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In this paper, we study the evolution of the ionization fraction $x_e(z)$ during the epoch of reionization by using the dispersion measurements (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Different from the previous studies, here we turn to consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Ji-Ping Dai , Jun-Qing Xia

We use the dispersion measure (DM) of localised Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to constrain cosmological and host galaxy parameters using simulation-based inference (SBI) for the first time. By simulating the large-scale structure of the electron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Koustav Konar , Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Andrina Nicola , Hendrik Hildebrandt

The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is sensitive to the electron distribution in the Universe, making it a promising probe of cosmology and astrophysical processes such as baryonic feedback. However, cosmological…

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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

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

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

Extragalactic Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have large dispersion measures (DMs) and are unique probes of intergalactic electron density fluctuations. By using the recently released First CHIME/FRB Catalog, we reexamined the structure function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Siyao Xu , David H. Weinberg , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, energetic, extragalactic flashes of radio emission whose progenitors are largely unknown. Although studying the FRB population is essential for understanding how these astrophysical phenomena occur, such…

Fast radio bursts appear to be cosmological signals whose frequency-time structure provides a dispersion measure. The dispersion measure is a convolution of the cosmic distance element and the electron density, and contains the possibility…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Pawan Kumar , Eric V. Linder

The dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode the integrated electron density along the line-of-sight, which is typically dominated by the intergalactic medium (IGM) contribution in the case of extragalactic FRBs. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Khee-Gan Lee , Metin Ata , Ilya S. Khrykin , Yuxin Huang , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jeff Cooke , Jielai Zhang , Adam Batten

Fast Radio Bursts are bright, unresolved, non-repeating, broadband, millisecond flashes, found primarily at high Galactic latitudes, with dispersion measures much larger than expected for a Galactic source. The inferred all-sky burst rate…

FRB 121102 is the only known repeating fast radio burst source. Here we analyze a wide-frequency-range (1-8 GHz) sample of high-signal-to-noise, coherently dedispersed bursts detected using the Arecibo and Green Bank telescopes. These…

The dispersion of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) can serve as a powerful probe of the diffuse plasma between and surrounding galaxies, which contains most of the Universe's baryons. By cross-correlating the dispersion of background…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the total column density of free electrons in the intergalactic medium (IGM) along the path of propagation though the dispersion measures (DMs) which depend on the baryon mass fraction in the IGM, i.e.,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Ji-Ping Dai , Jun-Qing Xia

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful cosmological probes in recent years offering valuable insights into cosmic expansion. These predominantly extragalactic transients encode information on the expansion of the Universe through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , David J. Bacon , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , David Wands

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as a powerful tool for cosmological studies, particularly through the dispersion measure-redshift ($\mathrm{DM}-z$) relation. This work proposes a novel calibration method for FRBs using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Ran Gao , He Gao , Zhengxiang Li , Yuan-Pei Yang

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…

A key measure of gravity is the relation between the Weyl potential $\Psi+\Phi$ and the matter overdensity $\delta_m$, encapsulated as an effective gravitational constant $G_{\rm light}$ for light motion. Its value, along with possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Shuren Zhou , Pengjie Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are astrophysical transients of currently unknown origin, and so far several events have been detected at extragalactic distances. The dispersion measure (DM) of the radio signal is a probe of the integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Lilow