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Cosmology with kSZ: breaking the optical depth degeneracy with Fast Radio Bursts

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arxiv 1901.02418 v2 pith:6H6E6KV3 submitted 2019-01-08 astro-ph.CO

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The small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) is dominated by anisotropies from the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect, and upcoming experiments will measure it very precisely, but the optical depth degeneracy limits the cosmological information that can be extracted. At the same time, fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an exciting new frontier for astrophysics, but their usefulness as cosmological probes is currently unclear. We show that FRBs are uniquely suited for breaking the kSZ optical depth degeneracy. This opens up new possibilities for constraining cosmology with the kSZ effect, and new cosmological applications for FRBs.

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