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A Supermassive Lens on the Constants of Nature

• imglorp 6y ago
  > A measurement of the difference between distinct absorption lines (with different sensitivity to the fine structure constant) from a star leads to a direct estimate of a variation of the fine structure constant between the star’s location and Earth. Using spectroscopic measurements of 5 stars, we obtain a constraint on the relative variation of the fine structure constant below 10^−5. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5185m01m https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5185m01m