Femto-lensing due to a Cosmic String
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2016-06-21 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We consider the femto-lensing due to a cosmic string. If a cosmic string with the deficit angle [femto-arcsec] [rad] exists around the line of sight to a gamma-ray burst, we may observe characteristic interference patterns caused by gravitational lensing in the energy spectrum of the gamma-ray burst. This "femto-lensing" event was first proposed as a tool to probe small mass primordial black holes. In this paper, we propose use of the femto-lensing to probe cosmic strings with extremely small tension. Observability conditions and the event rate are discussed. Differences between the cases of a point mass and a cosmic string are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1209.0903,
title = {Femto-lensing due to a Cosmic String},
author = {Chul-Moon Yoo and Ryo Saito and Yuuiti Sendouda and Keitaro Takahashi and Daisuke Yamauchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0903},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
21 pages, 8 figures