Model-independent constraints on Lorentz invariance violation: implication from updated Gamma-ray burst observations

Abstract

Astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV), due to the high energies and long distances involved. In quantum theory of gravity, one may expect the modification of the dispersion relation between energy and momentum for photons, which can be probed with the time-lag (the arrival time delay between light curves in different energy bands) of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this paper, by using the detailed time-delay measurements of GRB 160625B at different energy bands, as well as 23 time-delay GRBs covering the redshifts range of $z=0.168-2.5$ (which were measured at different energy channels from the light curves), we propose an improved model-independent method (based on the newly-compiled sample of $H(z)$ measurements) to probe the energy-dependent velocity due to the modified dispersion relation for photons. In the framework of a more complex and reasonable theoretical expression to describe the time delays, our results imply that the intrinsic time lags can be better described with more GRBs time delay data. More importantly, through direct fitting of the time-delay measurements of a sample of GRBs, our limit on the LIV energy scale is comparable to that with unknown constant for the intrinsic time lag, much lower than the Planck energy scale in both linear LIV and quadratic LIV cases.

7pages,3figures,Accepted for publication in ApJ

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