Frame dragging and Lense-Thirring effect

DOI10.1023/B:GERG.0000046182.33249.77MaRDI QIDQ1768442zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ignazio Ciufolini

Publication date 15 March 2005

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000046182.33249.77

zbMATH Keywords

gravitomagnetismLense-Thirring effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Review text

The author describes some phenomena due to spin and mass-energy currents on clocks and photons. In particular the delay in the travel time of photons due to the spin of a body is obtained both inside a rotating shell and outside a rotating body. The author reviews the 1995-2001 measurements of the gravitomagnetic field of Earth and Lense-Thirring effect obtained by analyzing the orbits of the two laser-ranged satellites LAGEOS (LAser GEOdynamics Satellite) and LAGEOS II. The latest measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect, obtained in 2003 with the two LAGEOS satellites over more than 10 years are reported. The result fully confirms and improves the previous measurements of the Earth frame-dragging. The main result is that the Lense-Thirring effect exists and its experimental value is within \(\sim 20 \%\) of what is predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

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