FRB Applications and Tools Catalog
FRBs as Astrophysical Tools
Historical Papers
Haddock & Sciama 1965: Proposal for the Detection of Dispersion in Radio-Wave Propagation Through Intergalactic Space
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
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McQuinn 2014
: (m14)
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Deng & Zhang 2014
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Shull & Danforth 2018
Li et al. 2019
Wei et al. 2019: (Seems like they just comine with H(z) measurement(is anyone directly measureing it?) and call it "cosmology independent")
Walters et al. 2019
Rafiei-Ravandi, Smith & Masui 2020: Characterizing FRBs through statistical cross-correlations
Qiang & Wei 2020: Reconstructing the fraction of baryons in the intergalactic medium with FRBs via Gaussian processes
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
Lee et al. 2022: Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Distribution with FRB Foreground Mapping
Lemos et al. 2023: Forecasting constraints on the baryon mass fraction in the IGM from FRBs and type Ia supernovae
Reischke et al. 2023
: Calibrating baryonic feedback with weak lensing and fast radio bursts
Applied
Li et al. 2020
Macquart et al. 2020
Rafiei-Ravandi et al. 2021
Bao & Jun-Jie 2022
Yang et al. 2022
Lin et al. 2023: Constraints on the Intergalactic and Local DM of FRBs with the CHIME/FRB far side-lobe events
Baptista et al. 2023: Measuring the Variance of the Macquart Relation in z-DM Modeling
LSS/Cosmography
Masui & Sigurdson 2015: Mapping of the 3D matter distribution in dispersion space (Without zs. I think its impossible because of large host DMs.
Takahashi et al. 2021
Batten et al. 2022: FRBs as probes of feedback from AGN
Reischke & Hagstotz 2023: Covariance Matrix of FRBs Dispersion
Fortunato et al. 2023: Cosmography from well-localized FRBs
Takahashi 2024
: Impact of lensing bias on the cosmological dispersion measure
CGM of intersected galaxies
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Ravi 2019
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Prochaska & Zheng 2019
Milky Way halo
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Prochaska & Zheng 2019
Keating & Pen 2020
Platts et al. 2020
Kelly et al. 2021
Hubble constant
Wu et al. 2021: An 8% Determination of the Hubble Constant from localized FRBs
Liu et al. 2022: Cosmological-model-independent determination of Hubble constant from FRBs and Hubble parameter measurements
Hagstotz et al. 2022: A new measurement of the Hubble constant using FRBs
James et al. 2022: A measurement of Hubble's Constant using FRBs
Zhao et al. 2022: First statistical measurement of the Hubble constant using unlocalized FRBs
Gao et al. 2023: A Measurement of Hubble Constant Using Cosmographic Approach from FRBs and SNe Ia
Cosmological parameters
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Zhou et al. 2014
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Gao et al. 2014
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Yang & Zhang 2016
Wei et al. 2018
Hashimoto et al. 2019
(Luminosity-Duration Relation)
Wu et al. 2020
Zhao et al. 2020
Qiang & Wei 2021
Shirasaki et al. 2021: Probing cosmology and gastrophysics with FRBs: Cross-correlations of dark matter haloes and cosmic DMs
Zhao et al 2022: Probing the interaction between dark energy and dark matter with future FRB observations
Boon & McQuinn: Solar System-scale interferometry on FRBs could measure cosmic distances with sub-percent precision
Wu et al. 2022: Path to precision cosmology: Synergy between four promising late-universe cosmological probes
Zhang et al. 2023: Cosmology with FRBs in the era of SKA
Compine with SZ-effect
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Fialkov & Loeb 2016
(optical depth of CMB)
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Fujita et al. 2017
Muñoz & Loeb 2018
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Madhavacheril et al. 2019: (Breaking the optical depth degeneracy of the kSZ)
Epoch of reionization
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Deng & Zhang 2014
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Fialkov & Loeb 2016
(optical depth of CMB)
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Yoshiura et al. 2018
(star forming galaxies emitting UV photons)
Hashimoto et al. 2021
Beniamini et al. 2021
Pagano & Fronenberg 2021
Zhang et al. 2021: IGM DMs of FRBs Estimated from IllustrisTNG Simulation and Their Cosmological Applications
Heimersheim et al. 2022: What it takes to measure reionization with FRBs
