On a New Observable for Measuring the Lense–Thirring Effect with Satellite Laser Ranging

2002/06/30 by Lorenzo Iorio · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph #gr-qc #physics.space-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1023/a:1025727001141

published as Gen.Rel.Grav. 35 (2003) 1583-1595 · LaTex2e, 14 pages, 1 table, no figures. Some changes and additions to the abstract, Introduction and Conclusions. References updated, typos corrected. Equation corrected. To appear in General Relativity and Gravitation

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Abstract

In this paper we present a rather extensive error budget for the difference of the perigees of a pair of supplementary SLR satellites aimed to the detection of the Lense-Thirring effect.

Citations

• A new proposal for measuring the Lense–Thirring effect with a pair of supplementary satellites in the gravitational field of the Earth
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• Constraints on a Yukawa gravitational potential from laser data of LAGEOS satellites
• Reassessment of the error modelling of non-gravitational perturbations on LAGEOS II and their impact in the Lense–Thirring derivation—Part II

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