Modeling the flyby anomalies with dark matter scattering
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2015-05-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Space Physics
Abstract
We continue our exploration of whether the flyby anomalies can be explained by scattering of spacecraft nucleons from dark matter gravitationally bound to the earth. We formulate and analyze a simple model in which inelastic and elastic scatterers populate shells generated by the precession of circular orbits with normals tilted with respect to the earth's axis. Good fits to the data published by Anderson et al. are obtained.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.2414,
title = {Modeling the flyby anomalies with dark matter scattering},
author = {Stephen L. Adler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2414},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Latex, 20 pages; revised version has moved derivations to Appendices and gives further numerical results in Sec. III and in added Tables VI and VII