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What It Takes to Measure Reionization with Fast Radio Bursts

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 933, 期 1, 页码 -

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac70c9

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  1. Royal Society University Research Fellowship
  2. NSF [AAG-1616042, OIA-1458952, PHY-1430284]
  3. STFC
  4. URF Enhancement Award

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In this study, we apply a model-independent approach to measure reionization using Fast Radio Burst (FRB) data, which can provide more accurate constraints on cosmological parameters such as the CMB optical depth and the shape of reionization.
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients that exhibit a distance-dependent dispersion of their signal, and thus can be used as cosmological probes. In this article we, for the first time, apply a model-independent approach to measure reionization from synthetic FRB data assuming these signals are detected beyond redshift 5. This method allows us to constrain the full shape of the reionization history as well as the CMB optical depth tau while avoiding the problems of commonly used model-based techniques. A total of 100 localized FRBs, originating from redshifts 5-15, could constrain (at 68% confidence level) the CMB optical depth to within 11%, and the midpoint of reionization to 4%, surpassing current state-of-the-art CMB bounds and quasar limits. Owing to the higher numbers of expected FRBs at lower redshifts, the tau constraints are asymmetric (+14%, -7%), providing a much stronger lower limit. Finally, we show that the independent constraints on reionization from FRBs will improve limits on other cosmological parameters, such as the amplitude of the power spectrum of primordial fluctuations.

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