Radio Tests of GR
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2016-04-26 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
Since VLBI techniques give microarcsecond position accuracy of celestial objects, tests of GR using radio sources as probes of a gravitational field have been made. We present the results from two recent tests using the VLBA: In 2005, the measurement of the classical solar deflection; and in 2002, the measurement of the retarded gravitational deflection associated with Jupiter. The deflection experiment measured PPN-gamma to an accuracy of 0.0003; the Jupiter experiment measured the retarded term to 20% accuracy. The controversy over the interpretation of the retarded term is summarized.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.4038,
title = {Radio Tests of GR},
author = {E. Fomalont and S. Kopeikin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4038},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
4 pages: IAU240