Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation with Multiwavelength Polarized Astrophysical Sources

被引：8

作者：

Zhou, Qi-Qi ^{[1
]}

Yi, Shuang-Xi ^{[1
]}

Wei, Jun-Jie ^{[2
,3
]}

Wu, Xue-Feng ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Qufu Normal Univ, Sch Phys & Phys Engn, Qufu 273165, Shandong, Peoples R China

[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China

[3] Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Astron & Space Sci, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China

来源：

GALAXIES | 2021年 / 9卷 / 02期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

astroparticle physics; gravitation; polarization; multiwavelength; QUANTUM-GRAVITY; LIMITS; TESTS; CPT; POLARIMETRY; BLAZARS; 3C-66A;

D O I：

10.3390/galaxies9020044

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Possible violations of Lorentz invariance (LIV) can produce vacuum birefringence, which results in a frequency-dependent rotation of the polarization plane of linearly polarized light from distant sources. In this paper, we try to search for a frequency-dependent change of the linear polarization angle arising from vacuum birefringence in the spectropolarimetric data of astrophysical sources. We collect five blazars with multiwavelength polarization measurements in different optical bands (UBVRI). Taking into account the observed polarization angle contributions from both the intrinsic polarization angle and the rotation angle induced by LIV, and assuming that the intrinsic polarization angle is an unknown constant, we obtain new constraints on LIV by directly fitting the multiwavelength polarimetric data of the five blazars. Here, we show that the birefringence parameter eta quantifying the broken degree of Lorentz invariance is limited to be in the range of -9.63x10(-8) < eta < 6.55 x 10(-6) at the 2 sigma confidence level, which is as good as or represents one order of magnitude improvement over the results previously obtained from ultraviolet/optical polarization observations. Much stronger limits can be obtained by future multiwavelength observations in the gamma-ray energy band.

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