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The widths, dispersion measures, dispersion indices and fluences of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. Observation of dispersion indices close to their low density limit of $-2$ sets a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 J. I. Katz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are increasingly being used for cosmological applications such as measuring the Hubble constant and baryon abundance. The increasing number of localized FRBs and precise measurement of dispersion measure (DM) make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Paz Beniamini

The impact of galaxy formation processes on the matter power spectrum is uncertain and may bias cosmological parameters inferred by large-scale structure surveys. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), through their dispersion measures (DMs) encoding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Kritti Sharma , Elisabeth Krause , Vikram Ravi , Robert Reischke , Liam Connor , Pranjal R. S. , Dhayaa Anbajagane

We investigate the cosmological evolution of the luminosity and redshift of FRBs. As is the case for all extragalactic sources, we are dealing with data that are truncated by observational selection effects, the most important being the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-05 Sujay Champati , Vahé Petrosian

The application of fast radio bursts (FRBs) as probes to investigate astrophysics and cosmology requires the proper modelling of the dispersion measures of Milky Way (${\rm DM_{MW}}$) and host galaxy (${\rm DM_{host}}$). ${\rm DM_{MW}}$ can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Li Tang

The angular power spectrum and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the relative abundances of primordial hydrogen, deuterium and helium isotopes, and the large-scale structure of the universe all indicate that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Ehud Behar , Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , Ari Laor

Most diffuse baryons, including the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the cosmic web, remain unmeasured and unconstrained. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) offer an unparalleled method to measure…

We analyze plasma dispersion and scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to identify the dominant locations of free electrons along their lines of sight and thus constrain the distances of the burst sources themselves. We establish the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-20 J. M. Cordes , R. S. Wharton , L. G. Spitler , S. Chatterjee , I. Wasserman

The FLIMFLAM survey is collecting spectroscopic data of field galaxies near fast radio burst (FRB) sightlines to constrain key parameters describing the distribution of matter in the Universe. In this work, we leverage the survey data to…

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

Where the cosmic baryons lie in and around galactic dark matter halos is only weakly constrained. We develop a method to quickly paint on models for their distribution. Our approach uses the statistical advantages of $N$-body simulations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-29 Ian Williams , Adnan Khan , Matthew McQuinn

We present a comprehensive study of the distribution of matter around different populations of large-scale cosmic filaments, using the IllustrisTNG simulation at z=0. We computed the dark matter (DM), gas, and stellar radial density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Mathieu Langer , Nabila Aghanim

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been suggested as an excellent celestial laboratory for testing the zero-mass hypothesis of the photon. In this work, we use the dispersion measure (DM)--redshift measurements of 23 localized FRBs to revisit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Martín López-Corredoira

Two of the most pressing challenges in cosmology are the persistent discrepancy in measurements of the Hubble constant, referred to as the Hubble tension, and the deficit of baryons in the local Universe, known as the missing baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Peng-Ju Wu , Bo-Yang Zhang , Ji-Guo Zhang , Guo-Hong Du , Shang-Jie Jin , Xin Zhang

Recent Cosmological measurements indicate that baryons comprise about four percent of the total mass-energy density of the Universe, which is in accord with the predictions arising from studies of the production of the lightest elements. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Nicastro , S. Mathur , M. Elvis , J. Drake , T. Fang , A. Fruscione , Y. Krongold , H. Marshall , R. Williams , A. Zezas

High time resolution radio surveys over the last few years have discovered a population of millisecond-duration transient bursts called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which remain of unknown origin. FRBs exhibit dispersion consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Caleb , C. Flynn , M. Bailes , E. D. Barr , R. W. Hunstead , E. F. Keane , V. Ravi , W. van Straten

We propose a new approach to the missing baryons problem. Building on the common assumption that the missing baryons are in the form of the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM), we further assumed here that the galaxy luminosity density can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 J. Nevalainen , E. Tempel , L. J. Liivamägi , E. Branchini , M. Roncarelli , C. Giocoli , P. Heinämäki , E. Saar , A. Tamm , A. Finoguenov , P. Nurmi , M. Bonamente

Five fast radio bursts (FRBs), including three apparently non-repeating ones FRB 180924, FRB 181112, and FRB 190523, and two repeaters, FRB 121102 and FRB 180916.J0158+65, have already been localized so far. We apply a method developed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Zhengxiang Li , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

We investigate the fraction of baryon mass in intergalactic medium ($f_\mathrm{IGM}$), using 18 well-localized FRBs in the redshift range $z\in (0.0039,0.66)$. We construct a five-parameter Bayesian inference model, with the probability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Hai-Nan Lin , Rui Zou

If a small fraction of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), as recently suggested by Zhang, the combination of redshift measurements of GRBs and dispersion measure (DM) measurements of FRBs opens a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Wei Deng , Bing Zhang