Equation 15 · Part 1 · A Neutron Star Is a Redshift Standard
Symbol z_s
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…left over to test the physics of the redshift itself, because any discrepancy could always be waved away as an equation-of-state uncertainty rather than a genuine anomaly. NICER breaks that circularity by supplying from a channel that never touches a transition energy. Once the redshift is known first and independently, a credibly identified surface line stops being a way to weigh the star and becomes a way to test whether matter actually falls the way general relativity says it should.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [13] MICROSCOPE Mission: Final Results of the Test of the Equivalence Principle ↗
- [11] Equivalence Principle Violations and Couplings of a Light Dilaton ↗
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