Severe Limits on Variations of the Speed of Light with Frequency

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1998-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810479v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.82:4964-4966,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, Submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4964

Explosive astrophysical events at high red shift can be used to place severe limits on the fractional variation in the speed of light ($\Delta c/c$), the photon mass ($m_{\gamma}$), and the energy scale of quantum gravity ($E_{QG}$). I find $\Delta c/c < 6.3 \times 10^{-21}$ based on the simultaneous arrival of a flare in GRB 930229 with a rise time of $220 \pm 30 \mu s$ for photons of 30 keV and 200 keV. The limit on $m_{\gamma}$ is $4.2 \times 10^{-44} g$ for GRB 980703 from radio to gamma ray observations. The limit on $E_{QG}$ is $8.3 \times 10^{16}$ GeV for GRB 930131 from 30 keV to 80 MeV photons.

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