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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been suggested as an excellent celestial laboratory for testing the zero-mass hypothesis of the photon. In this work, we use the dispersion measure (DM)--redshift measurements of 23 localized FRBs to revisit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Martín López-Corredoira

One of the key limitations of large-scale structure surveys of the current and future generation, such as Euclid, LSST-Rubin or Roman, is the influence of feedback processes on the distribution of matter in the Universe. This effect, called…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Robert Reischke , Dennis Neumann , Klara Antonia Bertmann , Steffen Hagstotz , Hendrik Hildebrandt

The microlensing effect has developed into a powerful technique for a diverse range of applications including exoplanet discoveries, structure of the Milky Way, constraints on MAssive Compact Halo Objects, and measurements of the size and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Xuechun Chen , Yiping Shu , Guoliang Li , Wenwen Zheng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be explained by collapsing axion stars, imposing constraints on the axion parameter space and providing valuable guidance for experimental axion searches. In the traditional post-inflationary model, axion stars…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-21 Haoran Di , Zhu Yi , Haihao Shi , Yungui Gong

For future surveys of fast radio bursts (FRBs), we clarify information available from cosmic dispersion measures (DMs) through cross-correlation analyses of foreground dark matter haloes (hosting galaxies and galaxy clusters) with their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Masato Shirasaki , Ryuichi Takahashi , Ken Osato , Kunihito Ioka

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-scale radio pulses, which originate in distant galaxies and are produced by unknown sources. The mystery remains partially because of the typical difficulty in localising FRBs to host galaxies.…

High redshift Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are expected to be extremely powerful probes of our Universe. However, while a significant number of FRBs are expected to exist at high redshift, detecting them has been difficult, with only a handful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Mawson W Sammons , Evan Davies-Velie , Matt Dobbs , Zarif Kader , Seth R. Siegel , Jonathan Sievers

Combining high time and frequency resolution full-polarisation spectra of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with knowledge of their host galaxy properties provides an opportunity to study both the emission mechanism generating them and the impact of…

Stellar microlensing observations tightly constrain compact object dark matter in the mass range $(10^{-11} - 10^{3}) M_{\odot}$. Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) form clusters, and it has been argued that these microlensing constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Matthew Gorton , Anne M. Green

We propose a novel means of directly measuring cosmological distances using scintillated microlensing of fast radio bursts (FRBs). In standard strong lensing measurements of cosmic expansion, the main source of systematic uncertainty lies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Anna Tsai , Dylan L. Jow , Daniel Baker , Ue-Li Pen

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

Many lines of evidence suggest that nonbaryonic dark matter constitutes roughly 30% of the critical closure density, but the composition of this dark matter is unknown. One class of candidates for the dark matter is compact objects formed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Coleman Miller

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

In fuzzy dark matter (FDM) cosmologies, the dark matter consists of ultralight bosons ($m\lesssim10^{-20}$ eV). The astrophysically large de Broglie wavelengths of such particles hinder the formation of low-mass dark matter halos. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz , Daniel Grin , Guochao Sun

We consider future cosmological tests based on observations of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). We use Illustris Simulation to realistically estimate the scatter in the dispersion measure (DM) of FRBs caused by the inhomogeneous distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-12 M. Jaroszynski

Some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to be caused by the mergers of binary neutron stars which may sometimes produce massive neutron star remnants capable of producing extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs). We conducted a deep…

The ground-breaking detections of gravitational waves from black hole mergers by LIGO have rekindled interest in primordial black holes (PBHs) and the possibility of dark matter being composed of PBHs. It has been suggested that PBHs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Qirong Zhu , Eugene Vasiliev , Yuexing Li , Yipeng Jing

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of short-duration transients at radio wavelengths with inferred astrophysical origin. The prototypical FRB is a broadband signal that occurs over the extent of the receiver frequency range, is narrow in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Griffin Foster , Aris Karastergiou , Marisa Geyer , Mayuresh Surnis , Golnoosh Golpayegani , Kejia Lee , Duncan Lorimer , Danny C. Price , Kaustubh Rajwade

A handful of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are now known to repeat. However, the question remains --- do they all? We report on an extensive observational campaign with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), Parkes, and Robert…

We present 2-4 GHz observations of polarized radio galaxies towards eight fast radio bursts (FRBs), producing grids of Faraday rotation measure (RM) sources with sky densities of 9-28 polarized sources per square degree. Using a Bayesian…