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Another look at the Pioneer anomaly

Astrophysics 2007-08-14 v5

Abstract

The often quoted equ. (15) in (Anderson_ea:2002) defines the observed Pioneer anomaly aPa_P such that literal reading suggests \nu_{obs} < \nu_{mod (νobs\nu _{obs} the observed (Doppler) frequency, νmod\nu_{mod} the one expected from a relativistic orbit model of the spacecraft). Contextualized reading shows, however, that (15) is meant the other way round, νobs>νmod\nu_{obs} > \nu_{mod}. Version 1 to 4 of this paper built upon the first reading and led to a correction term for frequency shifts of wrong sign. Thus the proposal therein does not resolve the Pioneer anomaly, although it gives a correction term for frequencies which has the correct absolute value.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0701132,
  title  = {Another look at the Pioneer anomaly},
  author = {Erhard Scholz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0701132},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Correction note, 2 pages

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