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Recently, both theoretical arguments and observational evidence suggested that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If such FRB/GRB association systems are commonly detected in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 He Gao , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

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

Cosmic filaments are thought to host a substantial fraction of the missing baryons at redshifts $z<2$. In this study, we constraint the baryonic content of these filaments using localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Filaments are identified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Qi-Rui Yang , Yi Zheng , Long-Long Feng

The dispersion measure -- redshift relation of Fast Radio Bursts, $\mathrm{DM}(z)$, has been proposed as a potential new probe of the cosmos, complementary to existing techniques. In practice, however, the effectiveness of this approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Anthony Walters , Yin-Zhe Ma , Jonathan Sievers , Amanda Weltman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can provide a measure of the Hubble constant $H_0$ that is independent of the constraints set by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the type Ia supernovae (SNIa), thereby arbitrating the Hubble tension. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Jing-Yi Jia , Da-Chun Qiang , Lin-Yu Li , Hao Wei

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a promising new probe for astronomy and cosmology. Thanks to their extragalactic and cosmological origin, FRBs could be used to study the intergalactic medium (IGM) and the cosmic expansion. It is expected that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-21 Da-Chun Qiang , Hao Wei

We have investigated the basic statistics of the cosmological dispersion measure (DM) -- such as its mean, variance, probability distribution, angular power spectrum and correlation function -- using the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ryuichi Takahashi , Kunihito Ioka , Asuka Mori , Koki Funahashi

The Macquart relation describes the correlation between the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and the redshift $z$ of their host galaxies. The scatter of the Macquart relation is sensitive to the distribution of baryons in…

The cosmological dispersion measure (DM) as a function of redshift, derived from localized fast radio bursts (FRBs), has been used as a tool for constraining the cosmic ionized fraction and cosmological parameters. For these purposes, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Ryuichi Takahashi

Electromagnetic emissions from astrophysical sources at cosmological distances can be used to estimate the photon mass, $m_{\gamma}$. In this paper, we combine measurements of the dispersion measure ($\mathrm{DM}$) of fast radio bursts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Thais Lemos , Rodrigo Gonçalves , Joel Carvalho , Jailson Alcaniz

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) have emerged as powerful probes of baryonic matter in the Universe, offering constraints on cosmological and feedback parameters through their extragalactic dispersion measure-redshift (DM$_\mathrm{exgal}$-$z$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Kritti Sharma , Vikram Ravi , Liam Connor , Elisabeth Krause , Pranjal R. S. , Dhayaa Anbajagane

Some fast radio bursts (FRBs) are expected to be associated with the afterglow emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while a short-lived, supermassive neutron star (NS) forms during the GRBs. I investigate the possible contributions to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-14 Yun-Wei Yu

Fast Radios Bursts (FRBs) show large dispersion measures (DMs), suggesting an extragalactic location. We analyze the DMs of the 11 known FRBs in detail and identify steps as integer multiples of half the lowest DM found, 187.5cm$^{-3}$ pc,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-31 Michael Hippke , Wilfried F. Domainko , John G. Learned

The discrepancy between the early-time estimation and late-time observation on the cosmic baryon content - the 'missing baryon problem' - is a longstanding problem in cosmology. Although recent studies with fast radio bursts (FRBs) have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Chenze Dong , Florian Dedieu , Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Khee-Gan Lee , Daniele Sorini , Romeel Davé

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic radio pulses whose origins are poorly understood. The dispersion measure of host galaxy (${\rm DM_{host}}$) provides critical insights into the local environment of FRB sources. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Yu Sang , Hai-Nan Lin

We investigate the contribution of host galaxies to the overall Dispersion Measures (DMs) for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) cosmological zoom-in simulation suite. We calculate DMs from every…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-19 Matthew E. Orr , Blakesley Burkhart , Wenbin Lu , Sam B. Ponnada , Cameron B. Hummels

FRBs constitute a unique probe of various astrophysical and cosmological environments via their characteristic dispersion and rotation (RM) measures that encode information about the ionized gas traversed by the FRB sightlines. In this…

Dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the density of electrons in the intergalactic medium (IGM) along their lines-of-sight, including the average density versus distance to the source and its variations in direction.…

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