The Science, Technology and Mission Design for the Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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16 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables. To appear in proceedings of the "2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference," Big Sky, MT, March 4-11, 200

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The Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity (LATOR) is a Michelson-Morley-type experiment designed to test the Einstein's general theory of relativity in the most intense gravitational environment available in the solar system -- the close proximity to the Sun. By using independent time-series of highly accurate measurements of the Shapiro time-delay (laser ranging accurate to 1 cm) and interferometric astrometry (accurate to 0.1 picoradian), LATOR will measure gravitational deflection of light by the solar gravity with accuracy of 1 part in a billion, a factor ~30,000 better than currently available. LATOR will perform series of highly-accurate tests of gravitation and cosmology in its search for cosmological remnants of scalar field in the solar system. We present science, technology and mission design for the LATOR mission.

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