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The precise localization (<1'') of multiple fast radio bursts (FRBs) to z>0.1 galaxies has confirmed that the dispersion measures (DMs) of these enigmatic sources afford a new opportunity to probe the diffuse ionized gas around and in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 J. Xavier Prochaska , Yong Zheng

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extra-galactic radio transients which exhibit a distance-dependent dispersion of their signal, and thus can be used as cosmological probes. In this article we, for the first time, apply a model-independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Stefan Heimersheim , Nina S. Sartorio , Anastasia Fialkov , Duncan R. Lorimer

We introduce a new technique to constrain the line-of-sight integrated electron density of our Galactic halo $\text{DM}_\text{MW,halo}$ through analysis of the observed dispersion measure distributions of pulsars $\text{DM}_\text{pulsar}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-09 E. Platts , J. Xavier Prochaska , Casey J. Law

We describe three different methods for exploring the hydrogen reionization epoch using fast radio bursts (FRBs) and provide arguments for the existence of FRBs at high redshift (z). The simplest way, observationally, is to determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar , Xiangcheng Ma , Eliot Quataert

It has been proposed that measurements of scattering times ($\tau$) from fast radio bursts (FRB) may be used to infer the FRB host dispersion measure (DM) and its redshift. This approach relies on the existence of a correlation between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Lluis Mas-Ribas , Clancy W. James

Recently, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have become a thriving field in astronomy and cosmology. Due to their extragalactic and cosmological origin, they are useful to study the cosmic expansion and the intergalactic medium (IGM). In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Han-Yue Guo , Hao Wei

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

We use the EAGLE cosmological simulations to perform a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the $z=0.1$ Fundamental Plane (FP), the tight relation between galaxy size, mass and velocity dispersion. We first measure the total mass and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Anna de Graaff , Marijn Franx , Eric F. Bell , Rachel Bezanson , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , Arjen van der Wel

Where the cosmic baryons lie in and around galactic dark matter halos is only weakly constrained. We develop a method to quickly paint on models for their distribution. Our approach uses the statistical advantages of $N$-body simulations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-29 Ian Williams , Adnan Khan , Matthew McQuinn

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

The temporal smearing of impulsive radio events at cosmological redshifts probes the properties of the ionized Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). We relate the degree of temporal smearing and the profile of a scattered source to the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Jun-Yi Koay

Five fast radio bursts (FRBs), including three apparently non-repeating ones FRB 180924, FRB 181112, and FRB 190523, and two repeaters, FRB 121102 and FRB 180916.J0158+65, have already been localized so far. We apply a method developed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Zhengxiang Li , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

In this paper, we study the evolution of the ionization fraction $x_e(z)$ during the epoch of reionization by using the dispersion measurements (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Different from the previous studies, here we turn to consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Ji-Ping Dai , Jun-Qing Xia

This theoretical work investigates different models to predict the redshift of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from their observed dispersion measure (DM) and other reported properties. We performed an extensive revision of the FRBs with confirmed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Luz Ángela García , Eduard Piratova-Moreno , Felipe González-Alarcón , Jhonier Rangel

Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRB's) is a central unsolved problem in astrophysics that is severely hampered by their poorly determined distance scale. Determining the redshift distribution of FRB's appears to require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith , Kiyoshi W. Masui

The dispersion of fast radio bursts (FRBs) measures the column density of free electrons, tracing the diffuse ionized gas that contains more than $90\%$ of all baryons. On linear scales the FRB dispersion field is an approximately unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shion Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi Masui , Josh Borrow , Calvin Leung , Ryan Raikman , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , James M. Sullivan

We develop a sophisticated model of FRB observations, accounting for the intrinsic cosmological gas distribution and host galaxy contributions, and give the most detailed account yet of observational biases due to burst width, dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 C. W. James , J. X. Prochaska , J. -P. Macquart , F. North-Hickey , K. W. Bannister , A. Dunning

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the electron column density along the line of sight and hence can be used to probe foreground structures. One such structure is the Galactic halo. In this work, we use a total of 98 high Galactic latitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Jordan Hoffmann , Clancy James , Jason Xavier Prochaska , Marcin Glowacki

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

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