GRB 051221A and Tests of Lorentz Symmetry

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2006-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601556v1

JCAP 0605 (2006) 017

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 2 figures

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Various approaches to quantum gravity suggest the possibility of violation of Lorentz symmetry at very high energies. In these cases we expect a modification at low energies of the dispersion relation of photons that contains extra powers of the momentum suppressed by a high energy scale. These terms break boost invariance and can be tested even at relatively low energies. We use the light curves of the very bright short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 051221A and compare the arrival times of photons at different energies with the expected time delay due to a modified dispersion relation. As no time delay was observed, we set a lower bound of 0.0066 E_{pl} \sim 0.66 10^{17} GeV on the scale of Lorentz invariance violation.

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