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Variation of fundamental constants and white dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2020

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Susana J. Landau*
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Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, Ciudad Universitaria - Pab. I, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina email: slandau@df.uba.ar CONICET, Godoy Cruz 2290, 1425 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Theories that attempt to unify the four fundamental interactions and alternative theories of gravity predict time and/or spatial variation of the fundamental constants of nature. Different versions of these theories predict different behaviours for these variations. As a consequence, experimental and observational bounds are an important tool to check the validity of such proposals. In this paper, we review constraints on the possible variation of the fundamental constants from astronomical observations and geophysical experiments designed to test the constancy of the fundamental constants of nature over different timescales. We also focus on the limits that can be obtained from white dwarfs, which can constrain the variation of the constants with the gravitational potential.

Keywords

quasars: absorption linescosmology: theorycosmic microwave backgroundsupernovae: generalstars: white dwarfs
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 15 , Symposium S357: White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics: Tracers of Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Evolution , October 2019 , pp. 45 - 59
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© International Astronomical Union 2020

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