Weighing the Milky Way

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/13/326MaRDI QIDQ4457637zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Angelo Tartaglia, Ashfaque H. Bokhari, Munawar Karim

Publication date 25 March 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203098

zbMATH Keywords

Kerr metricstrong equivalence principleMilky Way galaxyMichelson-Morley experimentmass of the galactic centre

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: We describe an experiment to measure the mass of the Milky Way galaxy. The experiment is based on calculated light travel times along orthogonal directions in the Schwarzschild metric of the Galactic center. We show that the difference is proportional to the Galactic mass. We apply the result to light travel times in a 10cm Michelson type interferometer located on Earth. The mass of the Galactic center is shown to contribute 10^-6 to the flat space component of the metric. An experiment is proposed to measure the effect.

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