Recent Improvements in Testing General Relativity with Satellite Laser Ranging
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v3 Astrophysics
Geophysics
Space Physics
Abstract
In this work some aspects of the detection of certain general relativistic effects in the weak gravitational field of the Earth via laser-ranged data to some existing or proposed geodetic satellites are examined. The focus is on the Lense-Thirring drag of the orbit of a test body, the gravitomagnetic clock effect and the gravitoelectric perigee shift. The impact of some sources of systematic errors is investigated. An experiment whose goal is the measurement of the PPN parameters beta and gamma in the terrestrial field with LAGEOS satellites at a level of 10^(-3)is presented. A modified version of the proposed LARES mission is examined.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0111086,
title = {Recent Improvements in Testing General Relativity with Satellite Laser Ranging},
author = {Lorenzo Iorio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0111086},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
71 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento