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Analysis of the radio tracking data from the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft at distances between about 20 - 70 AU from the Sun has consistently indicated the presence of an unmodeled, small, constant, Doppler blue shift drift of order 6 \times…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Martin Nieto , John D. Anderson

The expansion of the universe causes spacetime curvature, distinguishing between distances measured along and transverse to the line of sight. The ratio of these distances, e.g. the cosmic shear distortion of a sphere defined by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric V. Linder

When photons from distant galaxies and stars pass through our neighboring environment, the wavelengths of the photons would be shifted by our local gravitational potential. This local gravitational redshift effect can potentially have an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Haoting Xu , Zhiqi Huang , Na Zhang , Yundong Jiang

The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft had exceptional deep-space navigational capabilities. The accuracies of their orbit reconstruction were limited, however, by a small, anomalous, Doppler frequency drift that can be interpreted as an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-05 Michael Martin Nieto , Slava G. Turyshev , John D. Anderson

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

Measurements of the polarization angle and orientation of cosmological radio sources may be used to search for unusual effects in the propagation of light through the universe. Recently, Nodland and Ralston (astro-ph/9704196) have claimed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sean M. Carroll , George B. Field

A previous paper [1] introduced a quantum-mechanical theory of gravity, and showed it agrees with the standard experimental tests of general relativity. Doppler tracking signals returned by the Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes offer an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris Krogh

Considering plane gravitational waves propagating through flat spacetime, it is shown that curvatures experienced both in the starting point and during their arrival at the earth can cause a considerable shift in the frequencies as measured…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Claudio M. G. de Sousa

Peculiar velocities change the expansion rate of any observer moving relative to the smooth Hubble flow. As a result, observers in a galaxy like our Milky Way can experience accelerated expansion within a globally decelerating universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Christos G. Tsagas

According to the socalled "quasi-metric" framework developed elsewhere, the cosmic expansion applies directly to gravitationally bound systems. This prediction has a number of observable consequences, none of which are in conflict with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dag Østvang

We propose here an explanation of the Pioneer anomaly which is not in conflict with the cartography of the solar system. In our model, the spaceship does not suffer any extra acceleration but follows the trajectory predicted by standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-03 Antonio F. Ranada , Alfredo Tiemblo

Cosmological observations usually map our present-day past light cone. However, it is also possible to compare different past light cones. This is the concept behind the redshift drift, a model-independent probe of fundamental cosmology. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 C. S. Alves , A. C. O. Leite , C. J. A. P. Martins , J. G. B. Matos , T. A. Silva

The variation of the expansion rate of the Universe with time produces an evolution in the cosmological redshift of distant sources (for example quasar Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption lines), that might be directly observed by future ultra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Balbi , C. Quercellini

The radio-metric Doppler tracking data from the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft, from between 20-70 AU, yields an unambiguous and independently confirmed anomalous blue shift drift of a_t = (2.92 \pm 0.44)\times 10^{-18} s/s^2. It can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-25 Michael Martin Nieto , Slava G. Turyshev , John D. Anderson

We show that astrophysical gravitational waves can undergo an anomalous modulation when propagating through cosmic gauge field dark energy. A sufficiently strong effect, dependent on the gauge field energy density, would appear as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-17 R. R. Caldwell , C. Devulder

The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft yielded the most precise navigation in deep space to date. However, while at heliocentric distance of $\sim$ 20--70 AU, the accuracies of their orbit reconstructions were limited by a small, anomalous,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Slava G. Turyshev , Michael Martin Nieto , John D. Anderson

In prior work, conducted since 2017, two celestial pointing directions have been observed to be associated with the measurement of anomalous high counts of narrow bandwidth, short duration, polarized radio frequency pulse pairs. The prior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 William J. Crilly

Extragalactic proper motions can reveal a variety of cosmological and local phenomena over a range of angular scales. These include observer-induced proper motions, such as the secular aberration drift caused by the solar acceleration about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Jeremy Darling , Alexandra Truebenbach , Jennie Paine

Recently we reported that radio Doppler data generated by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) from the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft indicate an apparent anomalous, constant, spacecraft acceleration with a magnitude $\sim 8.5\times 10^{-8}$ cm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Slava G. Turyshev , John D. Anderson , Philip A. Laing , Eunice L. Lau , Anthony S. Liu , Michael Martin Nieto

Applying Newtonian dynamics in five dimensions rather than four, to a universe that is closed, isotropic and expanding,suggests that under certain circumstances an additional and previously unidentified acceleration, a_A, can arise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-12 M. B. Gerrard , T. J. Sumner