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Fast Radio Burst (FRB) dispersion measures (DMs) record the presence of ionized baryons that are otherwise invisible to other techniques enabling resolution of the matter distribution in the cosmic web. In this work, we aim to estimate the…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a sensitive probe of ionized baryons through their dispersion measure (DM). In addition to slowly evolving cosmological terms, at least two repeaters now show clear secular DM-decrease episodes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Zhao Joseph Zhang , Gaku Kawashima , Shiu-Hang Lee , Kentaro Nagamine , Bing Zhang , Yusei Fujimaru

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are emerging as powerful cosmological probes for constraining the baryon fraction in the intergalactic medium (IGM), offering a promising avenue to address the missing baryon problem. In this paper, we analyze…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Yang Liu , Yuchen Zhang , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

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

The first precise localization of a fast radio burst (FRB), leading to an association with a low metallicity dwarf galaxy at $z=0.193$, has began to shed light on the nature of these mysterious bursts and the physical mechanisms that power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 T. Eftekhari , E. Berger

A major issue in contemporary cosmology is the persistent discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates from local measurements and those inferred from early-Universe observations under the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

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…

The population of fast radio bursts (FRBs) will continue to diverge into two groups depending on their method of discovery: those which can be localised, and those which cannot. Events potentially less useful for astronomical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 C. R. H. Walker , Y. -Z. Ma , R. P. Breton

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short timescale (<<1 s) astrophysical radio signals, presumed to be a signature of cataclysmic events of extragalactic origin. The discovery of six high-redshift events at ~1400 MHz from the Parkes radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cathryn M. Trott , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

Accurate dose distribution prediction is crucial in the radiotherapy planning. Although previous methods based on convolutional neural network have shown promising performance, they have the problem of over-smoothing, leading to prediction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Xin Liao , Zhenghao Feng , Jianghong Xiao , Xingchen Peng , Yan Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a type of highly-polarized, millisecond-duration electromagnetic pulses in the radio band, which are mostly produced at cosmological distances. These properties provide a natural laboratory for testing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

The spatial curvature of the Universe remains a central question in modern cosmology. In this work, we explore the potential of localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as a novel tool to constrain the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$ in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Gustavo E. Romero

The search for a space-time variation of the fundamental constants has been explored over the years to test our physical theories. In this paper, we use the dispersion measure ($DM$) of fast radio bursts (FRB) combined with type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Thais Lemos , Rodrigo Gonçalves , Joel Carvalho , Jailson Alcaniz

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

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

The distribution of baryons in the Universe remains a fundamental open question in astronomy, and the dispersion measure (DM) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) serves as a valuable tool for probing this cosmic gas. We investigate the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Maryam Hussaini , Liam Connor , Ralf M. Konietzka , Vikram Ravi , Jakob Faber , Kritti Sharma , Myles Sherman

The Hubble constant ($H_0$) is one of the most important parameters in the standard $\rm \Lambda CDM$ model. The measurements given by the main two methods show a gap larger than $4\sigma$, which is known as Hubble tension. Fast radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 D. H. Gao , Q. Wu , J. P. Hu , S. X. Yi , X. Zhou , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

The intrinsic width and scattering distributions of fast radio bursts (FRBs) inform on their emission mechanism and local environment, and act as a source of detection bias and, hence, an obfuscating factor when performing FRB population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-06 C. W. James , J. Hoffmann , J. X. Prochaska , M. Glowacki

Recent studies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have led to many theories associating them with young neutron stars. If this is the case, then the presence of supernova ejecta and stellar winds provide a changing dispersion measure (DM) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Anthony L. Piro , B. M. Gaensler