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The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) is one of the foundations of the theory of General Relativity and several alternative theories of gravitation predict violations of the EEP. Experimental constraints on this fundamental principle of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-19 P. Delva , A. Hees , S. Bertone , E. Richard , P. Wolf

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show a large value and complex variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs). The binary systems containing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and a neutron star (NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Rui-Nan Li , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Zhifu Gao , F. Y. Wang

The rapid accumulation of observed Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originating from cosmological distances makes it likely that some will be strongly lensed by intervening matter along the line of sight. Detection of lensed FRB repeaters, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Tal Adi , Ely D. Kovetz

The delay in the arrival times between high and low energy photons from cosmic sources can be used to test the violation of the Lorentz invariance (LIV), predicted by some quantum gravity theories, and to constrain its characteristic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 M. G. Bernardini , G. Ghirlanda , S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , J. -L. Atteia , S. Covino , G. Ghisellini , A. Melandri , F. Piron , R. Salvaterra , G. Tagliaferri

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) is a cornerstone of general relativity and predicts the existence of gravitational redshift. We report on new results of measuring this shift with RadioAstron (RA), a space VLBI spacecraft launched…

The Einstein Equivalence Principle has as one of its implications that the non-gravitational laws of physics are those of special relativity in any local freely-falling frame. We consider possible tests of this hypothesis for systems whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 C. Alvarez , R. B. Mann

Theories of gravity that obey the Weak Equivalence Principle have the same Parametrised Post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ for all particles at all energies. The large Shapiro time delays of extragalactic sources allow us to put tight…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-06 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Dexter Bergsdal , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira , Jens Jasche

The Equivalence Principle (EP) is at the heart of General Relativity (GR), tested in many aspects. It is often used to discuss qualitatively the influence of gravity on physical phenomena. But can this be made more precise? We compare clock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-29 Peter C. Aichelburg

We consider the possibility of using measurements of anomalous magnetic moments of elementary particles as a possible test of the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). For the class non-metric theories of gravity described by the \tmu…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Alvarez , R. B. Mann

To date, no framework combining quantum field theory and general relativity and hence unifying all four fundamental interactions, exists. Violations of the Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP), being the foundation of general relativity,…

The Einstein Probe (EP) satellite, dedicated at time-domain high-energy astrophysics and multi-messenger astronomy, was recently launched and successfully put into operation. The wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT, 0.5-4 keV) onboard has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Hao-Xuan Gao , Jin-Jun Geng , Yi-Fang Liang , Hui Sun , Fan Xu , Xue-Feng Wu , Yong-Feng Huang , Zi-Gao Dai , Wei-Min Yuan

The frequency-dependent time delays in fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to constrain the photon mass, if the FRB redshifts are known, but the similarity between the frequency dependences of dispersion due to plasma effects and a photon…

We use the precision measurements of the arrival time differences of the same fast radio burst (FRB) source along multiple sightlines to measure the primordial power spectrum and Non-Gaussianities. The anticipated experiment requires a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Zhiyao Lu , Lian-Tao Wang , Huangyu Xiao

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of highly energetic, mostly extragalactic radio transients lasting for a few milliseconds. While over 600 FRBs have been published so far, their origins are presently unclear, with some theories for…

A scheme of an optical detector is proposed for checking Einsteins equivalence principle (EEP) in a null gravitational redshift experiment and for testing methods for calculating the length of a resonator in a weak variable gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-07 R. A. Daishev , Z. G. Murzakhanov , A. F. Skochilov

If the weak equivalence principle (WEP) is broken, the measured values of the parametrized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ from photons with left- and right-handed circular polarizations should differ slightly, leading to the arrival-time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-27 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Two new fast single radio bursts FRB 180924 and FRB 190523 well localized to massive galaxies have opened a new window to probe and characterize how cosmic baryons are allocated between galaxies, their surroundings and intergalactic medium.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-23 Deng Wang , Zhaozhou Li , Jiajun Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been suggested as an excellent celestial laboratory for testing the zero-mass hypothesis of the photon. In this work, we use the dispersion measure (DM)--redshift measurements of 23 localized FRBs to revisit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Martín López-Corredoira

Sun's gravitation potential at earth varies during a year due to varying Earth-Sun distance. Comparing the results of very accurate measurements of atomic clock transitions performed at different time in the year allows us to study the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 V. A. Dzuba , V. V. Flambaum

Modifications of gravity generated by a multiplicative coupling of a scalar field to the electromagnetic Lagrangian lead to a breaking of Einstein equivalence principle (EEPB) as well as to variations of fundamental constants. In these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-01 R. F. L. Holanda , K. N. N. O. Barros