Forthcoming Close Angular Approaches of Planets to Radio Sources and Possibilities to Use Them as GR Tests

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2009-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/0907.4026v1

Solar System Research, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 313-318

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

8 pages, 5 tables

Scientific paper

10.1134/S0038094609040054

During close angular approaches of solar system planets to astrometric radio sources, the apparent positions of these sources shift due to relativistic effects and, thus, these events may be used for testing the theory of general relativity; this fact was successfully demonstrated in the experiments on the measurements of radio source position shifts during the approaches of Jupiter carried out in 1988 and 2002. An analysis, performed within the frames of the present work, showed that when a source is observed near a planet's disk edge, i.e., practically in the case of occultation, the current experimental accuracy makes it possible to measure the relativistic effects for all planets. However, radio occultations are fairly rare events. At the same time, only Jupiter and Saturn provide noticeable relativistic effects approaching the radio sources at angular distances of about a few planet radii. Our analysis resulted in the creation of a catalog of forthcoming occultations and approaches of planets to astrometric radio sources for the time period of 2008-2050, which can be used for planning experiments on testing gravity theories and other purposes. For all events included in the catalog, the main relativistic effects are calculated both for ground-based and space (Earth-Moon) interferometer baselines.

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