Abstract
ABSTRACT Utilizing cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, we quantify the distributions of the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs). We examine the contributions of cold, warm-hot, and hot gas to the total DM. We find that the hot gas component (T > 107K), on average, makes a minor contribution ($\le 5{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$) to the overall DM. Cold (T < 105K) and warm-hot (T = 105 − 107K) gas components make comparable contributions to DM for FRBs at z = 1, with the former component making an increasingly larger contribution towards higher redshift. We provide a detailed DM distribution of FRBs at z = 0.25 to z = 2 that may be compared to observations. We also compute the relation between the Compton y parameter and DM, finding a strong correlation, y∝DM4, providing an additional, independent constraint on the nature of the DM of FRBs.
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