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most citedFast-transient Searches in Real Time with ZTFReST: Identification of Three Optically-discovered Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows and New Constraints on the Kilonova Rate

87 citations · 356 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Tracing the Host-Galaxy Environments of FRBs with a New Sample of Localized Sources Detected with the DSA-110

Frank M. Verdi, Vikram Ravi, Myles B. Sherman +7

We characterize the source environments of a sample of fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected with the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA-110). We present new analyses of a sample of 24 FRBs whic…

astro-ph.HE2026

The DSA/Chronoscope fast radio burst survey: forecasts and science overview

Liam Connor, Kaitlyn Shin, Vikram Ravi +14

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright extragalactic transients with several mysteries surrounding their origins. Large FRB samples enable accurate measurements of the cosmic matter d…

astro-ph.CO2026

A new measurement of the FRB DM-galaxy cross correlation and a first joint analysis with the kinematic SZ effect

Samuel McCarty, Liam Connor, Kritti Sharma +8

Understanding the distribution of cosmic baryons is crucial for advancing cosmology and galaxy formation. Localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising new probe of the diffus…

astro-ph.CO2026

Baryons in the Darkest Sites of the Universe

Kritti Sharma, Vikram Ravi, Dhayaa Anbajagane +9

The pristine underdense patches of the Universe, cosmic voids, are powerful cosmological laboratories, uniquely sensitive to dark energy, modified gravity, and neutrino masses, yet…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

Backlighting the Cosmic Web with Fast Radio Bursts: An Anthology of Dispersion Measure Cross-Correlations with Large-Scale Structure and Baryon Tracers

Kritti Sharma, Elisabeth Krause, Vikram Ravi +11

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) probe baryons permeating the cosmic web through their dispersion measures (DMs), which encode the integrated electron density along cosmological sightlines…

astro-ph.CO2026

Signatures of Suppressed Matter Clustering revealed by Fast Radio Bursts

Kritti Sharma, Elisabeth Krause, Vikram Ravi +3

Complex astrophysical processes regulate the growth of galaxies by injecting energy and momentum into their surroundings, redistributing baryons across megaparsec scales. The clust…

astro-ph.CO2026

Great Walls of Cosmic Baryons in the Northern Sky

Vikram Ravi, Kritti Sharma, Liam Connor

The dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode the total ionized-gas column densities along their sightlines. Most observed FRBs originate at distances where the…

astro-ph.CO2025

Quantifying the impact of selection effects on FRB DM- relation cosmological inference

Kritti Sharma, Vikram Ravi, Liam Connor +3

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful probes of baryonic matter in the Universe, offering constraints on cosmological and feedback parameters through their extragalacti…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Deep Synoptic Array Science: Searching for Long Duration Radio Transients with the DSA-110

Myles B. Sherman, Nikita Kosogorov, Casey Law +10

We describe the design and commissioning tests for the DSA-110 Not-So-Fast Radio Burst (NSFRB) search pipeline, a 1.4GHz image-plane single-pulse search sensitive to 134ms-160.8s r…

astro-ph.CO2025

Probing baryonic feedback and cosmology with 32-point statistic of FRBs and galaxies

Kritti Sharma, Elisabeth Krause, Vikram Ravi +4

The impact of galaxy formation processes on the matter power spectrum is uncertain and may bias cosmological parameters inferred by large-scale structure surveys. Fast Radio Bursts…

astro-ph.HE2025

Optical/infrared observations of the extraordinary GRB 250702B: a highly obscured afterglow in a massive galaxy consistent with multiple possible progenitors

Jonathan Carney, Igor Andreoni, Brendan O'Connor +31

GRB 250702B was the longest gamma-ray burst ever detected, with a duration that challenges standard collapsar models and suggests an exotic progenitor. We collected a rich set of o…

astro-ph.HE2025

Fast Luminous Extragalactic Transients in the VLA Sky Survey: Implications for the rates of Accretion-Induced Collapse Events, Fast Blue Optical Transients and Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows

