Tight Constraint on Photon Mass from Pulsar Spindown

Yang, YP; Zhang, B

Yang, YP (reprint author), Peking Univ, Kavli Inst Astron & Astrophys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China.

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 2017; 842 (1):

Abstract

Pulsars are magnetized rotating compact objects. They spin down due to magnetic dipole radiation and wind emission. If a photon has nonzero mass, the ......

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