Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-05-18
Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol.19, no.21, pp. 5473-5480, 2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
LaTeX2e, 1 table, no figures, 8 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/19/21/312
The Lense-Thirring effect is currently being measured by means of a combination of the orbital residuals of the nodes of LAGEOS and LAGEOS II and the perigee of LAGEOS II. The total error is of the order of 20%. The most insidious systematic error is due to the mismodelled even zonal harmonics of the geopotential and amounts to 12.9%, according to EGM96 model. The role and the importance of the LAGEOS--LAGEOS II Lense--Thirring experiment is investigated. Using other suitable combinations with orbital elements of the other existing laser-ranged satellites does not yield significative improvements except for one combination including the nodes of LAGEOS, LAGEOS II and Ajisai and the perigee of LAGEOS II. The related systematic error due to the mismodelled even zonal part of the geopotential reduces to almost 10.7%.
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