A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames

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 of laser-ranged observations of the LARES, LAGEOS, and LAGEOS 2 laser-ranged satellites together with the Earth gravity field model GGM05S produced by the...

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Autores principales: Ciufolini, Ignazio, Paolozzi, Antonio, Pavlis, Erricos C., Koenig, Rolf, Ries, John, Gurzadyan, Vahe, Matzner, Richard, Penrose, Roger, Sindoni, Giampiero, Paris, Claudio, Khachatryan, Harutyun, Mirzoyan, Sergey
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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4946852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3961-8
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author Ciufolini, Ignazio
Paolozzi, Antonio
Pavlis, Erricos C.
Koenig, Rolf
Ries, John
Gurzadyan, Vahe
Matzner, Richard
Penrose, Roger
Sindoni, Giampiero
Paris, Claudio
Khachatryan, Harutyun
Mirzoyan, Sergey
author_facet Ciufolini, Ignazio
Paolozzi, Antonio
Pavlis, Erricos C.
Koenig, Rolf
Ries, John
Gurzadyan, Vahe
Matzner, Richard
Penrose, Roger
Sindoni, Giampiero
Paris, Claudio
Khachatryan, Harutyun
Mirzoyan, Sergey
author_sort Ciufolini, Ignazio
collection PubMed
description 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 of laser-ranged observations of the LARES, LAGEOS, and LAGEOS 2 laser-ranged satellites together with the Earth gravity field model GGM05S produced by the space geodesy mission GRACE. We measure [Formula: see text] , where [Formula: see text] 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 GGM05S. Our result is in agreement with the prediction of general relativity.
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spelling pubmed-49468522016-07-26 A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames Ciufolini, Ignazio Paolozzi, Antonio Pavlis, Erricos C. Koenig, Rolf Ries, John Gurzadyan, Vahe Matzner, Richard Penrose, Roger Sindoni, Giampiero Paris, Claudio Khachatryan, Harutyun Mirzoyan, Sergey Eur Phys J C Part Fields Regular Article - Theoretical Physics 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 of laser-ranged observations of the LARES, LAGEOS, and LAGEOS 2 laser-ranged satellites together with the Earth gravity field model GGM05S produced by the space geodesy mission GRACE. We measure [Formula: see text] , where [Formula: see text] 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 GGM05S. Our result is in agreement with the prediction of general relativity. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-03-04 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4946852/ /pubmed/27471430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3961-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3
spellingShingle Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Ciufolini, Ignazio
Paolozzi, Antonio
Pavlis, Erricos C.
Koenig, Rolf
Ries, John
Gurzadyan, Vahe
Matzner, Richard
Penrose, Roger
Sindoni, Giampiero
Paris, Claudio
Khachatryan, Harutyun
Mirzoyan, Sergey
A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames
title A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames
title_full A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames
title_fullStr A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames
title_full_unstemmed A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames
title_short A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames
title_sort test of general relativity using the lares and lageos satellites and a grace earth gravity model: measurement of earth’s dragging of inertial frames
topic Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4946852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3961-8
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