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The measurement of dispersion is one of the most fundamental and ubiquitous statistical concepts, in both applied and theoretical contexts. For dispersion measures, such as the standard deviation, to effectively capture the variability of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-09 Andreas Eberl , Bernhard Klar

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

We propose that "standard pings", brief broadband radio impulses, can be used to study the three-dimensional clustering of matter in the Universe even in the absence of redshift information. The dispersion of radio waves as they travel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Kris Sigurdson

We present DM-power, a new method for precisely determining the dispersion measure (DM) of radio bursts, and apply it to the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) source FRB~20180916B. Motivated by the complex structure on multiple time scales seen in…

The ionized interstellar medium disperses pulsar radio signals, resulting in a stochastic time-variable delay known as the dispersion measure (DM) noise. In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, we measure a DM together with a time of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Rutger van Haasteren

Fast radio bursts appear to be cosmological signals whose frequency-time structure provides a dispersion measure. The dispersion measure is a convolution of the cosmic distance element and the electron density, and contains the possibility…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Pawan Kumar , Eric V. Linder

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are very short and bright transients visible over extragalactic distances. The radio pulse undergoes dispersion caused by free electrons along the line of sight, most of which are associated with the large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Reischke , Robert Lilow

The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 was recently localized in a dwarf galaxy at a cosmological distance. The dispersion measure (DM) derived for each burst from FRB 121102 so far has not shown significant evolution, even though an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

We investigate the use of bright single pulses from the Crab pulsar to determine separately the dispersion measure (DM) for the Main Pulse and Interpulse components. We develop two approaches using cross correlation functions (CCFs). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 N. Lewandowska , P. B. Demorest , M. A. McLaughlin , P. Kilian , T. H. Hankins

Variations of dispersion measure (DM) have been observed in some binary pulsars, which can not be well explained by the propagation effects, such as turbulence of the interstellar media (ISM) between the Earth and the pulsar. This paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. P. Gong

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

A pulsar's pulse profile gets broadened at low frequencies due to dispersion along the line of sight or due to multi-path propagation. The dynamic nature of the interstellar medium makes both of these effects time-dependent and introduces…

We present an implementation of the coherent dedispersion algorithm capable of dedispersing high-time-resolution radio observations to many different dispersion measures (DMs). This approach allows the removal of the dispersive effects of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-05 C. G. Bassa , Z. Pleunis , J. W. T. Hessels

The dispersion measure(DM) of fast radio burst encodes important information such as its distance, properties of intervening medium. Based on simulations in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG projects, we analyze the DM of FRBs contributed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Yang Wang , Lin Tang , Long-Long Feng

Recent studies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have led to many theories associating them with young neutron stars. If this is the case, then the presence of supernova ejecta and stellar winds provide a changing dispersion measure (DM) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Anthony L. Piro , B. M. Gaensler

We present the results from nearly three years of monitoring of the variations in dispersion measure (DM) along the line-of-sight to 11 millisecond pulsars using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). These results demonstrate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Ujjwal Kumar , Yashwant Gupta , Willem van Straten , Stefan Oslowski , Jayanta Roy , N. D. R. Bhat , Matthew Bailes , Michael J. Keith

We investigate how the statistical properties of dispersion measure (DM) and apparent flux density/fluence of (non-repeating) fast radio bursts (FRBs) are determined by unknown cosmic rate density history [$\rhoFRB (z)$] and luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-10 Yuu Niino

Fast radio burst (FRB) discoveries are occurring rapidly, with thousands expected from upcoming surveys. The dispersion measures (DM) observed for FRB include important information on cosmological distances and the ionization state of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , Eric V. Linder

The cosmological dispersion measure (DM) as a function of redshift, derived from localized fast radio bursts (FRBs), has been used as a tool for constraining the cosmic ionized fraction and cosmological parameters. For these purposes, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Ryuichi Takahashi

We investigate the three-dimensional clustering of sources emitting electromagnetic pulses traveling through cold electron plasma, whose radial distance is inferred from their dispersion measure. As a distance indicator, dispersion measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Shohei Saga , David Alonso