Constraining the mass of the photon with gamma-ray bursts
Constraining the mass of the photon with gamma-ray bursts
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用伽马射线暴限制光子的质量
DOI:
10.1016/j.jheap.2016.07.001
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发表时间:
2016-07
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Xue-Feng Wu
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作者:
Bo Zhang;Ya-Ting Chai;Yuan-Chuan Zou;Xue-Feng Wu
One of the cornerstones of modern physics is Einstein's special relativity, with its constant speed of light and zero photon mass assumptions. Constraint on the rest mass m γ of photons is a fundamental way to test Einstein's theory, as well as other essential electromagnetic and particle theories. Since non-zero photon mass can give rise to frequency-(or energy-) dependent dispersions, measuring the time delay of photons with different frequencies emitted from explosive astrophysical events is an important and model-independent method to put such a constraint. The cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), with short time scales, high redshifts as well as broadband prompt and afterglow emissions, provide an ideal testbed for m γ constraints. In this paper we calculate the upper limits of the photon mass with GRB early time radio afterglow observations as well as multi-band radio peaks, thus improve the results of Schaefer (1999) by nearly half an order of magnitude.
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DOI:
10.3847/2041-8205/821/2/l22
发表时间:
2016-02
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
影响因子:
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作者:
P. G. Williams;E. Berger
通讯作者:
P. G. Williams;E. Berger
影响因子:
8.6
作者:
B. Schaefer
通讯作者:
B. Schaefer
影响因子:
2.2
作者:
D. Ryutov
通讯作者:
D. Ryutov
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
A. Soderberg;S. Kulkarni;Edo Berger;D. Fox;Masao Sako;D. Frail;A. Gal-yam;D. Moon;S. Cenko;S. Yost;M. M. Phillips-M.;S. E. Persson;W. Freedman;P. Wyatt;R. Jayawardhana;D. Paulson
通讯作者:
A. Soderberg;S. Kulkarni;Edo Berger;D. Fox;Masao Sako;D. Frail;A. Gal-yam;D. Moon;S. Cenko;S. Yost;M. M. Phillips-M.;S. E. Persson;W. Freedman;P. Wyatt;R. Jayawardhana;D. Paulson
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Berger, E;Kulkarni, SR;Price, PA
通讯作者:
Price, PA