Solar system planetary tests of c/c

DOI10.1007/S10714-009-0830-XMaRDI QIDQ849400zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Iorio

Publication date 25 February 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3063

zbMATH Keywords

experimental studies of gravitymodified theories of gravitysolar system objects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Analytical and numerical calculations show that a putative temporal variation of the speed of light c, with the meaning of space-time structure constant c_ST, assumed to be linear over timescales of about one century, would induce a secular precession of the longitude of the pericenter varpi of a test particle orbiting a spherically symmetric body. By comparing such a predicted effect to the corrections Deltadotvarpi to the usual Newtonian/Einsteinian perihelion precessions of the inner planets of the Solar System, recently estimated by E.V. Pitjeva by fitting about one century of modern astronomical observations with the standard dynamical force models of the EPM epehemerides, we obtained dot c/c =(0.5 +/- 2) imes 10^-7 yr^-1. Moreover, the possibility that dot c/c eq 0 over the last century is ruled out at 3-12sigma level by taking the ratios of the perihelia for different pairs of planets. Our results are independent of any measurement of the variations of other fundamental constants which may be explained by a variation of $c$ itself (with the meaning of electromagnetic constant c_EM). It will be important to repeat such tests if and when other teams of astronomers will estimate their own corrections to the standard Newtonian/Einsteinian planetary perihelion precessions.

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