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Published August 18, 2014 | Published + Submitted
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Measuring speed of gravitational waves by observations of photons and neutrinos from compact binary mergers and supernovae

Abstract

Detection of gravitational waves (GWs) provides us with an opportunity to test general relativity in strong and dynamical regimes of gravity. One of the tests is checking whether GW propagates with the speed of light or not. This test is crucial because the velocity of GW has not ever been directly measured. Propagation speed of a GW can deviate from the speed of light due to the modification of gravity, graviton mass, and the nontrivial spacetime structure such as extra dimensions and quantum gravity effects. Here we report a simple method to measure the propagation speed of a GW by directly comparing arrival times between GWs and neutrinos from supernovae or photons from short gamma-ray bursts. As a result, we found that the future multimessenger observations of a GW, neutrinos, and photons can test the GW propagation speed with the precision of ∼10^(−16), improving the previous suggestions by 8–10 orders of magnitude. We also propose a novel method that distinguishes the true signal due to the deviation of GW propagation speed from the speed of light and the intrinsic time delay of the emission at a source by looking at the redshift dependence.

Additional Information

© 2014 American Physical Society. Received 3 July 2014; Published 18 August 2014. We thank S. Desai, I. Sawicki, M. Sissa, Y. Suwa, and T. Yokozawa for valuable comments. A. N. and T. N. are supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Grant No. 24103006. Also A. N. is supported by JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad, and T. N. is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant No. 23540305.

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