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Pre-burst events of gamma-ray bursts with light speed variation

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-08-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Previous researches on high-energy photon events from gamma-ray bursts~(GRBs) suggest a light speed variation v(E)=c(1E/ELV)v(E)=c(1-E/E_{\mathrm{LV}}) with ELV=3.6×1017 GeVE_{\mathrm{LV}}=3.6\times10^{17}~\mathrm{ GeV}, together with a pre-burst scenario that hight-energy photons come out about 10 seconds earlier than low-energy photons at the GRB source. However, in the Lorentz invariance violating scenario with an energy dependent light speed considered here, high-energy photons travel slower than low-energy photons due to the light speed variation, so that they are usually detected after low-energy photons in observed GRB data. Here we find four high-energy photon events which were observed earlier than low-energy photons from Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope~(FGST), and analysis on these photon events supports the pre-burst scenario of high energy photons from GRBs and the energy dependence of light speed listed above.

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@article{arxiv.2108.05804,
  title  = {Pre-burst events of gamma-ray bursts with light speed variation},
  author = {Jie Zhu and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05804},
  year   = {2021}
}

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7 latex pages,4 figures, final version for publication