Improvement of cosmological constraints with the cross correlation between line-of-sight optical galaxy and FRB dispersion measure

Understand

Fast Radio Bursts (hereafter FRBs) can be used in cosmology by studying the Dispersion Measure (hereafter DM) as a function of redshift.

• The large scale structure of matter distribution is regarded as a major error budget for such application.
• Using optical galaxy and dispersion measure mocks built from N-body simulations, we have shown that the galaxy number density can be used as a tracer for large scale electron density and help improve the measurement of DM as a function of redshift.
• We have shown that, using the line-of-sight galaxy number counts within 1' around the given localized FRB source can help improve the cosmological parameter constraints by more than 20%.