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Temporal broadening is a commonly observed property of fast radio bursts (FRBs), associated with turbulent media which cause radiowave scattering. Similarly to dispersion, scattering is an important probe of the media along the line of…

We propose a data-driven approach to reconstruct the all-sky distribution of the dispersion measure contribution from the Galactic halo ($\mathrm{DM_{halo}}$) through a spherical harmonic expansion, enabling an investigation of its possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-07 Yang Liu , Bao Wang , Puxun Wu , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the first cosmological radio sources that vary on millisecond timescales, which makes them a unique probe of the Universe. Many proposed applications of FRBs require associated redshifts. These can only be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Joscha N. Jahns , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker , Carlton M. Baugh

We used Bands 6 and 7 of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Cycles 7 and 8 to search for $\mathrm{CO}\,(3-2)$ emission from a sample of five fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies discovered by the Commensal Real-time…

Diverse formation channels have been proposed to explain the emergence of fast radio bursts (FRBs), yet their origin remains elusive. With improved localization precision, roughly 90 FRBs are now associated with host galaxies. SED fitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Nick Loudas , Dongzi Li , Michael A. Strauss , Joel Leja

Although there has recently been tremendous progress in studies of fast radio bursts (FRBs), the nature of their progenitors remains a mystery. We study the fluence and dispersion measure (DM) distributions of the ASKAP sample to better…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Wenbin Lu , Anthony L. Piro

FRB 190608 was detected by ASKAP and localized to a spiral galaxy at $z_{host}=0.11778$ in the SDSS footprint. The burst has a large dispersion measure ($DM_{FRB}=339.8$ $pc/cm^3$) compared to the expected cosmic average at its redshift. It…

The scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) by the intergalactic medium (IGM) is explored using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We confirm that the scattering by the clumpy IGM has significant line-of-sight variations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng , Fupeng Zhang

The frequency-dependent time delays in fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to constrain the photon mass, if the FRB redshifts are known, but the similarity between the frequency dependences of dispersion due to plasma effects and a photon…

For future surveys of fast radio bursts (FRBs), we clarify information available from cosmic dispersion measures (DMs) through cross-correlation analyses of foreground dark matter haloes (hosting galaxies and galaxy clusters) with their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Masato Shirasaki , Ryuichi Takahashi , Ken Osato , Kunihito Ioka

We develop a new statistical framework for studying the host galaxies of astrophysical sources that accounts for both redshift evolution and the multi-variate nature of host-galaxy properties. These aspects are critical when dealing with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 Asaf Horowicz , Ben Margalit

We introduce a new technique to constrain the line-of-sight integrated electron density of our Galactic halo $\text{DM}_\text{MW,halo}$ through analysis of the observed dispersion measure distributions of pulsars $\text{DM}_\text{pulsar}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-09 E. Platts , J. Xavier Prochaska , Casey J. Law

Over 80% of the cosmic baryon density is likely to be distributed in the diffuse, $\gtrsim10^{4}$ K circum- and inter-galactic medium (CGM and IGM respectively). We demonstrate that the dispersion measures (DMs) of samples of localized Fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Vikram Ravi

The temporal smearing of impulsive radio events at cosmological redshifts probes the properties of the ionized Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). We relate the degree of temporal smearing and the profile of a scattered source to the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Jun-Yi Koay

Modern cosmology and galaxy formation rely on an understanding of how cosmic baryons are distributed, a significant portion of which exist in the diffuse gas confined to halos. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising probe of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-20 Samuel McCarty , Liam Connor , Ralf M. Konietzka

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients. As they propagate through the interstellar medium, they interact with free electrons, resulting in dispersion. The corresponding dispersion measure (DM) is referred to as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Yi Feng , Dengke Zhou , Y. -K. Zhang , D. Li , Jianhua Fang , Jiaying Xu , Chenyuan Xu , Jintao Xie

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to measure cosmological parameters by employing the Macquart relation. However, at present, only a small number of FRB events are localized to host galaxies with known redshifts. Inspired by the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Ze-Wei Zhao , Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Through the relationship between dispersion measures (DM) and redshifts, fast radio bursts (FRBs) are considered to be very promising cosmological probes. In this paper, we attempted to use the DM-z relationship of FRBs to study the helium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-10 Liang Jing , Jun-Qing Xia

We report the detection of a dispersed Fast Radio Burst (FRB) in archival intermediate-latitude Parkes Radio Telescope data. The burst appears to be of the same physical origin as the four purported extragalactic FRBs reported by Thornton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Burke-Spolaor , K. W. Bannister