Solar system constraints on Rindler acceleration
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2011-07-04 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We discuss the classical tests of general relativity in the presence of Rindler acceleration. Among these tests the perihelion shifts give the tightest constraints and indicate that the Pioneer anomaly cannot be caused by a universal solar system Rindler acceleration. We address potential caveats for massive test-objects. Our tightest bound on Rindler acceleration that comes with no caveats is derived from radar echo delay and yields |a|<3nm/s^2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.0274,
title = {Solar system constraints on Rindler acceleration},
author = {Sante Carloni and Daniel Grumiller and Florian Preis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0274},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
7 pages, v2: minor changes, added references, v3: corrected typos, extended Table 1, corrected bound on measurement of gravitational redshift