Phenomenology of the Lense-Thirring effect in the solar system

Iorio, Lorenzo; Lichtenegger, Herbert; Ruggiero, Matteo Luca; Corda, Christian

doi:10.1007/s10509-010-0489-5

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“…For earlier theoretical calculation of the LT effect on the perihelion precession of Mercury based on previous estimates of Mercury's orbit and the Sun's angular momentum (see de Sitter 1916;Barker & O'Connell 1970;Cugusi & Proverbio 1978;Soffel 1989). The Earth-induced LT effect has been detected for the LAGEOS satellites in Earth orbit (with 10% stated uncertainty, but with ongoing evaluation; Ciufolini & Pavlis 2004;Ciufolini et al 2011;Iorio 2011b;Renzetti 2014) and contributed to the precession of gyroscopes measured by Gravity Probe B (19%) (Everitt et al 2011). Instead of estimating the LT effect, which is linearly proportional to S e , we consider the effect of an uncertainty of´-15 10 kg m s 39 2 1 in the estimation process (Bierman 1977), which is 10 times the reported uncertainty from helioseismology (Pijpers 1998).…”

Section: Dynamical Effects On Precession Of Mercury's Perihelionmentioning

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Precession of Mercury’s Perihelion from Ranging to the MESSENGER Spacecraft

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The perihelion of Mercury's orbit precesses due to perturbations from other solar system bodies, solar quadrupole moment (J 2 ), and relativistic gravitational effects that are proportional to linear combinations of the parametrized post-Newtonian parameters β and γ. The orbits and masses of the solar system bodies are quite well known, and thus the uncertainty in recovering the precession rate of Mercury's perihelion is dominated by the uncertainties in the parameters J 2 , β, and γ. Separating the effects due to these parameters is challenging since the secular precession rate has a linear dependence on each parameter. Here we use an analysis of radiometric range measurements to the MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft in orbit about Mercury to estimate the precession of Mercury's perihelion. We show that the MESSENGER ranging data allow us to measure not only the secular precession rate of Mercury's perihelion with substantially improved accuracy, but also the periodic perturbation in the argument of perihelion sensitive to β and γ. When combined with the γ estimate from a Shapiro delay experiment from the Cassini mission, we can decouple the effects due to β and J 2 and estimate both parameters, yielding ( ) ( ) b -= -´-1 2.7 3.9 10 5 and J 2 =(2.25±0.09)×10 −7. We also estimate the total precession rate of Mercury's perihelion as 575.3100±0.0015″/century and provide estimated contributions and uncertainties due to various perturbing effects.

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Section: Dynamical Effects On Precession Of Mercury's Perihelionmentioning

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Precession of Mercury’s Perihelion from Ranging to the MESSENGER Spacecraft

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“…Rathke and Izzo (2006) concluded that if the effect of a Pioneer anomalous acceleration is parameterized in a change of effective reduced solar mass, then the effects on Neptune and Uranus would be an order of magnitude, or two, greater than the current observational constraints and "the anomaly exceeds by five orders of magnitude the corrections to Newtonian motion predicted by general relativity (at 50 AU solar distance)." Today the constraints on anomalous accelerations for Earth and Mars are much tighter (Iorio 2009b;Folkner 2010) and the current status of researches on general relativity in the Solar System is described by Iorio et al (2011).…”

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Scope for a small circumsolar annular gravitational contribution to the Pioneer anomaly without affecting planetary orbits

Moore¹,

Moore²

2013

Astrophys Space Sci

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All proposed gravitational explanations of the Pioneer anomaly must crucially face the Equivalence Principle. Thus, if Pioneers 10 and 11 were influenced by anomalous gravitational effects in regions containing other Solar System bodies, then those bodies should likewise be influenced, irrespective of their shape, composition or mass. Although the lack of any observed influence upon planetary orbits severely constrains such explanations, here we aim to construct by computer modeling, hypothetical gravitating annuli having no gravitational impact on planetary orbits from Mercury to Neptune. One model has a central zone, free of radial gravitation in the annular plane, and an 'onset' beyond Saturn's orbit, where sunward annular gravitation increases to match the Pioneer anomaly data. Sharp nulls are included so that Uranus and Neptune escape this influence. Such models can be proportionately reduced in mass: a 1 % contribution to the anomaly requires an annulus of approximately 1 Earth mass. It is thus possible to comply with the JPL assessment of newly recovered data attributing 80 %, or more, of the anomaly to spacecraft heat, which appears to allow small contributions from other causes. Following the possibility of an increasing Kuiper belt density at great ranges, another model makes an outward small anomalous gravitation in the TNO region, tallying with an observed slight indication of such an effect, suggesting that New Horizons may slightly accelerate in this region.G.S.M. Moore ( ) · R.E.M. Moore

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“…This has been done in particular in the context of the detection of the Lense-Thirring effect in the Solar System (see, e.g., [62,63] and the references therein).…”

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confidence: 99%