CAN THE PIONEER ANOMALY BE INDUCED BY VELOCITY-DEPENDENT FORCES? TESTS IN THE OUTER REGIONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH PLANETARY DYNAMICS

DOI10.1142/S0218271809014856zbMATH Open1168.83304arXiv0806.3011OpenAlexW3099907945WikidataQ56032484 ScholiaQ56032484MaRDI QIDQ3394749FDOQ3394749

Authors: L. Iorio 

Publication date: 8 September 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the impact on the orbital motions of the outer planets of the solar system from Jupiter to Pluto of some velocity-dependent forces recently proposed to phenomenologically explain the Pioneer anomaly, and compare their predictions (secular variations of the longitude of perihelion varpi or of the semimajor axis a and the eccentricity e) with the latest observational determinations by E.V. Pitjeva with the EPM2006 ephemerides. It turns out that while the predicted centennial shifts of a are so huge that they would have been easily detected for all planets with the exception of Neptune, the predicted anomalous precessions of varpi are too small, with the exception of Jupiter, so that they are still compatible with the estimated corrections to the standard Newton-Einstein perihelion precessions. As a consequence, we incline to discard those extra-forces predicting secular variations of a and e, also for some other reasons, and to give a chance, at least observationally, to those models predicting still undetectable perihelion precessions. Of course, adequate theoretical foundations for them should be found.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3011

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zbMATH Keywords

celestial mechanicsmodified theories of gravityexperimental tests of gravitational theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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