====== FRB Applications and Tools Catalog ====== ===== FRBs as Astrophysical Tools ===== - Historical Papers * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965PhRvL..14.1007H|Haddock & Sciama 1965: Proposal for the Detection of Dispersion in Radio-Wave Propagation Through Intergalactic Space]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973Natur.246..415G|Ginzburg 1973: Possibility of Determining Intergalactic Gas Density by Radio Observations of Flares of Remote Sources]] - Missing baryons / investigation of WHIM from FRB extragalactic DMs / feedback * ✔[[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...780L..33M|McQuinn 2014]]: (m14) * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...783L..35D|Deng & Zhang 2014]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...852L..11S|Shull & Danforth 2018]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190408927L|Li et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019JCAP...09..039W|Wei et al. 2019: (Seems like they just comine with H(z) measurement(is anyone directly measureing it?) and call it "cosmology independent")]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PhRvD.100j3519W|Walters et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv191209520R|Rafiei-Ravandi, Smith & Masui 2020: Characterizing FRBs through statistical cross-correlations]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200210189Q|Qiang & Wei 2020: Reconstructing the fraction of baryons in the intergalactic medium with FRBs via Gaussian processes]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.503.4576D|Dai & Xai 2021: (Auto correlation of DM angular power-spectrum with zedshift binning) Reconstruction of baryon fraction in intergalactic medium through dispersion measurements of FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...928....9L|Lee et al. 2022: Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Distribution with FRB Foreground Mapping]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230706911L|Lemos et al. 2023: Forecasting constraints on the baryon mass fraction in the IGM from FRBs and type Ia supernovae]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230909766R/abstract|Reischke et al. 2023]]: Calibrating baryonic feedback with weak lensing and fast radio bursts * Applied * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200408393L|Li et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Natur.581..391M|Macquart et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...922...42R|Rafiei-Ravandi et al. 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv221102209W|Bao & Jun-Jie 2022]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04058|Yang et al. 2022]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230705262L|Lin et al. 2023: Constraints on the Intergalactic and Local DM of FRBs with the CHIME/FRB far side-lobe events]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230507022B/|Baptista et al. 2023: Measuring the Variance of the Macquart Relation in z-DM Modeling]] - LSS/Cosmography * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015PhRvL.115l1301M/abstract|Masui & Sigurdson 2015: Mapping of the 3D matter distribution in dispersion space (Without zs. I think its impossible because of large host DMs.]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502.2615T|Takahashi et al. 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.512L..49B|Batten et al. 2022: FRBs as probes of feedback from AGN]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.524.2237R|Reischke & Hagstotz 2023: Covariance Matrix of FRBs Dispersion]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230704711F|Fortunato et al. 2023: Cosmography from well-localized FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240706621T/abstract | Takahashi 2024]]: Impact of lensing bias on the cosmological dispersion measure - CGM of intersected galaxies * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...872...88R|Ravi 2019]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.485..648P|Prochaska & Zheng 2019]] * - Milky Way halo * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.485..648P|Prochaska & Zheng 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200111105K|Keating & Pen 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200506256P|Platts et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.514.3113K|Kelly et al. 2021]] - Hubble constant * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00581|Wu et al. 2021: An 8% Determination of the Hubble Constant from localized FRBs]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05202|Liu et al. 2022: Cosmological-model-independent determination of Hubble constant from FRBs and Hubble parameter measurements]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.511..662H/abstract|Hagstotz et al. 2022: A new measurement of the Hubble constant using FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.516.4862J/abstract|James et al. 2022: A measurement of Hubble's Constant using FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv221213433Z/abstract|Zhao et al. 2022: First statistical measurement of the Hubble constant using unlocalized FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230708285G/abstract|Gao et al. 2023: A Measurement of Hubble Constant Using Cosmographic Approach from FRBs and SNe Ia]] - Cosmological parameters * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PhRvD..89j7303Z|Zhou et al. 2014]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...788..189G/abstract|Gao et al. 2014]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016ApJ...830L..31Y/abstract|Yang & Zhang 2016]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018ApJ...860L...7W/abstract|Wei et al. 2018]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.488.1908H/abstract|Hashimoto et al. 2019]] (Luminosity-Duration Relation) * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200412649W/abstract|Wu et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200601450Z/abstract|Zhao et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210200579Q/abstract|Qiang & Wei 2021]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12205|Shirasaki et al. 2021: Probing cosmology and gastrophysics with FRBs: Cross-correlations of dark matter haloes and cosmic DMs]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07162|Zhao et al 2022: Probing the interaction between dark energy and dark matter with future FRB observations]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07159|Boon & McQuinn: Solar System-scale interferometry on FRBs could measure cosmic distances with sub-percent precision]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09726|Wu et al. 2022: Path to precision cosmology: Synergy between four promising late-universe cosmological probes]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230701605Z/abstract|Zhang et al. 2023: Cosmology with FRBs in the era of SKA]] - Compine with SZ-effect * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016JCAP...05..004F/abstract |Fialkov & Loeb 2016]] (optical depth of CMB) * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/?