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Light speed variation from active galactic nuclei

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-12-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Recent studies on the high-energy photons from gamma-ray bursts~(GRBs) suggested a light speed variation v(E)=c(1E/ELV)v(E)=c(1-E/E_{\mathrm{LV}}) with ELV=3.6×1017E_\mathrm{LV}=3.6\times 10^{17} GeV. We check this speed variation from previous observations on light curves of three active galactic nuclei (AGNs), namely Markarian 421 (Mrk 421), Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) and PKS 2155-304. We show that several phenomena related to the light curves of these AGNs can serve as the supports for the light speed variation determined from GRBs.

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@article{arxiv.2012.06967,
  title  = {Light speed variation from active galactic nuclei},
  author = {Hao Li and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.06967},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 latex pages, 3 figures

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