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The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) provides a unique way to probe ionised baryons in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Cosmological models with different parameters lead to different DM-redshift ($\mathrm{DM}-z$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Nastasha Wijers , Vivek Gupta , Chris Flynn , Joop Schaye , Emma Ryan-Weber

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, mostly millisecond-duration transients of extragalactic origin whose emission mechanisms remain unknown. As FRB signals propagate through ionized media, they experience frequency-dependent delays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Hosein Rajabi , Zhejian Liu , Fereshteh Rajabi , Martin Houde

Multiple studies have investigated potential frequency-dependent dispersion measures (DM) in PSR B0329+54, with sensitivities at levels of $10^{-3} \, \text{pc} \, \text{cm}^{-3}$ or higher, using frequencies below 1 GHz. Utilizing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Shyam S. Sharma , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Shotaro Yamasaki , Simon C. -C. Ho

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are astrophysical transients of currently unknown origin, and so far several events have been detected at extragalactic distances. The dispersion measure (DM) of the radio signal is a probe of the integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Lilow

In an earlier paper (Ahuja, et al, 2005), based on simultaneous multi-frequency observations with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), we reported the variation of pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) with frequency. A few different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amrit Lal Ahuja , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta

Propagation effects in the interstellar medium and intrinsic profile changes can cause variability in the timing of pulsars, which limits the accuracy of fundamental science done via pulsar timing. One of the best timing pulsars, PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 Fang Xi Lin , Hsiu-Hsien Lin , Jing Luo , Robert Main , James McKee , Ue-Li Pen , Dana Simard , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

Dispersion in the interstellar medium is a well known phenomenon that follows a simple relationship, which has been used to predict the time delay of dispersed radio pulses since the late 1960s. We performed wide-band simultaneous…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most mysterious astronomical transients. Due to their short durations and cosmological distances, their dispersion measure (DM) - redshift ($z$) relation is useful for constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Jiaming Zhuge , Marios Kalomenopoulos , Bing Zhang

The dispersion measure -- redshift relation of Fast Radio Bursts, $\mathrm{DM}(z)$, has been proposed as a potential new probe of the cosmos, complementary to existing techniques. In practice, however, the effectiveness of this approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Anthony Walters , Yin-Zhe Ma , Jonathan Sievers , Amanda Weltman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are very energetic pulses of unknown physical origin. These can be used to study the intergalactic medium (IGM) thanks to their dispersion measure (DM). The DM has several contributions that can be measured (or…

Fast Radios Bursts (FRBs) show large dispersion measures (DMs), suggesting an extragalactic location. We analyze the DMs of the 11 known FRBs in detail and identify steps as integer multiples of half the lowest DM found, 187.5cm$^{-3}$ pc,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-31 Michael Hippke , Wilfried F. Domainko , John G. Learned

The dispersion of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is a measure of the large-scale electron distribution. It enables measurements of cosmological parameters, especially of the expansion rate and the cosmic baryon fraction. The number of events is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz

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

Pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) have been used to model the electron density of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Galactic disk as a plane-parallel medium, despite significant scatter in the DM-distance distribution and strong evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-10 Stella Koch Ocker , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

Pulsar dispersion measure (DM) accounts for the total electron content between a pulsar and us. High-precision observations for projects of pulsar timing arrays show temporal DM variations of millisecond pulsars. The aim of this paper is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han

We report the detection of an extreme flux decrease accompanied by clear dispersion measure (DM) and rotation measure (RM) variations for pulsar B1929+10 during the 110-minute radio observation with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Zhengli Wang , Shunshun Cao , Jiguang Lu , Yulan Liu , Xun Shi , Jinchen Jiang , Enwei Liang , Weiyang Wang , Heng Xu , Renxin Xu

Stellar coronae have been invoked to explain the apparently extragalactic dispersion measures observed in fast radio bursts. This paper demonstrates that the suggested plasma densities would lead to deviations from the standard dispersion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-10 Artem V. Tuntsov

Fast radio bursts (FRB) will become important cosmological tools, as the number of observed FRBs is increasing rapidly with more surveys being carried out. A large sample of FRBs with dispersion measures (DM) and rotation measures (RM) can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Timea Orsolya Kovacs , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Yik Ki Ma , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker

We present an algorithm for the simultaneous measurement of a pulse time-of-arrival (TOA) and dispersion measure (DM) from folded wideband pulsar data. We extend the prescription from Taylor (1992) to accommodate a general two-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-04 Timothy T. Pennucci , Paul B. Demorest , Scott M. Ransom

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have excessive dispersion measures (DMs) and an all-sky distribution, which point toward an extragalactic or even a cosmological origin. We develop a method to extract the mean host galaxy DM ($\left\langle{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Yuan-Pei Yang , Rui Luo , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang