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We constrain the redshift dependence of (rest frame) host galaxy dispersion measures of localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) by assuming it to vary as a simple power law ($\propto (1+z)^{\alpha}$). We simultaneously fit $\alpha$ as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Paz Beniamini

The distribution of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies of all types is poorly constrained. Foreground CGMs contribute an extra amount to the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRB). We measure this DM excess for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiaohan Wu , Matthew McQuinn

The dispersion of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) can serve as a powerful probe of the diffuse plasma between and surrounding galaxies, which contains most of the Universe's baryons. By cross-correlating the dispersion of background…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have excessive dispersion measures (DMs) and an all-sky distribution, which point toward an extragalactic or even a cosmological origin. We develop a method to extract the mean host galaxy DM ($\left\langle{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Yuan-Pei Yang , Rui Luo , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

The cosmic baryon density fraction ($\Omega_{\rm b}$) is intrinsically correlated with the Hubble constant ($H_0$) through the critical density of the Universe. In the context of the decade-long $H_0$ tension, the significant discrepancy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ji-Guo Zhang , Ji-Yu Song , Wan-Peng Sun , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The high redshift 21-cm signal promises to be a crucial probe of the state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Understanding the connection between the observed 21-cm power spectrum and the physical quantities intricately associated with the…

Data from Type Ia supernovae, along with X-ray cluster estimates of the universal baryon fraction and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) determinations of the baryon-to-photon ratio, are used to provide estimates of several global cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Steigman , T. P. Walker , A. Zentner

The Faraday rotation effect, quantified by the Rotation Measure (RM), is a powerful probe of the large-scale magnetization of the Universe - tracing magnetic fields not only on galaxy and galaxy cluster scales but also in the intergalactic…

The fraction of ionizing photons which escape their host galaxy and so are able to ionize hydrogen in the inter-galactic medium (IGM) is a critical parameter in studies of the reionization era and early galaxy formation. In this paper we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jhan Srbinovsky , Stuart Wyithe

Measuring the Hubble constant (H$_0$) is one of the most important missions in astronomy. Nevertheless, recent studies exhibit differences between the employed methods. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are coherent radio transients with large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Tsung-Ching Yang , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tzu-Yin Hsu , Tomotsugu Goto , Chih-Teng Ling , Simon C. -C. Ho , Amos Y. -A. Chen , Ece Kilerci

A new method of measuring cosmology with gamma-ray bursts(GRBs) has been proposed by Liang and Zhang recently. In this method, only observable quantities including the rest frame peak energy of the \nu F_\nu spectrum (E'_p), the isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

At redshifts z >~ 2, most of the baryons reside in the smooth intergalactic medium which is responsible for the low column density Lyman-alpha forest. This photoheated gas follows a tight temperature-density relation which introduces a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns , Michael Rauch , George Efstathiou , Wallace L. W. Sargent

Following Cui et al. 2018 (hereafter Paper I) on the classification of large-scale environments (LSE) at z = 0, we push our analysis to higher redshifts and study the evolution of LSE and the baryon distributions in them. Our aim is to…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, energetic, extragalactic flashes of radio emission whose progenitors are largely unknown. Although studying the FRB population is essential for understanding how these astrophysical phenomena occur, such…

We propose that fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used as the probes to constrain the possible anisotropic distribution of baryon matter in the Universe. Monte Carlo simulations show that, 400 (800) FRBs are enough to detect the anisotropy at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-29 Hai-Nan Lin , Yu Sang

ALMA observations of the long wavelength dust continuum are used to estimate the interstellar medium (ISM) masses in a sample of 708 galaxies at z = 0.3 to 4.5 in the COSMOS field. The galaxy sample has known far-infrared luminosities and,…

Arguably the best hope of understanding the tail end of the reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift z > 6 is through the detection and characterization of the Gunn-Peterson (GP) damping wing absorption of the IGM in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-25 Roban Hultman Kramer , Zoltan Haiman

We explore the intergalactic medium (IGM) as a potential source of the unresolved soft X-ray background (XRB) and the feasibility to extract the IGM state and evolution from XRB observations. We build two analytical models, the continuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pengjie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen

We reassess constraints on the cosmological baryon density from observations of the mean decrement and power spectrum of the Lyman-alpha forest, taking into account uncertainties in all free parameters in the simplest gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lam Hui , Zoltan Haiman , Matias Zaldarriaga , Tal Alexander

We use Swift blazar spectra to estimate the key intergalactic medium (IGM) properties of hydrogen column density(Nhxigm), metallicity and temperature over a redshift range of 0.03 leq z leq 4.7, using a collisional ionisation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Tony Dalton , Simon L. Morris , Michele Fumagalli , Efrain Gatuzz