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The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) provides a unique way to probe ionised baryons in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Cosmological models with different parameters lead to different DM-redshift ($\mathrm{DM}-z$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Nastasha Wijers , Vivek Gupta , Chris Flynn , Joop Schaye , Emma Ryan-Weber

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio bursts with poorly known origins. Most FRB sources are detected only once, while some are repeaters. Variation patterns observed in the rotation measure (RM) of some repeaters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Ying-ze Shan , Wei-Hua Lei , Hao-Tian Lan , Shao-yu Fu , Jumpei Takata , Yuan-chuan Zou , Jia-xin Liu , Long-xuan Zhang , Tong-lun Wang , Fa-Yin Wang

We study the cosmological constraints of the time variation of the electron mass $m_e$ and the fine-structure constant $\alpha$, using data of cosmic microwave background, supernovae light curve and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data…

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In this paper, we present a sample of 21 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by different radio instruments before September 2021. Using the Anderson--Darling test, we compared the distributions of extra-Galactic dispersion measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Kongjun Zhang , Longbiao Li , Zhibin Zhang , Qinmei Li , Juanjuan Luo , Min Jiang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious extragalactic radio signals. Revealing their origin is one of the central foci in modern astronomy. Previous studies suggest that occurrence rates of non-repeating and repeating FRBs could be…

We explore the potential variation of two fundamental constants, the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ and the proton-to-electron mass ratio $\mu$, within the framework of modified gravity theories and finite-temperature effects. Utilising…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Akhil Uniyal , Surajit Kalita , Yosuke Mizuno , Sayan Chakrabarti , Yan Lu

FRB 190520B is a repeating fast radio burst source whose large dispersion measure (DM) and temporal broadening suggest a dense and evolving local environment. In this work, we test the possibility that FRB 190520B originates from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jia-Peng Wei , Chen Deng , Gwenael Giacinti , Ze-Cheng Zou , Chen-Ran Hu , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng

Densely time sampled multi-frequency flux measurements of the extreme BL Lac object S5 0716+714 over the past three years allow us to study its broad-band variability, and the detailed underlying physics, with emphasis on the location and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 B. Rani , T. P. Krichbaum , L. Fuhrmann , B. Lott , M. Boettcher , J. A. Zensus

Recently, some fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters were reported to exhibit complex, diverse variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), which implies that they are surrounded by an inhomogeneous, dynamically evolving, magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuan-Pei Yang , Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

The possible variation of the electromagnetic fine structure constant $\alpha_e$ on cosmological scales arouses great interests in recent years. The strongly lensed gravitational waves and the electromagnetic counterparts could be used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-05 Xin Li , Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin , Li-Li Wang

[O III]$\lambda\lambda$4960,5008 doublet are often the strongest narrow emission lines in starburst galaxies and quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), and thus are a promising probe to possible variation of the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ over…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-30 Ge Li , Luming Sun , Xiangjun Chen , Hongyan Zhou

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

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 transient sources that emit a single radio pulse with a duration of only a few milliseconds. Since the discovery of the first FRB in 2007, tens of similar events have been detected. However, their physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-25 B. Marcote , Z. Paragi

A new component of the Universe which leads to an accelerated cosmic expansion is found from the measurements of distances to high-redshift type Ia supernovae. We describe the method and the results obtained from the observations of distant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruno Leibundgut , Gertrud Contardo , Patrick Woudt , Jason Spyromilio

Fast radio bursts (FRB) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultra-relativistic magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine PIC simulation results for the synchrotron maser with the dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Brian D. Metzger , Ben Margalit , Lorenzo Sironi

The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in conjunction with their redshifts can be used as powerful probes of the distribution of extragalactic plasma. With a large enough sample, the free-electron--galaxy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 April Qiu Cheng , Shion Elizabeth Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi W. Masui