Xu, Siyao and Weinberg, David H. and Zhang, Bing (2021) Statistical Measurements of Dispersion Measure Fluctuations in Fast Radio Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 922 (2). L31. ISSN 2041-8205
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Abstract
Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) have large dispersion measures (DMs) and are unique probes of intergalactic electron density fluctuations. By using the recently released First CHIME/FRB Catalog, we reexamined the structure function (SF) of DM fluctuations. It shows a large DM fluctuation similar to that previously reported in Xu & Zhang, but no clear correlation hinting toward large-scale turbulence is reproduced with this larger sample. To suppress the distortion effect from FRB distances and their host DMs, we focus on a subset of CHIME catalog with DM < 500 pc cm−3. A trend of nonconstant SF and nonzero correlation function (CF) at angular separations θ less than 10° is seen, but with large statistical uncertainties. The difference found between SF and that derived from CF at θ ≲ 10° can be ascribed to the large statistical uncertainties or the density inhomogeneities on scales on the order of 100 Mpc. The possible correlation of electron density fluctuations and inhomogeneities of density distribution should be tested when several thousands of FRBs are available.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Librbary Digital > Physics and Astronomy |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email support@librbarydigit.com |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2023 07:35 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2024 07:08 |
URI: | http://info.openarchivelibrary.com/id/eprint/549 |