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We reconstruct the extragalactic dispersion measure \ -- redshift relation (${\rm DM_E}-z$ relation) from well-localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) using Bayesian inference method. Then the ${\rm DM_E}-z$ relation is used to infer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li

The discovery of radio pulsars over a half century ago was a seminal moment in astronomy. It demonstrated the existence of neutron stars, gave a powerful observational tool to study them, and has allowed us to probe strong gravity, dense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 E. Petroff , J. W. T. Hessels , D. R. Lorimer

We report the first discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 20200125A, by the Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap (GBNCC) Pulsar Survey conducted with the Green Bank Telescope at 350 MHz. FRB 20200125A was detected at a Galactic latitude…

Fast Radio Bursts (hereafter FRBs) can be used in cosmology by studying the Dispersion Measure (hereafter DM) as a function of redshift. The large scale structure of matter distribution is regarded as a major error budget for such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Chenghao Zhu , Jiajun Zhang

In this paper we consider the fact that the simple criterion used to label fast radio transient events as either fast radio bursts (FRBs, thought to be extragalactic with as yet unknown progenitors) or rotating radio transients (RRATs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-25 E. F. Keane

We briefly review main observational properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and discuss two most popular hypothesis for the explanation of these enigmatic intense millisecond radio flashes. FRBs most probably originate on extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 S. B. Popov , K. A. Postnov , M. S. Pshirkov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond duration transients observed in the radio band, with their origin and radiation mechanism remaining unclear to date. Growing evidence indicates that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

The cosmic growth rate, which is related to peculiar velocity and is a primary scientific objective of galaxy spectroscopic surveys, can be inferred from the Redshift Space Distortion effect and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Shi-Yuan Wang , Jun-Qing Xia

Fast radio bursts are mysterious transient sources likely located at cosmological distances. The derived brightness temperatures exceed by many orders of magnitude the self-absorption limit of incoherent synchrotron radiation, implying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Gustavo E. Romero , Maria Victoria del Valle , Florencia L. Vieyro

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful cosmological probes in recent years offering valuable insights into cosmic expansion. These predominantly extragalactic transients encode information on the expansion of the Universe through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , David J. Bacon , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , David Wands

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

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…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-duration, highly-energetic extragalactic radio transients with unclear origins & emission mechanisms. Despite extensive multi-wavelength searches, no credible X-ray or other prompt electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 G. Waratkar , M. Dixit , S. P. Tendulkar , V. Bhalerao , D. Bhattacharya , S. Vadawale

Several fast radio bursts have been discovered recently, showing a bright, highly dispersed millisecond radio pulse. The pulses do not repeat and are not associated with a known pulsar or gamma-ray burst. The high dispersion suggests…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-15 Heino Falcke , Luciano Rezzolla

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new kind of extragalactic radio transients. Some of them show repeating behaviors. Recent observations indicate that a few repeating FRBs (e.g., FRB 121102) present time--frequency downward drifting patterns…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

Recent multi-telescope observations of the repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 reveal a Gaussian-like spectral profile and associate the event with a dwarf metal-poor galaxy at a cosmological redshift of 0.19. Assuming that this event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are emerging as powerful cosmological probes for constraining the baryon fraction in the intergalactic medium (IGM), offering a promising avenue to address the missing baryon problem. In this paper, we analyze…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Yang Liu , Yuchen Zhang , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

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,…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) carry fossil information about non-Gaussianity generated during inflation. This primordial signal is most accessible on the largest scales, where the scale-dependent bias correction $\propto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Simthembile Dlamini