Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-03-23
Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 4301-4309
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
LaTex2e, 14 pages, no figures, 2 tables. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/19/16/306
One of the most famous classical tests of General Relativity is the gravitoelectric secular advance of the pericenter of a test body in the gravitational field of a central mass. In this paper we explore the possibility of performing a measurement of the gravitoelectric pericenter advance in the gravitational field of the Earth by analyzing the laser-ranged data to some existing, or proposed, laser-ranged geodetic satellites. At the present level of knowledge of various error sources, the relative precision obtainable with the data from LAGEOS and LAGEOS II, suitably combined, is of the order of $10^{\rm -3}$. Nevertheless, these accuracies could sensibly be improved in the near future when the new data on the terrestrial gravitational field from the CHAMP and GRACE missions will be available. The use of the perigee of LARES (LAser RElativity Satellite), in the context of a suitable combination of orbital residuals including also LAGEOS II, should further raise the precision of the measurement. As a secondary outcome of the proposed experiment, with the so obtained value of $\ppn$ and with $\et=4\beta-\gamma-3$ from Lunar Laser Ranging it could be possible to obtain an estimate of the PPN parameters $\gamma$ and $\beta$ at the $10^{-2}-10^{-3}$ level.
Ciufolini Ignazio
Iorio Lorenzo
Pavlis Erricos C.
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