A critical analysis of a recent test of the Lense-Thirring effect with the LAGEOS satellites

DOI10.1007/S00190-006-0058-4MaRDI QIDQ2461464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors L. Iorio

Publication date 28 November 2007

Published in Journal of Geodesy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0412057

zbMATH Keywords

even zonal harmonics and their secular variationsgrace earth gravity field modelsLAGEOS satellitesLense-Thirring effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30)

Abstract: We discuss the impact of the present-day uncertainties in the recently released CHAMP and/or GRACE Earth gravity models on the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with the nodes of the LAGEOS satellites. Also the role of the secular variations Jdots of the even zonal harmonics is quantitatively assessed via numerical simulations and tests. While the systematic error due to the static part of the geopotential ranges from 4% (EIGEN-GRACE02S) to 9% (GGM02S), the impact of the Jdots amounts to 13% over 11 years. This yields a 19% 1-sigma total error in the test recently performed with EIGEN-GRACE02S.

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