Constraining spacetime torsion with LAGEOS

DOI10.1007/S10714-011-1226-2MaRDI QIDQ650142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Riccardo March, Giovanni Bellettini, Roberto Tauraso, Simone Dell'Agnello

Publication date 25 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2791

zbMATH Keywords

torsionRiemann-Cartan spacetimeframe draggingautoparallel trajectoriesgeodetic precessiongravity probe Bsatellite laser ranging

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) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Experimental work for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-05)

Abstract: We compute the corrections to the orbital Lense-Thirring effect (or frame-dragging) in the presence of spacetime torsion. We derive the equations of motion of a test body in the gravitational field of a rotating axisymmetric massive body, using the parametrized framework of Mao, Tegmark, Guth and Cabi. We calculate the secular variations of the longitudes of the node and of the pericenter. We also show how the LAser GEOdynamics Satellites (LAGEOS) can be used to constrain torsion parameters. We report the experimental constraints obtained using both the nodes and perigee measurements of the orbital Lense-Thirring effect. This makes LAGEOS and Gravity Probe B (GPB) complementary frame-dragging and torsion experiments, since they constrain three different combinations of torsion parameters.

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