Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Strongly lensed repeating fast radio bursts as precision probes of the universe

  • Zheng-Xiang Li,
  • He Gao,
  • Xu-Heng Ding,
  • Guo-Jian Wang,
  • Bing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06303-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are likely to be gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxies. Here, the authors propose to make accurate measurements of time delays between images of lensed FRBs as a powerful probe for precision cosmology.