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Further evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from Keck/HIRES QSO absorption spectra
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We have previously presented evidence for a varying fine-structure constant, α, in two independent samples of Keck/HIRES quasi-stellar object (QSO) absorption spectra. Here we present a detailed many-multiplet analysis of a third Keck/HIRES sample containing 78 absorption systems. We also re-analyse the previous samples, providing a total of 128 absorption systems over the redshift range 0.2 < zabs < 3.7. The results, with raw statistical errors, indicate a smaller weighted mean α in the absorption clouds: Δα/α= (−0.574 ± 0.102) × 10−5. All three samples separately yield consistent and significant values of Δα/α. The analyses of low-z (i.e. zabs < 1.8) and high-z systems rely on different ions and transitions with very different dependences on α, yet they also give consistent results. We identify an additional source of random error in 22 high-z systems characterized by transitions with a large dynamic range in apparent optical depth. Increasing the statistical errors on Δα/α for these systems gives our fiducial result, a weighted mean Δα/α= (−0.543 ± 0.116) × 10−5, representing 4.7σ evidence for a varying α. Assuming that Δα/α= 0 at zabs= 0, the data marginally prefer a linear increase in α with time rather than a constant offset from the laboratory value: . The two-point correlation function for α is consistent with zero over 0.2–13 Gpc comoving scales and the angular distribution of Δα/α shows no significant dipolar anisotropy. We therefore have no evidence for spatial variations in Δα/α. We extend our previous searches for possible systematic errors, giving detailed analyses of potential kinematic effects, line blending, wavelength miscalibration, spectrograph temperature variations, atmospheric dispersion and isotopic/hyperfine structure effects. The latter two are potentially the most significant. However, overall, known systematic errors do not explain the results. Future many-multiplet analyses of independent QSO spectra from different telescopes and spectrographs will provide a now crucial check on our Keck/HIRES results.
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“The claim by (Webb et al. 1999;Murphy et al. 2003;King et al. 2012a) that the Keck/HIRES data indicated that the fine structure constant was smaller in the past relaunched the interest in fundamental constants, both from an experimental and theoretical point of view.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Murphy, M. T., Webb, J. K., & Flambaum, V. V.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Murphy, M. T.
- Webb, J. K.
- Venue
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 345
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 609-638
- ISSN
- 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2966
- OpenAlex
- W2153130534
- Cited by
- 514
- References
- 115
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 24.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology)
- Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation
- California Institute of Technology
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Keywords
- fine-structure constant variation, alpha variation, quasar absorption lines, systematic errors, two-point correlation function
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