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Current measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey (DESI DR2), when combined with data from Type Ia supernovae (SNe), challenge the observational viability of the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Thais Lemos

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Thus far, they have been blindly detected at millisecond timescales with dispersion measures (DMs) between 110--2600\,pc\,cm$^{-3}$. However, the observed pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Liam Connor

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

Measurements of the fine-structure constant alpha require methods from across subfields and are thus powerful tests of the consistency of theory and experiment in physics. Using the recoil frequency of cesium-133 atoms in a matter-wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Richard H. Parker , Chenghui Yu , Weicheng Zhong , Brian Estey , Holger Müller

The Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker model establishes the correlation between redshifts and distances. It has a metric expansion of space. As a result, the wavelength of photons propagating through the expanding space is stretched,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Seokcheon Lee

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient intense radio pulses with duration of milliseconds. Although the first FRB was detected more than a decade ago, the progenitors of these energetic events are not yet known. The currently preferred…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Esha Kundu , Lilia Ferrario

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a class of millisecond-scale, highly energetic phenomena with unknown progenitors and radiation mechanisms, require proper statistical analysis as a key method for uncovering their mysteries. In this research, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-27 Xianghan Cui , Clancy James , Di Li , Chengmin Zhang

Through the relationship between dispersion measures (DM) and redshifts, fast radio bursts (FRBs) are considered to be very promising cosmological probes. In this paper, we attempted to use the DM-z relationship of FRBs to study the helium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-10 Liang Jing , Jun-Qing Xia

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been found in great numbers, but the physical mechanism of these sources is still a mystery. The redshift evolutions of the FRB energy distribution function and the volumetric rate shed light on the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jia-Ming Zou , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We study the dependence of the peak luminosity of Type Ia supernovae on the fine structure constant $\alpha$. We find that decreasing (increasing) $\alpha$ enhances (reduces) the luminosity. Future experiments like SNAP could determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeshi Chiba , Kazunori Kohri

It has been proposed that the radio-frequency electric-dipole (E1) transition between two nearly degenerate opposite-parity states in atomic dysprosium should be highly sensitive to possible temporal variation of the fine structure constant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. T. Nguyen , D. Budker , S. K. Lamoreaux , J. R. Torgerson

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond-duration radio transients of extragalactic origin. Some of them repeat, while others apparently do not. Investigations of periodic activity in repeating FRB have been conducted to probe…

We investigate whether current data on the distribution of observed flux densities of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are consistent with a constant source density in Euclidean space. We use the number of FRBs detected in two surveys with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Niels Oppermann , Liam Connor , Ue-Li Pen

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…

By integration of generalized BSBM and Brans-Dicke cosmological models, in this article, we investigate the theoretical framework of fine structure constant variation and current cosmic acceleration. We first develop a mathematical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Farajollahi , A. Salehi

The repeating fast radio burst source FRB 121102 has been shown to have an exceptionally high and variable Faraday rotation measure (RM), which must be imparted within its host galaxy and likely by or within its local environment. In the…

The dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode the integrated electron density along the line-of-sight, which is typically dominated by the intergalactic medium (IGM) contribution in the case of extragalactic FRBs. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Khee-Gan Lee , Metin Ata , Ilya S. Khrykin , Yuxin Huang , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jeff Cooke , Jielai Zhang , Adam Batten

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
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