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Strong lensing in multimessenger astronomy as a test of the equivalence principle

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Standard Shapiro delay-based test of the equivalence principle, which are grounded on the measurement of two arrival times from a unique source but from messengers with different properties, cannot produce a reliable quantitative test of the Einstein equivalence principle. Essentially because they are based on the estimation for different messengers of the one-way propagation time between the emission and the observation that is not an observable per se. As a consequence, such tests are extremely model dependent, at best. In what follows, I argue that the differential arrival times for strongly lensed multimessengers can be used to define a new test of the Einstein equivalence principle that is both well-defined from a relativistic point of view and model independent---because it is entirely based on actual observables.

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hal-02423734 , version 1 (25-12-2019)

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Olivier Minazzoli. Strong lensing in multimessenger astronomy as a test of the equivalence principle. 2019. ⟨hal-02423734⟩
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