Kritti Sharma, Vikram Ravi, Dillon Z. Dong +7

Radio wavelengths offer a unique window into high-energy astrophysical phenomena that may be obscured or too rapidly evolving to be captured at other wavelengths. Leveraging data f…

astro-ph.CO2025

A Correlation Between FRB Dispersion Measure and Foreground Large-Scale Structure

Maryam Hussaini, Liam Connor, Ralf M. Konietzka +4

The distribution of baryons in the Universe remains a fundamental open question in astronomy, and the dispersion measure (DM) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) serves as a valuable tool…

astro-ph.HE2025

A luminous and hot infrared through X-ray transient at a 5 kpc offset from a dwarf galaxy

Jean J. Somalwar, Vikram Ravi, Raffaella Margutti +20

We are searching for hot, constant-color, offset optical flares in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) data stream that are from any galaxy in public imaging data from th…

astro-ph.CO2025

A hydrodynamical simulations-based model that connects the FRB DM--redshift relation to suppression of the matter power spectrum via feedback

Kritti Sharma, Elisabeth Krause, Vikram Ravi +3

Understanding the impact of baryonic feedback on the small-scale (Mpc) matter power spectrum is a key astrophysical challenge, and essential for interpreti…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Evidence for a hot galactic halo around the Andromeda Galaxy using fast radio bursts along two sightlines

Reshma Anna-Thomas, Casey J. Law, Eric W. Koch +17

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients that serve as unique probes of ionized extragalactic matter. We report the discovery and localization of two FRBs…

astro-ph.HE2024

Preferential Occurrence of Fast Radio Bursts in Massive Star-Forming Galaxies

Kritti Sharma, Vikram Ravi, Liam Connor +24

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration events detected from beyond the Milky Way. FRB emission characteristics favor highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars, as th…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

A gas-rich cosmic web revealed by the partitioning of the missing baryons

Liam Connor, Vikram Ravi, Kritti Sharma +17

Approximately half of the Universe's dark matter resides in collapsed halos; significantly less than half of the baryonic matter (protons and neutrons) remains confined to halos. A…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

A Heavily Scattered Fast Radio Burst Is Viewed Through Multiple Galaxy Halos

Jakob T. Faber, Vikram Ravi, Stella Koch Ocker +16

We present a multi-wavelength study of the apparently non-repeating, heavily scattered fast radio burst, FRB 20221219A, detected by the Deep Synoptic Array 110 (DSA-110). The burst…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Searching for Magnetar Binaries Disrupted by Core-Collapse Supernovae

Myles B. Sherman, Vikram Ravi, Kareem El-Badry +5

Core-collapse Supernovae (CCSNe) are considered the primary magnetar formation channel, with 15 magnetars associated with supernova remnants (SNRs). A large fraction of these shoul…

astro-ph.HE2023

Characterizing the Ordinary Broad-lined Type Ic SN 2023pel from the Energetic GRB 230812B

Gokul P. Srinivasaragavan, Vishwajeet Swain, Brendan M. O'Connor +39

We report observations of the optical counterpart of the long gamma-ray burst (LGRB) GRB 230812B, and its associated supernova (SN) SN 2023pel. The proximity () and high…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Deep Synoptic Array Science: Implications of Faraday Rotation Measures of Localized Fast Radio Bursts

Myles B. Sherman, Liam Connor, Vikram Ravi +20

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer the prospect of directly measuring extragalactic magnetic fields. We present an analysis of the RMs of ten as yet…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 30 cited

Deep Synoptic Array Science: Polarimetry of 25 New Fast Radio Bursts Provides Insights into their Origins

Myles B. Sherman, Liam Connor, Vikram Ravi +20

We report on a full-polarization analysis of the first 25 as yet non-repeating FRBs detected at 1.4 GHz by the 110-antenna Deep Synoptic Array (DSA-110) during commissioning observ…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Deep Synoptic Array Science: First FRB and Host Galaxy Catalog

C. J. Law, K. Sharma, V. Ravi +19

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a powerful and mysterious new class of transient that are luminous enough to be detected at cosmological distances. By associating FRBs to host galaxie…