#abs/2017ApJ...834...13F|Fujita et al. 2017]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018PhRvD..98j3518M|Muñoz & Loeb 2018]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PhRvD.100j3532M|Madhavacheril et al. 2019: (Breaking the optical depth degeneracy of the kSZ)]] - Epoch of reionization * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...783L..35D/abstract|Deng & Zhang 2014]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016JCAP...05..004F/abstract |Fialkov & Loeb 2016]] (optical depth of CMB) * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018MNRAS.473.1570Y/abstract|Yoshiura et al. 2018]] (star forming galaxies emitting UV photons) * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502.2346H/abstract|Hashimoto et al. 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502.5134B/abstract|Beniamini et al. 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210303252P/abstract|Pagano & Fronenberg 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...906...49Z|Zhang et al. 2021: IGM DMs of FRBs Estimated from IllustrisTNG Simulation and Their Cosmological Applications]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...933...57H/abstract|Heimersheim et al. 2022: What it takes to measure reionization with FRBs]] - Helium reionization * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...797...71Z/abstract|Zheng et al. 2014]] * ✔[[http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2019MNRAS.485.2281C|Caleb et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200111517L/abstract|Linder 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200411276D/abstract|Dai & Xia 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv201014530B/abstract|Bhattacharya, Kumar & Linder 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200611072K/abstract|Lau et al. 2021]] - IGM magnetic fields * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...797...71Z/abstract|(Zheng et al. 2014: The formulas they provide seem to ignore that magnetic fields can be negative)]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016ApJ...824..105A/abstract|Akahori et al. 2016]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017CQGra..34w4001V/abstract|Vazza et al. 2017]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018MNRAS.480.3907V/abstract|Vazza et al. 2018]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.488.4220H/abstract|Hackstein et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.498.4811H|Hackstein et al. 2020]] - Lensing H_0 and curvature/ DE EoS via strongly lensed FRBs * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018ApJ...866..101Z/abstract|Zitrin et al. 2018]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018NatCo...9.3833L/abstract|Li et al. 2018]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...621A..91W/abstract|Wagner et al. 2019]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PhRvD..99l3517L/abstract|Liu et al. 2019]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019RPPh...82l6901O/abstract|Oguri 2019: Review on "Strong gravitational lensing of explosive transients"]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200411643W/abstract|Wucknitz et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.504.5621D/abstract|Ding et al. 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...916...70Z/abstract|Zhao et al 2022: (Seems to be the same as Let al. 2018 comined with SNe)]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220614310C/abstract|Connor & Ravi 2022: Stellar prospects for FRB gravitational lensing (including "a new application of FRB gravitational lensing that will measure directly the circumgalactic medium of intervening galaxies")]] - MACHO abundancy via microlensing * Distinct Bursts * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016PhRvL.117i1301M/abstract|Muñoz et al. 2016]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...614A..50W/abstract|Wang et al. 2018]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018arXiv181211810L/abstract|Laha]] [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020PhRvD.102b3016L/abstract|2020]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019JCAP...10..043C/abstract |Choi et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200212533S/abstract|Sammons et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.497.1583L/abstract|Lewis 2020: (Difficult to understand, ignores most previous literature)]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...896L..11L/abstract|Liao et al. 2020]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...928..124Z/abstract|Zhou et al. 2022]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.511.1141Z/abstract|Zhou et al. 2022]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230404990H/abstract|Ho et al. 2023: Future Constraints on Dark Matter with Gravitationally Lensed FRBs Detected by BURSTT]] * Diffractive gravitational lensing * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...797...71Z/abstract|Zheng et al. 2014]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...850..159E/abstract|Eichler 2017]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv191207620K/abstract|Katz et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200201570J/abstract|Jow et al. 2020]] * Applications * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220406014K/abstract|Kader et al. 