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Review of the Gravitomagnetic Clock Effect

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-10-29 v6 Space Physics

Abstract

The general relativistic gravitomagnetic clock effect, in its simplest form, consists of the non-vanishing difference in the orbital periods of two counter-orbiting objects moving in opposite directions along circular orbits lying in the equatorial plane of a central rotating source. We briefly review both the theoretical and observational aspects of such an intriguing consequence of Einstein's theory of gravitation.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13118,
  title  = {Review of the Gravitomagnetic Clock Effect},
  author = {Lorenzo Iorio and Bahram Mashhoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13118},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Latex2e, 33 pages, no figures, no tables, 132 references. Typo in Eq.(38) corrected, references added