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Astrophysics > High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Title: Constraint on Lorentz invariance violation from Vela pulsar

Abstract: The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S) Collaboration reported the discovery of a novel radiation component from the Vela pulsar by their Cherenkov telescopes. It is of great importance that gamma rays with energies of at least 20~TeV are recorded unexpectedly. The H.E.S.S Collaboration argued that such results may challenge the state-of-the-art models for the high-energy emission of pulsars. We point out in this work that these results also provide a unique opportunity to constrain certain Lorentz invariance violation parameters, leading to the realization of studying Lorentz invariance violation by using gamma-ray pulsars. The Lorentz invariance violation scale is constrained at the level of $E_{\mathrm{LV,}1}> 1.66\times 10^{17} \rm GeV$ for the linear scenario, and $E_{\mathrm{LV,}2}>3.53\times 10^{10} \rm GeV$ for the quadratic scenario. We anticipate that digging into the detailed features of the data of the Vela pulsar and analyzing potentially more very-high-energy photon data from pulsars in the future would improve the constraints on Lorentz invariance violation.
Comments: 3 pages, no figure
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Journal reference: Europhys.Lett. 145 (2024) 69001
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/ad2ff7
Cite as: arXiv:2310.06052 [astro-ph.HE]
  (or arXiv:2310.06052v2 [astro-ph.HE] for this version)

Submission history

From: Bo-Qiang Ma [view email]
[v1] Mon, 9 Oct 2023 18:04:23 GMT (55kb)
[v2] Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:09:55 GMT (57kb)

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