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arXiv 1008.3907astro-ph.COgr-qchep-phhep-thnucl-thphysics.atom-ph
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精细结构常数空间变化的指示

Indications of a spatial variation of the fine structure constant

J. K. Webb, J. A. King, M. T. Murphy, V. V. Flambaum, R. F. Carswell, M. B. Bainbridge

摘要:

我们以前报告凯克望远镜的观测表明,在高红移的精细结构常数,α值较小。新的甚大望远镜(VLT)数据,探测宇宙中不同的方向,显示了一个相反的演变; α在高红移时增加。虽然这种模式可能是由于尚未发现的系统效应,但根据目前所了解的系统学,组合数据集符合空间偶极子,在4.2西格玛水平上显着,在方向赤经17.5 +/- 0.9小时,赤经-58 +/- 9度。独立的VLT和凯克样品给出一致的偶极方向和振幅,高和低红移样品。使用两台望远镜重复的观测结果进行系统分类研究,发现迄今为止还没有一台望远镜能模拟这一结果。

英文摘要:

We previously reported Keck telescope observations suggesting a smaller value of the fine structure constant, alpha, at high redshift. New Very Large Telescope (VLT) data, probing a different direction in the universe, shows an inverse evolution; alpha increases at high redshift. Although the pattern could be due to as yet undetected systematic effects, with the systematics as presently understood the combined dataset fits a spatial dipole, significant at the 4.2-sigma level, in the direction right ascension 17.5 +/- 0.9 hours, declination -58 +/- 9 degrees. The independent VLT and Keck samples give consistent dipole directions and amplitudes, as do high and low redshift samples. A search for systematics, using observations duplicated at both telescopes, reveals none so far which emulate this result.

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