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The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in conjunction with their redshifts can be used as powerful probes of the distribution of extragalactic plasma. With a large enough sample, the free-electron--galaxy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 April Qiu Cheng , Shion Elizabeth Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi W. Masui

The dispersion measures (DMs) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) arise predominantly from free electrons in the large-scale structure of the Universe. The increasing number of FRB observations have started to empirically constrain the distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Ralf M. Konietzka , Liam Connor , Vadim A. Semenov , Angus Beane , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is sensitive to the electron distribution in the Universe, making it a promising probe of cosmology and astrophysical processes such as baryonic feedback. However, cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Robert Reischke , Michael Kovač , Andrina Nicola , Steffen Hagstotz , Aurel Schneider

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

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

The excessive dispersion measures (DMs) and high Galactic latitudes of fast radio bursts (FRBs) hint toward a cosmological origin of these mysterious transients. Methods of using measured DM and redshift $z$ to study cosmology have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

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

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 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

We calculate the dispersion measure (DM) contributed by the intergalactic medium (IGM) to the total measured DM for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We use the MareNostrum Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (MICE) Onion Universe simulation (Fosalba…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Pol , M. T. Lam , M. A. McLaughlin , T. J. W. Lazio , J. M. Cordes

The distribution of baryons in the Universe remains a fundamental open question in astronomy, and the dispersion measure (DM) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) serves as a valuable tool for probing this cosmic gas. We investigate the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Maryam Hussaini , Liam Connor , Ralf M. Konietzka , Vikram Ravi , Jakob Faber , Kritti Sharma , Myles Sherman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, millisecond-duration transients that offer great potential for probing the universe, yet their physical origins remain unclear. The dispersion measure (DM) and scattering time ($\tau$) distributions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

Dispersion measure (DM) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are commonly used as a indicator of distance assuming that DM in excess of the expected amount within the Milky Way in the direction of each FRB arise mostly from the inter-galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yuu Niino

We derive all contributions to the dispersion measure (DM) of electromagnetic pulses to linear order in cosmological perturbations, including both density fluctuations and relativistic effects. We then use this result to calculate the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 David Alonso

We present constraints on the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) using large cosmological simulations. We calculate contributions to FRB dispersion measures (DMs) from the Milky Way, from the local Universe, from cosmological large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 K. Dolag , B. M. Gaensler , A. M. Beck , M. C. Beck

We use the dispersion measure (DM) of localised Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to constrain cosmological and host galaxy parameters using simulation-based inference (SBI) for the first time. By simulating the large-scale structure of the electron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Koustav Konar , Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Andrina Nicola , Hendrik Hildebrandt

The impact of galaxy formation processes on the matter power spectrum is uncertain and may bias cosmological parameters inferred by large-scale structure surveys. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), through their dispersion measures (DMs) encoding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Kritti Sharma , Elisabeth Krause , Vikram Ravi , Robert Reischke , Liam Connor , Pranjal R. S. , Dhayaa Anbajagane

We calculate the dispersion measures (DMs) contributed by host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Based on a few host galaxy observations, a large sample of galaxy with similar properties to observed ones has been selected from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 G. Q. Zhang , Hai Yu , J. H. He , F. Y. Wang

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

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
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