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The rapid accumulation of observed Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originating from cosmological distances makes it likely that some will be strongly lensed by intervening matter along the line of sight. Detection of lensed FRB repeaters, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Tal Adi , Ely D. Kovetz

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

We review the potential information that can be gleaned from multi-wavelength and multi-messenger detections of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The primary function of such detections, following FRB localization, will be to reveal the progenitors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-02 Sarah Burke-Spolaor

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been suggested as an excellent celestial laboratory for testing the zero-mass hypothesis of the photon. In this work, we use the dispersion measure (DM)--redshift measurements of 23 localized FRBs to revisit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Martín López-Corredoira

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer a powerful probe of the ionized Universe through their dispersion measures (DM). While a significant fraction of the DM arises from the intergalactic medium (IGM), the contributions from the host galaxy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gunalan Muthusami , Gopal Kashyap

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short timescale (<<1 s) astrophysical radio signals, presumed to be a signature of cataclysmic events of extragalactic origin. The discovery of six high-redshift events at ~1400 MHz from the Parkes radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cathryn M. Trott , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

Fast radio bursts (FRB) are millisecond-duration radio pulses with apparent extragalactic origins. All but two of the FRBs have been discovered using the Parkes dish which employs multiple beams formed by an array of feed horns on its focal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 H. K. Vedantham , V. Ravi , G. Hallinan , R. Shannon

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several micro- to milliseconds and come from unidentified objects at cosmological distances, most of which are only seen once. Based on recently published data in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiang-Han Cui , Cheng-Min Zhang , Di Li , Jian-Wei Zhang , Bo Peng , Wei-Wei Zhu , Richard Strom , Shuang-Qiang Wang , Na Wang , Qing-Dong Wu , De-Hua Wang , Yi-Yan Yang

The Hubble constant ($H_0$) measures the current expansion rate of the Universe, and plays a fundamental role in cosmology. Tremendous effort has been dedicated over the past decades to measure $H_0$. Notably, Planck cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 Kenta Hotokezaka , Ehud Nakar , Ore Gottlieb , Samaya Nissanke , Kento Masuda , Gregg Hallinan , Kunal P. Mooley , Adam. T. Deller

We discuss possible association of fast radio bursts (FRBs) with supergiant pulses emitted by young pulsars (ages $\sim$ tens to hundreds of years) born with regular magnetic field but very short -- few milliseconds -- spin periods. FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Maxim Lyutikov , Lukasz Burzawa , Sergei B. Popov

The first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to be precisely localized was associated with a luminous persistent radio source (PRS). Recently, a second FRB/PRS association was discovered for another repeating source of FRBs. However, it is not clear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 C. J. Law , L. Connor , K. Aggarwal

A measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe (that is the Hubble constant, H0) is derived here using the gamma-ray attenuation observed in the spectra of gamma-ray sources produced by the interaction of extragalactic gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 A. Domínguez , F. Prada

Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful probes of turbulence within the intergalactic medium (IGM), a phenomenon that plays a crucial role in various cosmological and astrophysical processes. In this study, we employ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Rui-Nan Li , Zhao Joseph Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Qin Wu , F. Y. Wang

Our understanding of the universe relies mostly on electromagnetism. As photons are the messengers, fundamental physics is concerned in testing their properties. Photon mass upper limits have been earlier set through pulsar observations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Mark J. Bentum , Luca Bonetti , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

The Macquart relation and time-delay cosmography are now two promising ways to fast radio burst (FRB) cosmology. In this work, we propose a joint method that combines strongly lensed and unlensed FRBs for improving cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yi-Fan Jiang , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients, some of which are associated with compact persistent radio sources (PRSs), hinting at a physical connection. While several models have been proposed to…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) constitute an emerging class of fast radio transient whose origin continues to be a mystery. Realizing the importance of increasing coverage of the search parameter space, we have designed, built, and deployed a…

Proposed space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as BBO and DECIGO can detect ~10^6 neutron-star binaries and determine luminosity distance to the binaries with a high precision. Combining the luminosity distance and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Shun Saito

The spatial curvature of the Universe remains a central question in modern cosmology. In this work, we explore the potential of localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as a novel tool to constrain the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$ in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Gustavo E. Romero

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