Helium reionization
Zheng et al. 2014
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Caleb et al. 2019
Linder 2020
Dai & Xia 2021
Bhattacharya, Kumar & Linder 2021
Lau et al. 2021
IGM magnetic fields
(Zheng et al. 2014: The formulas they provide seem to ignore that magnetic fields can be negative)
Akahori et al. 2016
Vazza et al. 2017
Vazza et al. 2018
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Hackstein et al. 2019
Hackstein et al. 2020
Lensing H_0 and curvature/ DE EoS via strongly lensed FRBs
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Zitrin et al. 2018
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Li et al. 2018
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Wagner et al. 2019
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Liu et al. 2019
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Oguri 2019: Review on "Strong gravitational lensing of explosive transients"
Wucknitz et al. 2020
Ding et al. 2021
Zhao et al 2022: (Seems to be the same as Let al. 2018 comined with SNe)
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
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Muñoz et al. 2016
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Wang et al. 2018
Laha
2020
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Choi et al. 2019
Sammons et al. 2020
Lewis 2020: (Difficult to understand, ignores most previous literature)
Liao et al. 2020
Zhou et al. 2022
Zhou et al. 2022
Ho et al. 2023: Future Constraints on Dark Matter with Gravitationally Lensed FRBs Detected by BURSTT
Diffractive gravitational lensing
Zheng et al. 2014
Eichler 2017
Katz et al. 2019
Jow et al. 2020
Applications
Kader et al. 2022
Leung et al. 2022
Constraints on the Photon Mass
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Wu et al. 2016
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Bonetti et al. 2016
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Bonetti et al. 2017
Shao & Zhang 2017
: Bayesian framework to constrain the photon mass with a catalog of FRBs
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Xing et al. 2019
Wei & Wu 2021
(Review)
Wei & Wu 2020: Combined Limit on the Photon Mass with Nine Localized FRBs
Wang et al. 2021: Bounding the photon mass with cosmological propagation of FRBs
Chang et al. 2022: Bounding the Photon Mass with the Dedispersed Pulses of the Crab Pulsar and FRB 180916B
Lin et al. 2023: Revised constraints on the photon mass from well-localized FRBs
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)
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Wei et al. 2015
Nusser 2016
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Wu et al. 2017
Yu et al. 2018
(Primary application GRBs; only mentions FRBs in passing.)
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Xing et al. 2019
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Wang et al. 2019
Minazzoli et al. 2019
Reischke & et al. 2022
: Consistent equivalence principle tests with fast radio bursts
Hashimoto et al. 2021
Kaustubha et al. 2022
Reischke & Hagstotz 2023: Consistent Constraints on the Equivalence Principle from localised FRBs
Constraining Fundamental Constants
Surajit Kalita
Dark photon dark matter
Landim 2020
Cosmic anisotropy
Qiang et al. 2019
Cai et al. 2019
Lin & Sang 2021
Swampland & H_0 tension
Wang et al. 2019
Constraint on the equation of state of nuclear matter, if observed with a GW from BNS merger
Yamasaki et al. 2020
Probe turbulent properties
Macquart & Koay 2013: Temporal Smearing of Transient Radio Sources by the Intergalactic Medium
Others
Yu & Wang 2017: Measuring the cosmic proper distance from fast radio bursts
Xu & Zhang 2020: Probing the Intergalactic Turbulence with FRBs
Reischke & et al. 2021: Primordial non-Gaussianity
Simard & Ravi 2021: Extragalactic ISMs
Pearson et al. 2021: Searching for Gravitational Waves with Strongly Lensed Repeating FRBs
Abadi & Kovetz 2021: Probing Gravitational Slip with Strongly Lensed FRBs (slip=parameter in screened modified gravity models)
Jing & Xia 2022: Constraints on the Helium Abundance from FRBs
Xiao et al. 2022: Detecting Cosmic Strings with Lensed FRBs
Application comparison
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Walters et al. 2018
Jaroszynski 2019
Kumar & Linder 2019
Reviews and white papers
Macquart et al. 2015: Fast Transients at Cosmological Distances with the SKA
Ravi et al. 2019
Bhandari & Flynn 2021
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:
Wang et al. 2020: Weak equivalence principle, swampland and H0 tension with fast single radio bursts FRB 180924 and FRB 190523