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A major issue in contemporary cosmology is the persistent discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates from local measurements and those inferred from early-Universe observations under the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses occurring at cosmological distances that have emerged as prominent cosmological probes due to their dispersion measure (DM) evolution with redshift. In this work, we use cosmography,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Marcelo V. dos Santos

The dispersion of fast radio bursts (FRBs) measures the column density of free electrons, tracing the diffuse ionized gas that contains more than $90\%$ of all baryons. On linear scales the FRB dispersion field is an approximately unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shion Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi Masui , Josh Borrow , Calvin Leung , Ryan Raikman , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , James M. Sullivan

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) probe baryons permeating the cosmic web through their dispersion measures (DMs), which encode the integrated electron density along cosmological sightlines. Using 3,455 unique FRB sources from CHIME/FRB with $\sim…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond bursts of radio radiation whose progenitors so far remain mysterious. Nevertheless, the timescales and energetics of the events have lead to many theories associating FRBs with young neutron stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Anthony L. Piro

We obtain constraints on the variation of the fundamental constants from the full shape of the redshift-space correlation function of a sample of luminous galaxies drawn from the Data Release 9 of the Baryonic Oscillations Spectroscopic…

We introduce a toy model for the time-frequency structure of fast radio bursts (FRB), in which the observed emission is produced as a narrowly-peaked intrinsic spectral energy distribution sweeps down in frequency across the instrumental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Brian D. Metzger , Navin Sridhar , Ben Margalit , Paz Beniamini , Lorenzo Sironi

We study the spectro-temporal characteristics of two repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), namely, FRB 20180916B and FRB 20180814A, and combine the results with those from our earlier analysis on FRB 20121102A. The relationship between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Mohammed A. Chamma , Fereshteh Rajabi , Christopher M. Wyenberg , Abhilash Mathews , Martin Houde

Extragalactic dispersion measures (DMs) obtained from observations of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an excellent tool for probing intergalactic medium (IGM) and for conducting cosmography. However, the DM contribution from the IGM (${\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Jun-Jie Wei , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu

We use recent astrophysical and local tests of the stability of the fine-structure constant, $\alpha$, to constrain a particular phenomenological but physically motivated class of models in which the dark energy equation of state can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-12 C. J. A. P. Martins , M. Prat Colomer

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense radio flashes from the sky that are characterized by millisecond durations and Jansky-level flux densities. We carried out a statistical analysis on FRBs discovered. Their mean dispersion measure, after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 LongBiao Li , YongFeng Huang , ZhiBin Zhang , Di Li , Bing Li

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a unique probe of the cosmos, owing to dispersion caused by free electrons in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Two of the main quantities of interest are degenerate: the density of matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Joscha N. Jahns-Schindler , Laura G. Spitler

Some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to be caused by the mergers of binary neutron stars which may sometimes produce massive neutron star remnants capable of producing extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs). We conducted a deep…

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

Many modern theories predict that the fundamental constants depend on time, position, or the local density of matter. We develop a spectroscopic method for pulsed beams of cold molecules, and use it to measure the frequencies of microwave…

Using multiwavelength observations of radio afterglows, we confirm the hypothesis that the flux density of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at a fixed observing frequency is invariable when the distance of the GRBs increases, which means the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Z. B. Zhang , P. Chandra , Y. F. Huang , D. Li

In present paper we evaluate the fine structure constant variation, that should take place as the Universe expands and its curvature is changed adiabatically. Such variation of the fine structure constant is attributed to an energy losses…

General Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Anton A. Lipovka , Ivan A. Cardenas

We model the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) dispersion measure (DM) distribution for the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and compare this with the four FRBs published in the literature to date. We compare the DM distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 W. R. Arcus , C. W. James , R. D. Ekers , R. B. Wayth

We use high-redshift type Ia supernova and compact radio source data in order to test the infrared (IR) fixed point model of the late Universe which was proposed recently. It describes a cosmology with a time dependent cosmological constant…

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