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FRB 121102 Casts New Light on the Photon Mass

Bonetti, Luca, Ellis, John, Mavromatos, Nikolaos E. et al.

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The photon mass, $m_\gamma$, can in principle be constrained using measurements of the dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs), once the FRB redshifts are known.

The DM of the repeating FRB 121102 is known to $< 1$\%, a host galaxy has now been identified with high confidence,and its redshift, $z$, has now been determined with high accuracy: $z = 0.19273(8)$.
Taking into account the plasma contributions to the DM from the Intergalactic medium (IGM) and the Milky Way, we use the data on FRB 121102 to derive the constraint $m_\gamma \lesssim 2.2 \times 10^{-14}$ eV c$^{-2}$ ($3.9 \times 10^{-50}$ kg).
Since the plasma and photon mass contributions to DMs have different redshift dependences, they could in principle be distinguished by measurements of more FRB redshifts, enabling the sensitivity to $m_\gamma$ to be improved.

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L. de Broglie, “La Mécanique Ondulatoire du Photon. Une Nouvelle Théorie de la Lumière”
1940
Earlier work this paper cites.
B. Lovell, F. L. Whipple and L. H. Solomon, “Relative velocity of light and radio wave in space”,
1964
Earlier work this paper cites.
B. Warner and R. E. Nather, “Wavelength independence of the velocity of light in space”,
1969
Earlier work this paper cites.
E. R. Williams, J. E. Faller and H. A. Hill, “New experimental test of Coulomb’s law: A laboratory upper limit on the photon rest mass”
1971
Earlier work this paper cites.
D. D. Ryutov, “The role of finite photon mass in magnetohydrodynamics of space plasmas”
1997
Earlier work this paper cites.
B. E. Schaefer, “Severe limits on variations of the speed of light with frequency,”
1999
Earlier work this paper cites.
G. Amelino-Camelia, J. R. Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos and S. Sarkar, “Tests of quantum gravity from observations of gamma-ray bursts”,
2000
Earlier work this paper cites.
K. Ioka, “Cosmic dispersion measure from gamma-ray burst afterglows: probing the reionization history and the burst environment”
2003
Earlier work this paper cites.
M. Füllekrug, “Probing the speed of light with radio waves at extremely low radio frequencies”
2004
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. Inoue, “Probing the cosmic reionization history and local environment of gamma-ray bursts through radio dispersion”,
2004
Earlier work this paper cites.