Angular momentum effects in Michelson-Morley type experiments

DOI10.1023/A:1020022717216MaRDI QIDQ1855262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Angelo Tartaglia, Matteo Luca Ruggiero

Publication date 4 February 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0110015

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational sourcegravitomagnetismlight raysMichelson-Morley

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: The effect of the angular momentum density of a gravitational source on the times of flight of light rays in an interferometer is analyzed. The calculation is made imagining that the interferometer is at the equator of the gravity source and, as long as possible, the metric, provided it is stationary and axisymmetric, is not approximated. Finally, in order to evaluate the size of the effect in the case of the Earth a weak field approximation is introduced. For laboratory scales and non-geodesic paths the correction turns out to be comparable with the sensitivity expected in gravitational waves interferometric detectors, whereas it drops under the threshold of detectability when using free (geodesic) light rays.

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