Phenomenology of the Lense-Thirring effect in the solar system

By Lorenzo Iorio, H. Lichtenegger, Matteo Luca Ruggiero, Christian Corda. 2010

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Recent years have seen increasing efforts to directly measure some aspects of the general relativistic gravitomagnetic interaction in several astronomical scenarios in the solar system. After briefly overviewing the concept of gravitomagnetism from a theoretical point of view, we review the performed or proposed attempts to detect the Lense-Thirring effect affecting the orbital motions of natural and artificial bodies in the gravitational fields of the Sun, Earth, Mars and Jupiter. In particular, we will focus on the evaluation of the impact of several sources of systematic uncertainties of dynamical origin to realistically elucidate the present and future perspectives in directly measuring such an elusive relativistic effect.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Modified Gravity and Cosmology (2011, methodology): “The most accurate measurement of this effect claimed so far is at the level of 5 − 10% accuracy, and has been made using the LAser GEOdynamics Satellites (LAGEOS) [302] (there has, however, been some dispute of this result [641, 642]).”
General Relativity and Cosmology: Unsolved Questions and Future Directions (2016, background): “However, it has recently been pointed out that this could be possible in the next few years by focussing on particular models (Sun and planets, planets and spacecraft, or planets and planets) [339].”