Inspecting absorption in the spectra of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources for insight into Lorentz invariance violation

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2008-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/0810.1318v2

Phys.Rev.D78:124010,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Published in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.124010

We examine what the absorbed spectra of extra-galactic TeV gamma-ray sources, such as blazars, would look like in the presence of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). Pair-production with the extra-galactic background light modifies the observed spectra of such sources, and we show that a violation of Lorentz invariance would generically have a dramatic effect on this absorption feature. Inspecting this effect, an experimental task likely practical in the near future, can provide unique insight on the possibility of LIV.

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