2022]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220406001L/abstract|Leung et al. 2022]] - Constraints on the Photon Mass * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016ApJ...822L..15W/abstract|Wu et al. 2016]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016PhLB..757..548B/abstract|Bonetti et al. 2016]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017PhLB..768..326B/abstract|Bonetti et al. 2017]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017PhRvD..95l3010S/abstract | Shao & Zhang 2017]]: Bayesian framework to constrain the photon mass with a catalog of FRBs * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...882L..13X/abstract | Xing et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210203724W/abstract|Wei & Wu 2021]] (Review) * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200609680W/abstract| Wei & Wu 2020: Combined Limit on the Photon Mass with Nine Localized FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021PhLB..82036596W/abstract|Wang et al. 2021: Bounding the photon mass with cosmological propagation of FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220700950C/abstract|Chang et al. 2022: Bounding the Photon Mass with the Dedispersed Pulses of the Crab Pulsar and FRB 180916B ]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230112103L/abstract|Lin et al. 2023: Revised constraints on the photon mass from well-localized FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230414784W/abstract|Wang et al. 2023: Revisiting constraints on the photon rest mass with cosmological FRBs]] - Testing Einstein's Equivalence Principle(s) (First one assumes FRB/GRB association) * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015PhRvL.115z1101W/abstract|Wei et al. 2015]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...821L...2N/abstract | Nusser 2016]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017PhRvD..95j3004W/abstract|Wu et al. 2017]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018ApJ...860..173Y/abstract|Yu et al. 2018]] (Primary application GRBs; only mentions FRBs in passing.) * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...882L..13X/abstract | Xing et al. 2019]] * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190702838W/abstract | Wang et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PhRvD.100j4047M/abstract | Minazzoli et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.512..285R/abstract | Reischke & et al. 2022]]: Consistent equivalence principle tests with fast radio bursts * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv211111447H/abstract | Hashimoto et al. 2021]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv211111451S/abstract | Kaustubha et al. 2022]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230210072R/abstract | Reischke & Hagstotz 2023: Consistent Constraints on the Equivalence Principle from localised FRBs ]] - Constraining Fundamental Constants * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.533L..57K/abstract | Surajit Kalita]] - Dark photon dark matter * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200508621L/abstract|Landim 2020]] - Cosmic anisotropy * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190203580Q/abstract|Qiang et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019JCAP...09..016C/abstract|Cai et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv211112934L/abstract|Lin & Sang 2021]] - Swampland & H_0 tension *[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190702838W/abstract |Wang et al. 2019]] - Constraint on the equation of state of nuclear matter, if observed with a GW from BNS merger * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07796 |Yamasaki et al. 2020]] - Probe turbulent properties * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...776..125M|Macquart & Koay 2013: Temporal Smearing of Transient Radio Sources by the Intergalactic Medium]] - Others * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017A&A...606A...3Y/abstract|Yu & Wang 2017: Measuring the cosmic proper distance from fast radio bursts]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...898L..48X|Xu & Zhang 2020: Probing the Intergalactic Turbulence with FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021PhRvD.103b3517R/abstract|Reischke & et al. 2021: Primordial non-Gaussianity]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11334|Simard & Ravi 2021: Extragalactic ISMs]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11252|Pearson et al. 2021: Searching for Gravitational Waves with Strongly Lensed Repeating FRBs]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00403|Abadi & Kovetz 2021: Probing Gravitational Slip with Strongly Lensed FRBs (slip=parameter in screened modified gravity models)]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022Univ....8..317J/abstract|Jing & Xia 2022: Constraints on the Helium Abundance from FRBs]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220613534X/abstract|Xiao et al. 2022: Detecting Cosmic Strings with Lensed FRBs]] - Application comparison * ✔[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...856...65W/abstract|Walters et al. 2018]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.484.1637J/abstract|Jaroszynski 2019]] * [[https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083533|Kumar & Linder 2019]] - Reviews and white papers * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015aska.confE..55M|Macquart et al. 2015: Fast Transients at Cosmological Distances with the SKA]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019BAAS...51c.420R|Ravi et al. 2019]] * [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021Univ....7...85B|Bhandari & Flynn 2021]] * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24072|Glowacki & Lee 2024]] - not an application (Simulation of IGM structure influence) *[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018ApJ...865..147Z/abstract]] - Probe of FRB environment *[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017PhRvD..95h3012S/abstract]] Methods applied: - [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02838|Wang et al. 2020: Weak equivalence principle, swampland and H0 tension with fast single radio bursts FRB 180924 and FRB 190523]]