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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer a powerful probe of the ionized Universe through their dispersion measures (DM). While a significant fraction of the DM arises from the intergalactic medium (IGM), the contributions from the host galaxy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gunalan Muthusami , Gopal Kashyap

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

The dispersion measure(DM) of fast radio burst encodes important information such as its distance, properties of intervening medium. Based on simulations in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG projects, we analyze the DM of FRBs contributed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Yang Wang , Lin Tang , Long-Long Feng

The pulse widths, dispersion measures and dispersion indices of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. We show that if the dispersion measures resulted from propagation through the intergalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-07 J. I. Katz

Understanding physical mechanisms relies on the accurate determination of fundamental constants, although inherent limitations in experimental techniques introduce uncertainties into these measurements. This paper explores the uncertainties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Surajit Kalita

We analyze the positional and morphological properties of about 3600 unique fast radio burst (FRB) sources reported in the second FRB catalog generated by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. We find a…

The detection of six Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has recently been reported. FRBs are short duration ($\sim$ 1 ms), highly dispersed radio pulses from astronomical sources. The physical interpretation for the FRBs remains unclear but is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Divya Palaniswamy , Randall B. Wayth , Cathryn M. Trott , Jamie N. McCallum , Steven J. Tingay , Cormac Reynolds

Detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs) requires software pipelines to search for dispersed single pulses of emission in radio telescope data. In order to enable an unbiased estimation of the underlying FRB population, it is important to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hao Qiu , Evan F. Keane , Keith W. Bannister , Clancy W. James , Ryan M. Shannon

The dispersion of fast radio bursts (FRBs) measures the column density of free electrons, tracing the diffuse ionized gas that contains more than $90\%$ of all baryons. On linear scales the FRB dispersion field is an approximately unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shion Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi Masui , Josh Borrow , Calvin Leung , Ryan Raikman , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , James M. Sullivan

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

The dispersion measure (DM) of high-redshift $(z \gtrsim 6)$ transient objects such as Fast Radio Bursts can be a powerful tool to probe the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization. In this paper, we study the variance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed, sporadic radio pulses that are likely extragalactic in nature. Here we investigate the constraints on the source population from surveys carried out at frequencies $<1$~GHz. All but one FRB has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Kaustubh Rajwade , Duncan Lorimer

We report the first discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 20200125A, by the Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap (GBNCC) Pulsar Survey conducted with the Green Bank Telescope at 350 MHz. FRB 20200125A was detected at a Galactic latitude…

The large-scale distribution of baryons is sensitive to gravitational collapse, mergers, and galactic feedback. Known as the Cosmic Web, its large-scale structure (LSS) can be classified as halos, filaments, and voids. Fast Radio Bursts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Charles R. H. Walker , Laura G. Spitler , Yin-Zhe Ma , Cheng Cheng , M. Celeste Artale , Cameron Hummels

The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in conjunction with their redshifts can be used as powerful probes of the distribution of extragalactic plasma. With a large enough sample, the free-electron--galaxy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 April Qiu Cheng , Shion Elizabeth Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi W. Masui

Constrained measurements of fundamental physical constants using astronomical observational data represent a powerful method for investigating potential new physics. In particular, the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Shi-Yuan Wang , Jun-Qing Xia

Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is an extremely energetic cosmic phenomenon of short duration. Discovered only recently and with its origin still unknown, FRBs have already started to play a significant role in studying the distribution and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Xuerong Guo , Han Wang , Yifan Xiao , Huaxi Chen , Yinan Ke , ChenChen Miao , Pei Wang , Di Li , Chenwu Jin , Ling He , Yi Feng , Yongkun Zhang , Jiaying Xu , Guangyong Chen

Our understanding of the universe relies mostly on electromagnetism. As photons are the messengers, fundamental physics is concerned in testing their properties. Photon mass upper limits have been earlier set through pulsar observations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Mark J. Bentum , Luca Bonetti , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasma mostly located in the intergalactic medium. We observe a…

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
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