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Gravitomagnetic effects of a massive and slowly rotating sphere with an equatorial mass current on orbiting test particles

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-05-25 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

Within the framework of linearized Einstein field equations we compute the gravito-magnetic effects on a test particle orbiting a slowly rotating, spherical body with a rotating matter ring fixed to the equatorial plane. Our results show that the effect on the precession of particle orbits is increased by the presence of the ring.

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@article{arxiv.0905.4235,
  title  = {Gravitomagnetic effects of a massive and slowly rotating sphere with an equatorial mass current on orbiting test particles},
  author = {L. Castaneda and F. Fandino and W. Almonacid and E. Suarez and G. Pinzon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.4235},
  year   = {2010}
}

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3 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 261, 2009