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Femto-lensing due to a Cosmic String

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-06-21 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider the femto-lensing due to a cosmic string. If a cosmic string with the deficit angle Δ100\Delta\sim 100 [femto-arcsec] 1018\sim10^{-18} [rad] exists around the line of sight to a gamma-ray burst, we may observe characteristic interference patterns caused by gravitational lensing in the energy spectrum of the gamma-ray burst. This "femto-lensing" event was first proposed as a tool to probe small mass primordial black holes. In this paper, we propose use of the femto-lensing to probe cosmic strings with extremely small tension. Observability conditions and the event rate are discussed. Differences between the cases of a point mass and a cosmic string are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1209.0903,
  title  = {Femto-lensing due to a Cosmic String},
  author = {Chul-Moon Yoo and Ryo Saito and Yuuiti Sendouda and Keitaro Takahashi and Daisuke Yamauchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0903},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages, 8 figures

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