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Prospects for Constraining the Yukawa Gravity with Pulsars around Sagittarius A*

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2022-11-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The discovery of radio pulsars (PSRs) around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in our Galactic Center (GC), Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), will have significant implications for tests of gravity. In this paper, we predict restrictions on the parameters of the Yukawa gravity by timing a pulsar around Sgr A* with a variety of orbital parameters. Based on a realistic timing accuracy of the times of arrival (TOAs), σTOA=100μs\sigma_{\rm TOA}=100\,\mu{\rm s}, and using a number of 960 TOAs in a 20-yr observation, our numerical simulations show that the PSR-SMBH system will improve current tests of the Yukawa gravity when the range of the Yukawa interaction varies between 10110^{1}-104AU10^{4}\,{\rm AU}, and it can limit the graviton mass to be mg1024eV/c2m_g \lesssim 10^{-24}\,{\rm eV}/c^2.

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@article{arxiv.2210.16130,
  title  = {Prospects for Constraining the Yukawa Gravity with Pulsars around Sagittarius A*},
  author = {Yiming Dong and Lijing Shao and Zexin Hu and Xueli Miao and Ziming Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16130},
  year   = {2022}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures; accepted by JCAP