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New limits on the photon mass with radio pulsars in the Magellanic clouds

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作者Wei, Jun-Jie1,2; Zhang, Er-Kang1,3; Zhang, Song-Bo1,4; Wu, Xue-Feng1,5,6
刊名RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
出版日期2017-02-01
卷号17期号:2页码:5
关键词pulsars: general Magellanic Clouds astroparticle physics
ISSN号1674-4527
DOI10.1088/1674-4527/17/2/13
英文摘要

A conservative constraint on the rest mass of the photon can be estimated under the assumption that the frequency dependence of dispersion from astronomical sources is mainly contributed by the nonzero photon mass effect. Photon mass limits have been set earlier through the optical emissions of the Crab Nebula pulsar, but we demonstrate that these limits can be significantly improved with the dispersion measure (DM) measurements of radio pulsars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The combination of DM measurements of pulsars and distances of the Magellanic Clouds provides a strict upper limit on the photon mass as low as m(gamma) <= 2.0 x 10(-45) g, which is at least four orders of magnitude smaller than the constraint from the Crab Nebula pulsar. Although our limit is not as tight as the current best result (similar to 10(-47) g) from a fast radio burst (FRB 150418) at a cosmological distance, the cosmological origin of FRB 150418 remains under debate; and our limit can reach the same high precision of FRB 150418 when it has an extragalactic origin (similar to 10(-45) g).

WOS关键词LIGHT ; VELOCITY ; BURSTS
WOS研究方向Astronomy & Astrophysics
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000397209100003
出版者NATL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES, CHIN ACAD SCIENCES
源URL[http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/23243]  
专题中国科学院紫金山天文台
通讯作者Wei, Jun-Jie
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
2.Guangxi Key Lab Relativist Astrophys, Nanning 530004, Peoples R China
3.Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
5.Nanjing Univ, Purple Mt Observ, Joint Ctr Particle Nucl Phys & Cosmol, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
6.Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Astron & Space Sci, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
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Wei, Jun-Jie,Zhang, Er-Kang,Zhang, Song-Bo,et al. New limits on the photon mass with radio pulsars in the Magellanic clouds[J]. RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,2017,17(2):5.
APA Wei, Jun-Jie,Zhang, Er-Kang,Zhang, Song-Bo,&Wu, Xue-Feng.(2017).New limits on the photon mass with radio pulsars in the Magellanic clouds.RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,17(2),5.
MLA Wei, Jun-Jie,et al."New limits on the photon mass with radio pulsars in the Magellanic clouds".RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 17.2(2017):5.

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