Interplanetary Measures Can Not Bound the Cosmological Constant
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The effect of a cosmological constant on the precession of the line of apsides is O(\Lambda c^2 r^3/GM) which is 3(H_\circ P)^2/8\pi^2 \approx 10^{-23} for a vacuum-dominated Universe with Hubble constant H_\circ = 65 km/sec/Mpc and for the orbital period P = 88 days of Mercury. This is unmeasurably small, so planetary perturbations cannot be used to limit the cosmological constant, contrary to the suggestion by Cardona & Tejeiro (1998).
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9805292,
title = {Interplanetary Measures Can Not Bound the Cosmological Constant},
author = {Edward L. Wright},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9805292},
year = {2007}
}
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