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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.

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@article{arxiv.0912.4038,
  title  = {Radio Tests of GR},
  author = {E. Fomalont and S. Kopeikin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4038},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages: IAU240

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