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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…

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Numerous methods for finding clusters at moderate to high redshifts have been proposed in recent years, at wavelengths ranging from radio to X-rays. In this paper we describe a new method for detecting clusters in two-band optical/near-IR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most mysterious astronomical transients. Observationally, they can be classified into repeaters and apparently non-repeaters. However, due to the lack of continuous observations, some apparently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-03 Jia-Ming Zhu-Ge , Jia-Wei Luo , Bing Zhang

In recent years, the CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) interferometer has revealed a large number of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), including a sizable population that demonstrates repeating behavior. This transit facility,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Kyle McGregor , Duncan R. Lorimer

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…

We present accurate photometric redshifts for galaxies observed by the Cluster Lensing and Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). CLASH observed 25 massive galaxy cluster cores with the Hubble Space Telescope in 16 filters spanning 0.2 - 1.7…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are new transient radio sources discovered recently. Because of the angular resolution restriction in radio surveys, no optical counter part has been identified yet so it is hard to determine the progenitor of FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-15 Chun-Yu Li , Li-Xin Li

Nowadays, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been a promising probe for astronomy and cosmology. However, it is not easy to identify the redshifts of FRBs to date. Thus, no sufficient actual FRBs with identified redshifts can be used to study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Da-Chun Qiang , Hao Wei

Paper I in this series introduced a model in which seed radio bursts produced by a hotspot anchored in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetic neutron star (NS) are greatly amplified by strong gravitational self-lensing and thus give rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Riccardo La Placa , Simone Dall'Osso , Luigi Stella , Andrea Possenti

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

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

The field of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) science is currently thriving and growing rapidly. The lines of active investigation include theoretical and observational aspects of these enigmatic millisecond radio signals. These pursuits are for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-05 E. F. Keane

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration at cosmological distances. Since compact dark matter/objects (COs) could act as lenses and cause split of this kind of very short duration signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Kai Liao , S. -B. Zhang , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao

Fast radio burst (FRBs) are an exciting class of bright, extragalactic, millisecond radio transients. The recent development of large field-of-view (FOV) radio telescopes has caused a rapid rise in the number of identified single burst and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-24 Matthew Lundy

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the electron column density along the line of sight and hence can be used to probe foreground structures. One such structure is the Galactic halo. In this work, we use a total of 98 high Galactic latitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Jordan Hoffmann , Clancy James , Jason Xavier Prochaska , Marcin Glowacki

We search for high redshift ($z\sim$1-2) galaxy clusters using low luminosity radio galaxies (FR~I) as beacons and our newly developed Poisson Probability Method (PPM) based on photometric redshift information and galaxy number counts. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Gianluca Castignani , Marco Chiaberge , Annalisa Celotti , Colin Norman , Gianfranco De Zotti

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising tool for studying the low-density universe as their dispersion measures (DM) are extremely sensitive probes of electron column density. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) inject energy into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Chris Flynn , Vivek Gupta , Emma Ryan-Weber , Nastasha Wijers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio transients of extragalactic origin lasting for about a few to several milli-seconds. We have analyzed both non-CHIME and CHIME FRB data. To circumvent the absence of measured fluence and flux density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Nidhi Saini , Patrick Das Gupta

The first precise localization of a fast radio burst (FRB), leading to an association with a low metallicity dwarf galaxy at $z=0.193$, has began to shed light on the nature of these mysterious bursts and the physical mechanisms that power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 T. Eftekhari , E. Berger