ON THE SPEED OF GRAVITY AND THE JUPITER/QUASAR MEASUREMENT
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Publication:4662691
DOI10.1142/S0218271804005900zbMath1065.83505arXivastro-ph/0412401MaRDI QIDQ4662691
Publication date: 30 March 2005
Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: I present the theory and analysis behind the experiment by Fomalont and Kopeikin involving Jupiter and quasar J0842+1845 that purported to measure the speed of gravity. The computation of the v_J/c correction to the gravitational time delay difference relevant to the experiment is derived, where v_J is the speed of Jupiter as measured from Earth. Since the v_J/c corrections are too small to have been measured in the Jupiter/quasar experiment, it is impossible that the speed of gravity was extracted from the data, and I explain what when wrong with the data analysis. Finally, mistakes are shown in papers by Fomalont and Kopeikin intended to rebut my work and the work of others.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412401
Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)
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