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Recently, both theoretical arguments and observational evidence suggested that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If such FRB/GRB association systems are commonly detected in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 He Gao , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

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

The discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) about a decade ago opened up new possibilities for probing the ionization history of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM). In this paper we study the use of FRBs for tracing the epoch of HeII…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Caleb , C. Flynn , B. Stappers

If a small fraction of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), as recently suggested by Zhang, the combination of redshift measurements of GRBs and dispersion measure (DM) measurements of FRBs opens a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Wei Deng , Bing Zhang

The Macquart relation describes the correlation between the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and the redshift $z$ of their host galaxies. The scatter of the Macquart relation is sensitive to the distribution of baryons in…

Baryonic feedback fundamentally alters the total matter distribution on small to intermediate cosmological scales, posing a significant challenge for contemporary cosmological analyses. Direct tracers of the baryon distribution are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz

The recently discovered fast radio bursts (FRBs), presumably of extra-galactic origin, have the potential to become a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We point out a few such potential applications. We provide expressions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Z. Zheng , E. O. Ofek , S. R. Kulkarni , J. D. Neill , M. Juric

Dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the density of electrons in the intergalactic medium (IGM) along their lines-of-sight, including the average density versus distance to the source and its variations in direction.…

Fast radio bursts (FRB) probe the electron density of the universe along the path of propagation, making high redshift FRB sensitive to the helium reionization epoch. We analyze the signal to noise with which a detection of the amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-18 Eric V. Linder

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients that offer valuable insight of intergalactic medium (IGM). However, the dispersion measure (DM) contributed by IGM ($\rm{DM_{IGM}}$) is degenerated with that from the host galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-03 Rui-Nan Li , Ke Xu , Dao-Hong Gao , Qin Wu , Shuang-Xi Yi , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio burst (FRB) discoveries are occurring rapidly, with thousands expected from upcoming surveys. The dispersion measures (DM) observed for FRB include important information on cosmological distances and the ionization state of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , Eric V. Linder

We present a Bayesian inference on the neutral hydrogen fraction of the intergalactic medium (IGM), $x_{\textrm{HI}}$, at $z \sim$ 6-8 using the properties of Lyman break galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization. We use large samples of…

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

We derive constraints on the thermal and ionization states of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift $\approx$ 9.1 using new upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum measured by the LOFAR radio-telescope and a prior on the ionized…

The thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) can serve as a sensitive probe of cosmological heat sources and sinks. We employ it to limit interactions between dark matter and baryons. After reionization the IGM temperature is set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Julian B. Muñoz , Abraham Loeb

Most baryonic matter resides in the intergalactic medium (IGM), a diffuse gas primarily composed of ionized hydrogen and helium, filling the space between galaxies. Observations of such an environment are crucial to better understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-22 E. Gatuzz , J. Wilms , S. Hämmerich , R. Arcodia

We investigate the Missing Baryon problem using Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to trace cosmic baryons. Our CROCODILE simulations, performed with the GADGET3/4-OSAKA smoothed particle hydrodynamics code, include star formation, supernova (SN) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhao Joseph Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Khee-Gan Lee , Keita Fukushima , Kazuki Tomaru , Bing Zhang , Isabel Medlock , Daisuke Nagai

The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon content of the intergalactic medium, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic dispersion. While the host galaxy contributions to…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are excellent probes of the high-redshift Universe due to their high luminosities and the relatively simple intrinsic spectra of their afterglows. They can be used to estimate the fraction of neutral hydrogen (i.e.,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 H. M. Fausey , A. J. van der Horst , N. R. Tanvir , K. Wiersema , J. P. U. Fynbo , D. Hartmann , A. de Ugarte Postigo

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