Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 118, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.091101
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- University of Portsmouth
- STFC Consolidated Grant [ST/N000668/1]
- STFC [ST/N000668/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/N000668/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Probing the relative speeds of gravitational waves and light acts as an important test of general relativity and alternative theories of gravity. Measuring the arrival time of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts can be used to measure the relative speeds, but only if the intrinsic time lag between emission of the photons and gravitational waves is well understood. Here we suggest a method that does not make such an assumption, using future strongly lensed GW events and EM counterparts; Biesiada et al. [J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 10 (2014) 080] forecast that 50-100 strongly lensed GW events will be observed each year with the Einstein Telescope. A single strongly lensed GW event would produce robust constraints on c(GW)/c(gamma) at the 10(-7) level, if a high-energy EM counterpart is observed within the field of view of an observing gamma-ray burst monitor.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available