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Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) can be tested by the time delay between photons with different energies passing through a gravitational field. As one of the most energetic explosions in the Universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-11 Yu Sang , Hai-Nan Lin , Zhe Chang

Aims: Recently, cosmological fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been used to provide the most stringent limit up to date on Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP). We study how to further test EEP with FRBs. Methods: Future systematic radio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-19 Shuang-Nan Zhang

Einstein's General Relativity (GR) is the basis of modern astronomy and astrophysics. Testing the validity of basic assumptions of GR is important. In this work, we test a possible violation of the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), i.e.,…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are astronomical transients with millisecond timescales occurring at cosmological distances. The observed time lag between different energies of each FRB is well described by the inverse-square law of the observed…

Fast Radio Bursts have recently been used to place limits on Einstein's Equivalence Principle via observations of time delays between photons of different radio frequencies by \citet{wei15}. These limits on differential post-Newtonian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Steven J Tingay , David L Kaplan

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are astrophysical transients of still debated origin. So far several hundred events have been detected, mostly at extragalactic distances, and this number is expected to grow significantly over the next years. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Lilow

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) can be probed with astrophysical sources emitting simultaneously different types of neutral particles, or particles with varying energies, by testing their time of flight through the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short astrophysical transients of extragalactic origin. Their burst signal is dispersed by the free electrons in the large-scale-structure (LSS), leading to delayed arrival times at different frequencies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Robert Reischke , Steffen Hagstotz

The Einstein's equivalence principle can be tested by using parameterized post-Newtonian parameters, of which the parameter $\gamma$ has been constrained by comparing the arrival times of photons with different energies. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Chao Yang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yue-Yang Zhang , Bin Liao , Wei-Hua Lei

The observed time delays between different energy bands from TeV blazars provide a new interesting way of testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). If the whole time delay is assumed to be dominated by the gravitational field of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Jun-Jie Wei , Jie-Shuang Wang , He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu

Cosmic transients, such as gamma-ray bursts and fast radio bursts, have been used to constrain the Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP) through the parametrized-post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism. In this approach, the time delay of photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-12 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo G. Landim

Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) states that any freely falling, uncharged test particle follows the same identical trajectory independent of its internal structure and composition. Since the polarization of a photon is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-05 Xue-Feng Wu , Jun-Jie Wei , Mi-Xiang Lan , He Gao , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

An interesting test of Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) relies on the observed lag in arrival times of photons emitted from extragalactic transient sources. Attributing the lag between photons of different energies to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Adi Nusser

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) carries a pivotal role in understanding theory of gravity and spacetime. It guarantees the gravity to be understood as geometric phenomenon. Considering gravitational coupling of matter in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 ChengGang Qin , YuJie Tan , ChengGang Shao

The Einstein Equivalence Principle~(EEP) can be verified by the measurement of the spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The existence of energy-dependency in the cosmological redshift effect means the EEP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Shun Arai , Daisuke Nitta , Hiroyuki Tashiro

The Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) is one of the foundational assumptions of general relativity and some other gravity theories. In the theory of parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN), the difference between the PPN parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 H. Yu , S. Q. Xi , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short duration ($\sim$millisecond) radio transients with cosmological origin. The simple sharp features of the FRB signal have been utilized to probe two fundamental laws of physics, namey, testing Einstein's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Nan Xing , He Gao , Junjie Wei , Zhengxiang Li , Weiyang Wang , Bing Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros

Comparing the parameterized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ values for different types of particles, or the same type of particles with different energies is an important method to test the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). Assuming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-12 Zhi-Xing Luo , Bo Zhang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Einstein's weak equivalence principle (EEP) can be tested through the arrival time delay between photons with different frequencies. Assuming that the arrival time delay is solely caused by the gravitational potential of the Milky Way, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel method to test the Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP) using (simultaneous) multi-wavelength radio observations of polarized blazars. We analyze simultaneous multi-wavelength polarization observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Shuang-Xi Yi , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Xuan Yang , Bin Liao , Shao-Wen Wei
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