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The pristine underdense patches of the Universe, cosmic voids, are powerful cosmological laboratories, uniquely sensitive to dark energy, modified gravity, and neutrino masses, yet their baryonic content remains uncharacterized. We present…

We explore the potential for improving constraints on gravity by leveraging correlations in the dispersion measure derived from Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in combination with cosmic shear. Specifically, we focus on Horndeski gravity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Dennis Neumann , Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Hendrik Hildebrandt

The spatial curvature of the Universe remains a central question in modern cosmology. In this work, we explore the potential of localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as a novel tool to constrain the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$ in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Gustavo E. Romero

In this paper, we study the evolution of the ionization fraction $x_e(z)$ during the epoch of reionization by using the dispersion measurements (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Different from the previous studies, here we turn to consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Ji-Ping Dai , Jun-Qing Xia

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients. As they propagate through the interstellar medium, they interact with free electrons, resulting in dispersion. The corresponding dispersion measure (DM) is referred to as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Yi Feng , Dengke Zhou , Y. -K. Zhang , D. Li , Jianhua Fang , Jiaying Xu , Chenyuan Xu , Jintao Xie

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond bursts of radio radiation at frequencies of about 1 GHz, recently discovered in pulsar surveys. They have not yet been definitively identified with any other astronomical object or phenomenon. The bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-10 J. I. Katz

The field of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) science is currently thriving and growing rapidly. The lines of active investigation include theoretical and observational aspects of these enigmatic millisecond radio signals. These pursuits are for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-05 E. F. Keane

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed, sporadic radio pulses that are likely extragalactic in nature. Here we investigate the constraints on the source population from surveys carried out at frequencies $<1$~GHz. All but one FRB has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Kaustubh Rajwade , Duncan Lorimer

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 dispersion measure (DM) of high-redshift $(z \gtrsim 6)$ transient objects such as Fast Radio Bursts can be a powerful tool to probe the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization. In this paper, we study the variance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Thus far, they have been blindly detected at millisecond timescales with dispersion measures (DMs) between 110--2600\,pc\,cm$^{-3}$. However, the observed pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Liam Connor

One of the most challenging problems in cosmology is the Hubble tension, a discrepancy in the predicted expansion rate of the Universe. We leverage the sensitivity of the Dispersion Measure (DM) from Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Eduard Fernando Piratova-Moreno , Luz Ángela García , Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , Carolina Cabrera

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

We develop an analytical framework to predict the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of dispersion measures (DMs) for fast radio bursts (FRBs) within the baryonification (BFC) model. BFC provides a computationally efficient…

We constrain the redshift dependence of (rest frame) host galaxy dispersion measures of localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) by assuming it to vary as a simple power law ($\propto (1+z)^{\alpha}$). We simultaneously fit $\alpha$ as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Paz Beniamini

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients from cosmological distances. Their isotropic energies follow a power-law distribution with a possible exponential cutoff, but their intrinsic redshift distribution, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Rachel C. Zhang , Bing Zhang , Ye Li , Duncan R. Lorimer

The dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a valuable tool for probing the baryonic content of the intergalactic and the circumgalactic medium of the intervening galaxies along the sightlines. However, interpreting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-26 Jiale Wang , Zheng Zhou , Xiaochuan Jiang , Taotao Fang

Astronomical radio bursts disperse while traveling through the interstellar medium. To optimally detect a short-duration signal within a frequency band, we have to precisely compensate for the pulse dispersion, which is a computationally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

A sample of 14 FRBs with measured redshifts and scattering times is used to assess contributions to dispersion and scattering from the intergalactic medium (IGM), galaxy halos, and the disks of host galaxies. The IGM and galaxy halos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 James M. Cordes , Stella Koch Ocker , Shami Chatterjee