A new accurate measurement of the dragging of inertial frames a century after the Einstein, Thirring and Lense papers.
Lucchesi D. M., Anselmo L., Bassan M., Magnafico C., Pardini C., Peron R., Pucacco G., Visco M.
Gravitomagnetism Frame dragging Satellite measurements LARASE
Gravitomagnetism represents one of the most peculiar predictions of Einstein's geometrodynamics and describes the spacetime curvature effects due to mass-currents. Following Einstein, gravitomagnetism is responsible of the so-called dragging of the local inertial frames, whose axes are defined by the orientation of gyroscopes with respect to the distant stars. The orbital plane of an Earth-orbiting satellite is a sort of enormous gyroscope once removed all classical perturbations that arise from the main gravitational and non-gravitational perturbations. We present a new measurement of the dragging effect on the combined orbits of the two LAGEOS satellites with that of LARES, which results in both a precise and accurate measurement of the Earth's gravitomagnetic field, towards an assessment of about a 1% of the main systematic sources of error. This result was achieved by the LARASE experiment under the astroparticle physics experiments of the National Scientific Committee 2 of the INFN.
Source: 105° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF), L'Aquila, 23-27/09/2019
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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:443521,
title = {A new accurate measurement of the dragging of inertial frames a century after the Einstein, Thirring and Lense papers.},
author = {Lucchesi D. M. and Anselmo L. and Bassan M. and Magnafico C. and Pardini C. and Peron R. and Pucacco G. and Visco M.},
booktitle = {105° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF), L'Aquila, 23-27/09/2019},
year = {2019}
}
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