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The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs), highly energetic, millisecond-duration radio pulses originating from beyond our galaxy, remains unknown. Observationally, FRBs are classified as non-repeating or repeating, however, this…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a class of millisecond-scale, highly energetic phenomena with unknown progenitors and radiation mechanisms, require proper statistical analysis as a key method for uncovering their mysteries. In this research, we…

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Assuming that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are of extragalactic origin, we have developed a formalism to predict the FRB detection rate and the redshift distribution of the detected events for a telescope with given parameters. We have adopted…

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Impulsive radio bursts that are detectable across cosmological distances constitute extremely powerful probes of the ionized Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM), intergalactic magnetic fields, and the properties of space-time itself. Their…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a sensitive probe of the electron distribution in both the large-scale structure and their host galaxies through the dispersion measure (DM) of the radio pulse. Baryonic feedback models are crucial for modelling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Alexander Theis , Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Reischke , Jochen Weller

The distances of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources are currently unknown. We show that the 21-cm absorption line of hydrogen can be used to infer the redshifts of FRB sources, and determine whether they are Galactic or extragalactic. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Ben Margalit , Abraham Loeb

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

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 new transient radio sources discovered recently. Because of the angular resolution restriction in radio surveys, no optical counter part has been identified yet so it is hard to determine the progenitor of FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-15 Chun-Yu Li , Li-Xin Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the first cosmological radio sources that vary on millisecond timescales, which makes them a unique probe of the Universe. Many proposed applications of FRBs require associated redshifts. These can only be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Joscha N. Jahns , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker , Carlton M. Baugh

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

We discuss the potential of using the HeI 584 A forest to detect and study HeII reionization. Significant 584 A absorption is expected from intergalactic HeII regions, whereas there should be no detectable absorption from low density gas in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthew McQuinn , Eric R. Switzer

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

A major issue in contemporary cosmology is the persistent discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates from local measurements and those inferred from early-Universe observations under the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients of unknown origin. Rotation measures (RMs) probe their local magneto-ionic environments and provide important clues to their nature. While RM variability has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Ye Li

Observations from the HUT and the HST have recently detected HeII absorption along the lines of sight to two high redshift quasars. We use cosmological simulations with gas dynamics to investigate HeII absorption in the cold dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Rupert A. C. Croft , David H. Weinberg , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious extragalactic radio signals. Revealing their origin is one of the central foci in modern astronomy. Previous studies suggest that occurrence rates of non-repeating and repeating FRBs could be…

We examine the impact of helium reionization on the structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We model the reionization using a radiative transfer (RT) code coupled to the combined gravity hydrodynamics code Enzo. Neutral hydrogen and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Meiksin , E. R. Tittley

Modern cosmology and galaxy formation rely on an understanding of how cosmic baryons are distributed, a significant portion of which exist in the diffuse gas confined to halos. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising probe of the…

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