γ-ray burst ultraviolet/optical afterglow polarimetry as a probe of quantum gravity

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 376, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1857-1860

  Fan, Yi Zhong ^a,b   Wei, Da Ming ^b,c   Xu, Dong ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Polarization; Radiation mechanisms: non thermal

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; GAMMA RAYS; POLARIZATION; PULSARS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY;

BIREFRINGENCE EFFECTS; DISTANT SOURCE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; LINEARLY POLARIZED EMISSION; OPTICAL AFTERGLOW; POLARIZATION ANGLE; POLARIZATION DATA; RADIATION MECHANISMS: NONTHERMAL; UPPER LIMITS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 34247134995     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11576.x     Document Type: Article

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