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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 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…

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

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.,…

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

A conservative constraint on the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) can be obtained under the assumption that the observed time delay between correlated particles from astronomical sources is dominated by the gravitational fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Xi-Long Fan , Peter Mészáros , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Current constraints on Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) utilize the observed time delay between correlated particles of astronomical sources. However, the intrinsic time delay due to particle emission time is impossible to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 H. Yu , F. Y. Wang

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

The accuracy of Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP) can be tested with the observed time delays between correlated particles or photons that are emitted from astronomical sources. Assuming as a lower limit that the time delays are caused…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-25 Jun-Jie Wei , He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros

Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), the universality of free fall, is a fundamental component of general relativity and other metric theories of gravity. Its validity can be tested through the post-Newtonian parameter gamma, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Tian-Cong Wang , Aleksandra Piorkowska - Kurpas , Marek Biesiada , He Gao

Violations of both the weak equivalence principle (WEP) and Lorentz invariance can produce vacuum birefringence, which leads to an energy-dependent rotation of the polarization vector of linearly polarized emission from a given…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Weak Equivalent Principle (WEP) can be tested through the parameterized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$, representing the space curvature produced by unit rest mass. The parameter $\gamma$ in turn has been constrained by comparing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Yueyang Zhang , Biping Gong

The observed time delays between photons with different circular polarizations from an astrophysical object provide a new, interesting way of testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). In this paper, we constrain the EEP by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Shuang-Xi Yi , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Jun-Jie Wei , Qi-Qi Zhou

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

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

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

The weak equivalence principle (WEP) is the cornerstone of gravitational theories. At the local scale, WEP has been tested to high accuracy by various experiments. On the intergalactic distance scale, WEP could be tested by comparing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-26 Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han , Gang Wang

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) with rapid variations at cosmological distances are used to place new limits on violations of the gravitational weak equivalence principle (WEP). These limits track intrinsic timing deviations between GRB photons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Matipon Tangmatitham , Robert J. Nemiroff

The coincident detection of a gravitational-wave (GW) event GW170817 with electromagnetic (EM) signals (e.g., a short gamma-ray burst SGRB 170817A or a macronova) from a binary neutron star merger within the nearby galaxy NGC 4933 provides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Jun-Jie Wei , Bin-Bin Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao , Peter Mészáros , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

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
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