A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model

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作者
Ciufolini, Ignazio [1 ,2 ]
Paolozzi, Antonio [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Pavlis, Erricos C. [5 ]
Koenig, Rolf [6 ]
Ries, John [7 ]
Gurzadyan, Vahe [8 ,9 ]
Matzner, Richard [10 ]
Penrose, Roger [11 ]
Sindoni, Giampiero [12 ]
Paris, Claudio [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Khachatryan, Harutyun [8 ,9 ]
Mirzoyan, Sergey [8 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Salento, Dipartimento Ingn Innovaz, Lecce, Italy
[2] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Scuola Ingn Aerosp, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[3] Museo Fis, Rome, Italy
[4] Ctr Studi & Ric Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy
[5] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Joint Ctr Earth Syst Technol JCET, Baltimore, MD 21228 USA
[6] GFZ German Res Ctr Geosci, Helmholtz Ctr Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
[7] Univ Texas Austin, Ctr Space Res, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[8] Alikhanian Natl Lab, Ctr Cosmol & Astrophys, Yerevan, Armenia
[9] Yerevan State Univ, Yerevan 375049, Armenia
[10] Univ Texas Austin, Ctr Theory, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[11] Univ Oxford, Math Inst, Oxford, England
[12] Univ Roma La Sapienza, DIAEE, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2016年 / 76卷 / 03期
关键词
GRAVITOMAGNETIC FIELD; SUPERNOVAE;
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10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3961-8
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We present a test of general relativity, the measurement of the Earth's dragging of inertial frames. Our result is obtained using about 3.5 years oflaser-ranged observations of the LARES, LAGEOS, and LAGEOS 2 laser-ranged satellites together with the Earth gravity field model GGMO5S produced by the space geodesy mission GRACE. We measure mu = (0.994 +/- 0.002) +/- 0.05, where is the Earth's dragging of inertial frames normalized to its general relativity value, 0.002 is the 1-sigma formal error and 0.05 is our preliminary estimate of systematic error mainly due to the uncertainties in the Earth gravity model GGMO5S. Our result is in agreement with the prediction of general relativity.
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