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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several micro- to milliseconds and come from unidentified objects at cosmological distances, most of which are only seen once. Based on recently published data in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiang-Han Cui , Cheng-Min Zhang , Di Li , Jian-Wei Zhang , Bo Peng , Wei-Wei Zhu , Richard Strom , Shuang-Qiang Wang , Na Wang , Qing-Dong Wu , De-Hua Wang , Yi-Yan Yang

The dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a valuable tool for probing the baryonic content of the intergalactic and the circumgalactic medium of the intervening galaxies along the sightlines. However, interpreting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-26 Jiale Wang , Zheng Zhou , Xiaochuan Jiang , Taotao Fang

Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRB's) is a central unsolved problem in astrophysics that is severely hampered by their poorly determined distance scale. Determining the redshift distribution of FRB's appears to require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith , Kiyoshi W. Masui

The recent detection of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) in an old globular cluster in M81 challenges traditional FRB formation mechanisms based on magnetic activity in young neutron stars formed recently in core-collapse supernovae.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Kyle Kremer , Dongzi Li , Wenbin Lu , Anthony L. Piro , Bing Zhang

Using the results of the IllustrisTNG simulation we estimate the dispersion measure which may be attributed to halos of so called host galaxies of fast radio bursts sources (FRBs). Our results show that in contradiction to assumptions used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-14 M. Jaroszynski

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients with extremely high brightness temperatures at cosmological distances, and the physical origin and the radiation mechanism of FRBs are still unknown. The observed spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Yuan-Pei Yang

Compact radio sources such as pulsars and FRBs undergo scintillation in the interstellar medium (ISM) when scattered images interfere at the observer. ``Scintillometry'' refers to the range of techniques to extract astrometric information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Dylan L. Jow , Delon Shen

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) emit broad band radio wave radiation that may, in rare cases, encode atomic hydrogen (HI) absorption signals produced as they traverse the interstellar medium of their host galaxies. Combining such signals with high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Hugh Roxburgh , Marcin Glowacki , Apurba Bera , Clancy James

Where the cosmic baryons lie in and around galactic dark matter halos is only weakly constrained. We develop a method to quickly paint on models for their distribution. Our approach uses the statistical advantages of $N$-body simulations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-29 Ian Williams , Adnan Khan , Matthew McQuinn

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

The polarization of fast radio bursts (FRBs), bright astronomical transients, contains crucial information about their environments. We report polarization measurements of five repeating FRBs, the abundant signals of which enable wide-band…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) display a confounding variety of burst properties and host galaxy associations. Repeating FRBs offer insight into the FRB population by enabling spectral, temporal and polarimetric properties to be tracked over…

Recent observations of FRB 20190520B have revealed rapid fluctuation of its Dispersion Measure within apparently fixed bounds, as well as a reversal of its Rotation Measure. The fluctuations of Dispersion Measure are uncorrelated with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 J. I. Katz

The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon content of the intergalactic medium, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic dispersion. While the host galaxy contributions to…

Aims: The enigma of the missing baryons poses a prominent and unresolved problem in astronomy. Dispersion measures (DM) serve as a distinctive observable of fast radio bursts (FRBs). They quantify the electron column density along each line…

We present a catalog of 536 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project between 400 and 800 MHz from 2018 July 25 to 2019 July 1, including 62 bursts from 18…

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of highly energetic, mostly extragalactic radio transients lasting for a few milliseconds. While over 600 FRBs have been published so far, their origins are presently unclear, with some theories for…

A sample of 14 FRBs with measured redshifts and scattering times is used to assess contributions to dispersion and scattering from the intergalactic medium (IGM), galaxy halos, and the disks of host galaxies. The IGM and galaxy halos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 James M. Cordes , Stella Koch Ocker , Shami Chatterjee

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic transients of (sub-)millisecond duration that show wide-ranging spectral, temporal, and polarimetric properties. The polarimetric analysis of FRBs can be used to probe intervening media, study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Pavan A. Uttarkar , R. M. Shannon , K. Gourdji , A. T. Deller , C. K. Day , S. Bhandari
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