In this paper, a material system consisting of two spherically symmetric bodies of comparable masses located inside a gas-dust ball with a spherically symmetric distribution of the density of the medium in it is considered. After choosing the corresponding energy-momentum tensor from the Einstein field equations using the Einstein-Infeld approximation procedure, the metric of the corresponding space-time, the gravitational field created by the «two-body – medium» system are found, and then the equations of motion of the bodies and their center of mass are obtained in Newton’s and post-Newtonian approximations of the general theory of relativity. It is proved that in the case of the indicated density of the medium, the following effect should exist already in the Newtonian approximation. The center of mass of two bodies shifts at a variable speed, although it was at rest in the void. This situation is a consequence of the fact that the two-body-medium system is not closed. For the first time, formulas for calculating the displacement value, which is proportional to the density of the medium in the center of the gas-dust ball and the 5th degree of the distance between the bodies, are derived. Therefore, at large distances between bodies, their center of mass has large displacements (it can reach several million kilometers per revolution of bodies around their center of mass). If the masses of the bodies are equal, their center of mass is at rest if it is at rest in the void.
The motion equations for a system of two bodies moving in a medium are derived in the Cartesian coordinate system in the Newtonian theory. The coordinate system is barycentric, that is, the center of mass of the two-body system is immobile. Using the Einstein – Infeld approximation procedure, the gravitational field created by the “two bodies – medium” system was found from the Einstein field equations, and then the equations of motion of the bodies in this field were obtained.It is shown that in the post-Newtonian approximation of the general theory of relativity, the center of mass of two bodies moving in a gas – dust rarefied medium of constant density, determined by analogy with the Newtonian center of mass, is displaced along the cycloid, although in the Newtonian approximation it is stationary, i.e. the movement along the cycloid occurs with respect to the barycentric Newtonian fixed reference frame. Numerical estimates are given for the magnitude of this displacement. Given a popular value of the medium density ρ = 10–21 g·cm–3 its order can reach 106 km per one rotation of two bodies around their center of mass. In the case of the equality of masses of the bodies, their relativistic center of mass, like their Newtonian center of mass, is immobile.It has been hypothesized that for any elliptical orbits of two bodies and an inhomogeneous distribution of the gas – dust medium the qualitative picture of motion of the relativistic center of mass of the two bodies will not change.
This paper reviews the works by the Belarusian school investigators on relativistic motion and its stability for a system of bodies, each of which may have its own rotation, charge, and magnetic field of the dipole type. The corresponding Lagrangian and conservation laws are derived, several secular effects are predicted. For motion of bodies in the medium the secular effect of the periastron reverse shift is predicted as compared to the Mercury perihelion shift. The cause for the Pioneer anomaly is explained.Keywords: general relativity theory, post-Newtonian approximation, equations of motion, Pioneer anomaly, secular effect of the periastron reverse. PACS numbers: 04.25.-g, 04.40-b, 04.80-y, 95.10-a, 96.25-f INTRODUCTION.
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