High-Precision Measurements of Delta alpha/alpha from QSO Absorption Spectra

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2006-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611803v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pages, 2 figures, Invited contribution to the proceedings of "Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics", Aveiro, Portugal, 11-

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Precise radial velocity measurements (delta v/c ~ 10^{-7}) of FeII lines in damped Ly-alpha systems from very high quality VLT/UVES spectra of quasars HE0515-4414 and Q1101-264 are used to probe cosmological time dependence of the fine structure constant, alpha. It is found that between two redshifts z1 = 1.15 and z2 = 1.84 the value of Delta alpha/alpha changes at the level of a few ppm: (alpha_z2 - alpha_z1)/alpha_0 = 5.43 +/- 2.52 ppm. Variations of alpha can be considered as one of the most reliable method to constrain the dark energy equation of state and improvements on the accuracy of the wavelength calibration of QSO spectra are of great importance.

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