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The repeating fast radio burst FRB20190520B is an anomaly of the FRB population thanks to its high dispersion measure (DM$=1205\,$pc/cc) despite its low redshift of $z_\mathrm{frb}=0.241$. This excess has been attributed to a large host…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been found in great numbers, but the physical mechanism of these sources is still a mystery. The redshift evolutions of the FRB energy distribution function and the volumetric rate shed light on the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jia-Ming Zou , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Magnetars are the most promising progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Strong radio waves propagating through the magnetar wind are subject to non-linear effects, including modulation/filamentation instabilities. We derive the dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri Lyubarsky , Andrei Beloborodov , Lorenzo Sironi

We analyze the sources of free electrons that produce the large dispersion measures, DM $\approx 300-1600$ (in units cm$^{-3}$ pc), observed toward fast radio bursts (FRBs). Individual galaxies typically produce DM $\sim 25-60$ cm$^{-3}$ pc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 J. Michael Shull , Charles W. Danforth

We present 2-4 GHz observations of polarized radio galaxies towards eight fast radio bursts (FRBs), producing grids of Faraday rotation measure (RM) sources with sky densities of 9-28 polarized sources per square degree. Using a Bayesian…

Baryonic feedback fundamentally alters the total matter distribution on small to intermediate cosmological scales, posing a significant challenge for contemporary cosmological analyses. Direct tracers of the baryon distribution are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz

We consider the possible observation of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with planned future radio telescopes, and investigate how well the dispersions and redshifts of these signals might constrain cosmological parameters. We construct mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Anthony Walters , Amanda Weltman , B. M. Gaensler , Yin-Zhe Ma , Amadeus Witzemann

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio signals that last milliseconds. They originate from cosmological distances and have relatively high dispersion measures (DMs), making them being excellent distance indicators. However, the origins of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenqi Ma , Zhifu Gao , Biaopeng Li , Chenhui Niu , Jumei Yao , Fayin Wang

The FLIMFLAM survey is collecting spectroscopic data of field galaxies near fast radio burst (FRB) sightlines to constrain key parameters describing the distribution of matter in the Universe. In this work, we leverage the survey data to…

We examine the proposal that the dispersion measures (DMs) and Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of extragalactic linearly-polarized fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to probe the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu , B. M. Gaensler

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) probe baryons permeating the cosmic web through their dispersion measures (DMs), which encode the integrated electron density along cosmological sightlines. Using 3,455 unique FRB sources from CHIME/FRB with $\sim…

A few fast radio bursts' (FRBs) light-curves have exhibited large intrinsic modulations of their flux on extremely short ($t_{\rm r}\sim 10\mu$s) time scales, compared to pulse durations ($t_{\rm FRB}\sim1$ms). Light-curve variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar

We propose to use degree-scale angular clustering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to identify their origin and the host galaxy population. We study the information content in autocorrelation of the angular positions and dispersion measures (DM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Masato Shirasaki , Kazumi Kashiyama , Naoki Yoshida

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) discoveries are occurring rapidly, with thousands expected from upcoming surveys. The dispersion measures (DM) observed for FRB include important information on cosmological distances and the ionization state of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , Eric V. Linder

The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) provides a unique way to probe ionised baryons in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Cosmological models with different parameters lead to different DM-redshift ($\mathrm{DM}-z$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Nastasha Wijers , Vivek Gupta , Chris Flynn , Joop Schaye , Emma Ryan-Weber

We present a spectro-temporal analysis of 137 fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the first CHIME/FRB baseband catalog, including 125 one-off bursts and 12 repeat bursts, down to microsecond resolution using the least-squares optimization fitting…

The dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode the total ionized-gas column densities along their sightlines. Most observed FRBs originate at distances where the cosmological principle applies. Thus, variations in the DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Vikram Ravi , Kritti Sharma , Liam Connor

Redshift and luminosity distributions are essential for understanding the cosmic evolution of extragalactic objects and phenomena, such as galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, and fast radio bursts (FRBs). For FRBs, these distributions are primarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Om Gupta , Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar , Steven L. Finkelstein