Limit on the Cosmological Variation offrom the Inversion Spectrum of Ammonia
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- 15 June 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 98 (24) , 240801
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.98.240801
Abstract
We obtain the limit on the space-time variation of the ratio of the proton mass to the electron mass, , based on comparison of quasar absorption spectra of with CO, and HCN rotational spectra. For the inversion transition in () the relative frequency shift is significantly enhanced: . This enhancement allows one to increase sensitivity to the variation of using spectra for high redshift objects. We use published data on microwave spectra of the object to place the limit at redshift ; this limit is several times better than the limits obtained by different methods and may be significantly improved. Assuming linear time dependence we obtain .
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