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A hypothetical photon mass, $m_\gamma$, gives an energy-dependent light speed in a Lorentz-invariant theory. Such a modification causes an additional time delay between photons of different energies when they travel through a fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-20 Lijing Shao , Bing Zhang

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 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

The frequency-dependent time delays in fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to constrain the photon mass, if the FRB redshifts are known, but the similarity between the frequency dependences of dispersion due to plasma effects and a photon…

Redshift and luminosity distributions are essential for understanding the cosmic evolution of extragalactic objects and phenomena, such as galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, and fast radio bursts (FRBs). For FRBs, these distributions are primarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Om Gupta , Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar , Steven L. Finkelstein

We examine the proposal that the dispersion measures (DMs) and Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of extragalactic linearly-polarized fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to probe the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu , B. M. Gaensler

We consider the possible observation of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with planned future radio telescopes, and investigate how well the dispersions and redshifts of these signals might constrain cosmological parameters. We construct mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Anthony Walters , Amanda Weltman , B. M. Gaensler , Yin-Zhe Ma , Amadeus Witzemann

We discuss the possibility of using fast radio bursts (FRBs), if cosmological, as a viable cosmic probe. We find out that the contribution of the host galaxies to the detected dispersion measures can be inapparent for the FRBs not from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 Bei Zhou , Xiang Li , Tao Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

In this paper, we investigate the FRB population using the first CHIME/FRB catalog. We first reconstruct the extragalactic dispersion measure -- redshift relation ($\mathrm{DM_E} - z$ relation) from well-localized FRBs, then use it to infer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-20 Hai-Nan Lin , Rui Zou

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

Context: Fast Radio Bursts are transient radio pulses from presumably compact stellar sources of extragalactic origin. With new telescopes detecting multiple events per day, statistical methods are required in order to interpret…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Stefan Hackstein , Marcus Brüggen , Franco Vazza , Luiz F. S. Rodrigues

The scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) by the intergalactic medium (IGM) is explored using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We confirm that the scattering by the clumpy IGM has significant line-of-sight variations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng , Fupeng Zhang

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful probes of baryonic matter in the Universe, offering constraints on cosmological and feedback parameters through their extragalactic dispersion measure-redshift (DM$_\mathrm{exgal}$-$z$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Kritti Sharma , Vikram Ravi , Liam Connor , Elisabeth Krause , Pranjal R. S. , Dhayaa Anbajagane

In recent years, localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as a powerful tool to study the structure of the baryonic matter in the universe. Their dispersion measures (DMs) scale linearly with electron density independent of gas…

The intergalactic medium (IGM) is the dominant reservoir of baryons at all cosmic epochs. We investigate the evolution of the IGM from z=2-0 in 48 Mpc/h, 110-million particle cosmological hydrodynamic simulations using three prescriptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Neal Katz , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most mysterious astronomical transients. Due to their short durations and cosmological distances, their dispersion measure (DM) - redshift ($z$) relation is useful for constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Jiaming Zhuge , Marios Kalomenopoulos , Bing Zhang

We have performed a detailed statistical study of the evolution of structure in a photoionized intergalactic medium (IGM) using analytical simulations to extend the calculation into the mildly non-linear density regime found to prevail at z…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 HongGuang Bi , Arthur F. Davidsen

In recent years, millisecond duration radio signals originating from distant galaxies appear to have been discovered in the so-called Fast Radio Bursts. These signals are dispersed according to a precise physical law and this dispersion is…

FRBs constitute a unique probe of various astrophysical and cosmological environments via their characteristic dispersion and rotation (RM) measures that encode information about the ionized gas traversed by the FRB sightlines. In this…