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The first precise localization of a fast radio burst (FRB), leading to an association with a low metallicity dwarf galaxy at $z=0.193$, has began to shed light on the nature of these mysterious bursts and the physical mechanisms that power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 T. Eftekhari , E. Berger

We use the non-observation of strong lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) in the first three observation runs of LIGO-Virgo detectors to constrain the fraction of dark matter in the form of compact objects in the mass range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 A. Barsode , S. J. Kapadia , P. Ajith

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST/WFC3) ultraviolet and infrared observations of eight fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies with sub-arcsecond localizations, including the hosts of three known repeating FRBs. We quantify their spatial…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several micro- to milliseconds and come from unidentified objects at cosmological distances, most of which are only seen once. Based on recently published data in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiang-Han Cui , Cheng-Min Zhang , Di Li , Jian-Wei Zhang , Bo Peng , Wei-Wei Zhu , Richard Strom , Shuang-Qiang Wang , Na Wang , Qing-Dong Wu , De-Hua Wang , Yi-Yan Yang

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

The frequency-dependent time delays in fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to constrain the photon mass, if the FRB redshifts are known, but the similarity between the frequency dependences of dispersion due to plasma effects and a photon…

We present GeMS/GSAOI observations of five fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies with sub-arcsecond localizations. We examine and quantify their spatial distributions and locations with respect to their host galaxy light distributions,…

Recently, both theoretical arguments and observational evidence suggested that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If such FRB/GRB association systems are commonly detected in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 He Gao , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

Cosmological observations, e.g., cosmic microwave background, have precisely measured the spectrum of primordial curvature perturbation on larger scales, but smaller scales are still poorly constrained. Since primordial black holes (PBHs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Zong-Hong Zhu

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains enigmatic. Highly energetic radio pulses of millisecond duration, FRBs are observed with dispersion measures consistent with an extragalactic source. A variety of models have been proposed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-08 Thomas Callister , Jonah Kanner , Alan Weinstein

Ultralight axion or axionlike particles are one of the most promising candidates for dark matter because they are a well-motivated solution for the theoretical strong $CP$ problem and observational issues on small scales, i.e. the core-cusp…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Ran Gao , Zhengxiang Li , Kai Liao , He Gao , Bing Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Numerous microlensing survey programs have constrained the possibility of dark matter existing in the form of compact objects within the Galactic halo. These constraints on the dark matter fraction were derived under the assumption of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 K. A. Toshchenko , P. V. Baklanov , K. M. Belotsky , S. I. Blinnikov

If the halo dark matter consists of faint baryonic stars, then these objects probably formed at an early epoch within large associations with similar dynamical properties to globular or open clusters. We use the luminosity function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ben Moore , Joseph Silk

The large-scale distribution of baryons is sensitive to gravitational collapse, mergers, and galactic feedback. Known as the Cosmic Web, its large-scale structure (LSS) can be classified as halos, filaments, and voids. Fast Radio Bursts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Charles R. H. Walker , Laura G. Spitler , Yin-Zhe Ma , Cheng Cheng , M. Celeste Artale , Cameron Hummels

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be scattered by ionized gas in their local environments, host galaxies, intervening galaxies along their lines-of-sight, the intergalactic medium, and the Milky Way. The relative contributions of these different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-10 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee

The widths, dispersion measures, dispersion indices and fluences of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. Observation of dispersion indices close to their low density limit of $-2$ sets a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 J. I. Katz

Fast Radio Burst (FRB) dispersion measures (DMs) record the presence of ionized baryons that are otherwise invisible to other techniques enabling resolution of the matter distribution in the cosmic web. In this work, we aim to estimate the…

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer unique probes of diverse cosmological phenomena due to their characteristic properties, including short duration timescale and high dispersion measure. This study investigates two distinct theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

Dispersion measure (DM) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are commonly used as a indicator of distance assuming that DM in excess of the expected amount within the Milky Way in the direction of each FRB arise mostly from the inter-galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yuu Niino