Weighing the Milky Way

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/13/326zbMATH Open1038.83002arXivgr-qc/0203098OpenAlexW3098952373MaRDI QIDQ4457637FDOQ4457637

Ashfaque H. Bokhari, Munawar Karim, Angelo Tartaglia

Publication date: 25 March 2004

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

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.

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)

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