English
Related papers

Related papers: Probing Diffuse Gas with Fast Radio Bursts

200 papers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio bursts characterized by millisecond durations, high Galactic latitude positions, and high dispersion measures. Very recently, the cosmological origin of FRB 150418 has been confirmed by \cite{kea16}, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Xue-Feng Wu , Song-Bo Zhang , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

Current measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey (DESI DR2), when combined with data from Type Ia supernovae (SNe), challenge the observational viability of the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Thais Lemos

The cosmic baryon density fraction ($\Omega_{\rm b}$) is intrinsically correlated with the Hubble constant ($H_0$) through the critical density of the Universe. In the context of the decade-long $H_0$ tension, the significant discrepancy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ji-Guo Zhang , Ji-Yu Song , Wan-Peng Sun , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We study the formation of multiphase gas in the post-accretion-shock regions of cosmic sheets, filaments, and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of haloes, i.e., cosmic web objects (CWOs). Local instabilities in the hot medium result in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Sharon Lapiner , Nir Mandelker , Paz Beniamini , S. Peng Oh

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

Recent baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration, combined with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observations, suggest a preference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Yi-Ying Wang , Shi-Jie Gao , Yi-Zhong Fan

We constrain the photon mass from well-localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) using Bayes inference method. The probability distributions of dispersion measures (DM) of host galaxy and intergalactic medium are properly taken into account. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-21 Hai-Nan Lin , Li Tang , Rui Zou

The discovery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) at cosmological distances has opened a powerful window on otherwise unseen matter in the Universe. In the 2020s, observations of $>10^{4}$ FRBs will assess the baryon contents and physical…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a sensitive probe of ionized baryons through their dispersion measure (DM). In addition to slowly evolving cosmological terms, at least two repeaters now show clear secular DM-decrease episodes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Zhao Joseph Zhang , Gaku Kawashima , Shiu-Hang Lee , Kentaro Nagamine , Bing Zhang , Yusei Fujimaru

A nonzero-mass hypothesis for the photon can produces a frequency-dependent dispersion of light, which results in arrival-time differences of photons with different frequencies originating from a given transient source. Extragalactic fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Recently, Thornton and coworkers (2013) confirmed a class of millisecond radio bursts likely of extragalactic origin that is well-suited for estimating dispersion measures (DMs). We calculate the probability distribution of DM(z) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew McQuinn

Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRB's) is a central unsolved problem in astrophysics that is severely hampered by their poorly determined distance scale. Determining the redshift distribution of FRB's appears to require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith , Kiyoshi W. Masui

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transient events, a subset of which have been localized to their host galaxies. Their high dispersion measures offer valuable insights into the ionized plasma along their line of sight, enabling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, mostly millisecond-duration transients of extragalactic origin whose emission mechanisms remain unknown. As FRB signals propagate through ionized media, they experience frequency-dependent delays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Hosein Rajabi , Zhejian Liu , Fereshteh Rajabi , Martin Houde

We reconstruct the extragalactic dispersion measure \ -- redshift relation (${\rm DM_E}-z$ relation) from well-localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) using Bayesian inference method. Then the ${\rm DM_E}-z$ relation is used to infer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasma mostly located in the intergalactic medium. We observe a…

Identifying the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs), and comparing their redshifts and dispersion measures, has unlocked a new probe of the cosmological distribution of ionised gas. However the necessary optical observations to…

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

We summarize our understanding of millisecond radio bursts from an extragalactic population of sources. FRBs occur at an extraordinary rate, thousands per day over the entire sky with radiation energy densities at the source about ten…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

Constrained measurements of fundamental physical constants using astronomical observational data represent a powerful method for investigating potential new physics. In particular, the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Shi-Yuan Wang , Jun-Qing Xia