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Note on the perihelion/periastron advance due to cosmological constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-01-01 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We will comment on the perihelion/periastron advance of celestial bodies due to the cosmological constant Λ\Lambda. It is well known that the cosmological constant Λ\Lambda causes the perihelion/periastron shift; however, there seems to still exist a discrepancy among the various derived precession formulae. We will point out that the expression ΔωΛ=(πc2Λa3/(GM))1e2\Delta \omega_{\Lambda} = (\pi c^2 \Lambda a^3/(GM))\sqrt{1 - e^2} is the general formula for any orbital eccentricity ee and the expression ΔωΛ=(πc2Λa3/(GM))(1e2)3\Delta \omega_{\Lambda} = (\pi c^2 \Lambda a^3/(GM))(1 - e^2)^3 comes from the nearly circular (e1e \ll 1) approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1212.6289,
  title  = {Note on the perihelion/periastron advance due to cosmological constant},
  author = {Hideyoshi Arakida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.6289},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in International Journal of Theoretical Physics