin Glowacki , Jason X. Prochaska , Alexa C. Gordon , Adam T. Deller , Ryan M. Shannon , Stuart D. Ryder

Starburst galaxies are undergoing intense episodes of star formation. In these galaxies, gas is ejected into the surrounding environment through winds created by the effect of hot stars and supernova explosions. When interacting with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 C. A. Galante , J. Saponara , G. E. Romero , P. Benaglia

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a mysterious astrophysical phenomenon of bright pulses emitted at radio frequencies, and they are expected to be frequently detected in the future. The dispersion measures of FRBs are related to cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Ze-Wei Zhao , Zheng-Xiang Li , Jing-Zhao Qi , He Gao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The possibility that part of the dark matter is made of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) remains poorly constrained over a wide range of masses, and especially in the $20-100\, M_\odot$ window. We show that strong gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Julian B. Muñoz , Ely D. Kovetz , Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski

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

Despite existing constraints, it remains possible that up to $35\%$ of all dark matter is comprised of compact objects, such as the black holes in the 10-100\,M$_\odot$ range whose existence has been confirmed by LIGO. The strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Mawson W. Sammons , Jean-Pierre Macquart , Ron D. Ekers , Ryan M. Shannon , Hyerin Cho , J. Xavier Prochaska , Adam T. Deller , Cherie K. Day

Here we present Halo-FDCA, a robust open source Python package for modeling and estimating total flux densities of radio (mini) halos in galaxy clusters. Radio halos are extended ( ~200 - 1500 kpc in size) synchrotron emitting sources found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-26 J. M. Boxelaar , R. J. van Weeren , A. Botteon

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 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

The $\Lambda$CDM model successfully explains the majority of cosmological observations. However, the $\Lambda$CDM model is challenged by Hubble tension, a remarkable difference of Hubble constant $H_0$ between measurements from local probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-18 Q. Wu , G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang

Cosmological inference from weak lensing (WL) surveys is increasingly limited by uncertainties in baryonic physics, which suppress the non-linear matter power spectrum on small scales. Multi-probe analyses that incorporate complementary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Amy Wayland , David Alonso , Robert Reischke

There are various surveys that will provide excellent data to search for and localize Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The BINGO project will be one such survey, and this collaboration has already estimated a FRB detection rate that the project…

Photoheating of the gas in low-mass dark matter (DM) haloes prevents baryons from cooling, leaving the haloes free of stars. Gas in these 'dark' haloes remains exposed to the ultraviolet background (UVB), and so is expected to emit via…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-09 Calvin Sykes , Michele Fumagalli , Ryan Cooke , Tom Theuns , Alejandro Benitez-Llambay

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a mysterious flash phenomenon detected in radio wavelengths with a duration of only a few milliseconds, and they may also have prompt gamma-ray flashes. Here we carry out a blind search for msec-duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-07 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani , Norita Kawanaka

Measurements of [Fe/H] and [$\alpha$/Fe] can probe the minor merging history of a galaxy, providing a direct way to test the hierarchical assembly paradigm. While measurements of [$\alpha$/Fe] have been made in the stellar halo of the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Ivanna Escala , Evan N. Kirby , Karoline M. Gilbert , Emily C. Cunningham , Jennifer Wojno