Strongly lensed repeating fast radio bursts as precision probes of the universe
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Zheng-Xiang Li; He Gao; Xu-Heng Ding; Guo-Jian Wang; Bing Zhang
- Source
- Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
- Subject
- Science
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
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.