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Strong gravitational lensing effect is a powerful tool to probe cosmological models and gravity theories. Recently, the time-delay cosmography from strong lensing and the stellar kinematics of the deflector, which encode the Hubble constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Ran Gao , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is currently an open question with several proposed sources and corresponding mechanisms for their production. Among them are compact binary coalescences (CBCs) that also generate gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Soummyadip Basak , Parameswaran Ajith , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

It is noted that the duration of a fast radio burst (FRB), about $10^{-3}$ s, is a smaller fraction of the time delay between multiple images of a source gravitationally lensed by a galaxy or galaxy cluster than the human lifetime is to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Adi Zitrin , David Eichler

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer unique probes of diverse cosmological phenomena due to their characteristic properties, including short duration timescale and high dispersion measure. This study investigates two distinct theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) offer a potential way to extend the Hubble diagram to very high redshifts and to constrain the nature of dark energy in a way complementary to distant type Ia supernovae. However, gravitational lensing systematically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi

Strong gravitational lenses provide unique laboratories for cosmological and astrophysical investigations, but they must first be discovered - a task that can be met with significant contamination by other astrophysical objects and…

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) form a part of dark matter has been considered for a long time but poorly constrained over a wide mass range. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Kai Liao , Chenhui Niu , He Gao , Zhiqi Huang , Lu Huang , Bing Zhang

The field of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) science is currently thriving and growing rapidly. The lines of active investigation include theoretical and observational aspects of these enigmatic millisecond radio signals. These pursuits are for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-05 E. F. Keane

Because gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) trace the high-z Universe, there is an appreciable probability for a GRB to be gravitational lensed by galaxies in the universe. Herein we consider the gravitational lensing effect of GRBs contributed by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-18 Chun-Yu Li , Li-Xin Li

Compact dark matter has been efficiently constrained in the M <~ 10 M_sun mass range by null searches for microlensing of stars in nearby galaxies. Here we propose to probe the mass range M >~ 10 M_sun by seeking echoes in gamma-ray-burst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Lingyuan Ji , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

Context: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic extragalactic bursts whose properties are still largely unknown, but based on their extremely small time duration, they are proposed to have a compact structure, making them candidates for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Goureesankar Sathyanathan , Calvin Leung , Olaf Wucknitz , Prasenjit Saha

Gravitational lensing of a gamma ray burst (GRB) by a single point mass will produce a second, delayed signal. Several authors have discussed using microlensed GRBs to probe a possible cosmological population of compact objects. We analyse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. B. Wyithe , E. L. Turner

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed and probably extragalactic radio flashes with millisecond-duration. Recently, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (using the CHIME/FRB instrument) has reported detections of 13…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Bin Liu , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are immensely energetic radio pulses with durations of milliseconds. Given their high all-sky rate, the probability of an FRB being lensed by an intervening massive object is non-negligible. In this study, we search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Chenming Chang , Songbo Zhang , Di Xiao , Zhenfan Tang , Ye Li , Junjie Wei , Xuefeng Wu

Despite existing constraints, it remains possible that up to $35\%$ of all dark matter is comprised of compact objects, such as the black holes in the 10-100\,M$_\odot$ range whose existence has been confirmed by LIGO. The strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Mawson W. Sammons , Jean-Pierre Macquart , Ron D. Ekers , Ryan M. Shannon , Hyerin Cho , J. Xavier Prochaska , Adam T. Deller , Cherie K. Day

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transient events, a subset of which have been localized to their host galaxies. Their high dispersion measures offer valuable insights into the ionized plasma along their line of sight, enabling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

The possibility that a fraction of the dark matter is comprised of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) remains unclear, especially in the 20-100 $M_{\odot}$ window. MACHOs could make up binaries, whose mergers may be detected by LIGO as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Y. K. Wang , F. Y. Wang

The possibility that part of the dark matter is made of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) remains poorly constrained over a wide range of masses, and especially in the $20-100\, M_\odot$ window. We show that strong gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Julian B. Muñoz , Ely D. Kovetz , Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski

Given the possible repetitive nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs), their cosmological origin, and their high occurrence, detection of strongly lensed sources due to intervening galaxy lenses is possible with forthcoming radio surveys. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Liang Dai , Wenbin Lu

The gravitational field of compact objects, such as primordial black holes, can create multiple images of background sources. For transients such as fast radio bursts (FRBs), these multiple images can be resolved in the time domain. Under…