期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 780, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/780/2/L33
关键词
cosmology: theory; intergalactic medium; large-scale structure of universe; radio continuum: general
资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration through Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- NASA [NAS 5-26555]
Recently, Thornton and coworkers confirmed a class of millisecond radio bursts likely of extragalactic origin that is well-suited for estimating dispersion measures (DMs). We calculate the probability distribution of DM(z) in different models for how the cosmic baryons are distributed (both analytically and with cosmological simulations). We show that the distribution of DM is quite sensitive to whether the missing baryons lie around the virial radius of 10(11)-10(13) M-circle dot halos or further out, which is not easily constrained with other observational techniques. The intrinsic contribution to DM from each source could complicate studies of the extragalactic contribution. This difficulty is avoided by stacking based on the impact parameter to foreground galaxies. We show that a stacking analysis using a sample of similar to 100 DM measurements from arcminute-localized, z greater than or similar to 0.5 sources would place interesting constraints at 0.2-2 halo virial radii on the baryonic mass profile surrounding different galaxy types. Conveniently for intergalactic studies, sightlines that intersect intervening galactic disks should be easily identified owing to scattering. A detectable level of scattering may also result from turbulence in the circumgalactic medium.
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