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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

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…

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio bursts characterized by millisecond durations, high Galactic latitude positions, and high dispersion measures. Very recently, the cosmological origin of FRB 150418 has been confirmed by \cite{kea16}, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Xue-Feng Wu , Song-Bo Zhang , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

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 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…

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

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) carry fossil information about non-Gaussianity generated during inflation. This primordial signal is most accessible on the largest scales, where the scale-dependent bias correction $\propto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Simthembile Dlamini

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered class of GHz-band, ms-duration, Jy-level-flux astrophysical transients, which origin is still a mystery. Exploring their gamma-ray counterpart is crucial for constraining their origin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 G. Principe , L. Di Venere , M. Negro , N. Di Lalla , N. Omodei , R. Di Tria , M. N. Mazziotta , F. Longo

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses with largely unknown origins, with a subset exhibiting repeating behavior. Magnetars highly magnetized neutron stars and a leading progenitor candidate for FRBs also produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Ellen C. C. Lin , Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto

Constrained measurements of fundamental physical constants using astronomical observational data represent a powerful method for investigating potential new physics. In particular, the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Shi-Yuan Wang , Jun-Qing Xia

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

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