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Anomalous precession of planets on a Weyl conformastatic solution

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-04-06 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the anomalous planets precession in the nearly-newtonian gravitational regime. This limit is obtained from the application of the slow motion condition to the geodesic equations without altering the geodesic deviation equations. Using a non-standard expression for the perihelion advance from the Weyl conformastatic vacuum solution as a model, we can describe the anomaly in planets precession compared with different observational data from Ephemerides of the Planets and the Moon (EPM2008 and EPM2011) and Planetary and Lunar Ephemeris (INPOP10a). As a result, using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm and calculating the related Chi-squared statistic, we find that the anomaly is statistical irrelevant in accordance with INPOP10a observations. As a complement to this work, we also do an application to the relativistic precession of giant planets using observational data calibrated with the EPM2011.

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@article{arxiv.1606.05263,
  title  = {Anomalous precession of planets on a Weyl conformastatic solution},
  author = {Abraão J. S. Capistrano and Joice A. M. Penagos and Manuel S. Alárcon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05263},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, revised version, Accepted for publication in MNRAS