Constraints on the massive graviton dark matter from pulsar timing and precision astrometry
Astrophysics
2009-01-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The effect of a narrow-band isotropic stochastic GW background on pulsar timing and astrometric measurements is studied. Such a background appears in some theories of gravity. We show that the existing millisecond pulsar timing accuracy () strongly constrains possible observational consequences of theory of massive gravity with spontaneous Lorentz braking \cite{dtt:2005}, essentially ruling out significant contribution of massive gravitons to the local dark halo density. The present-day accuracy of astrometrical measurements () sets less stringent constraints on this theory.
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@article{arxiv.0805.1519,
title = {Constraints on the massive graviton dark matter from pulsar timing and precision astrometry},
author = {Maxim Pshirkov and Artem Tuntsov and Konstantin A. Postnov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1519},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure; changes in content, references added, accepted for publication in PRL