General post-Newtonian orbital effects

• Verfasst von: Iorio, Lorenzo [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: General post-Newtonian orbital effects
• Titelzusatz: from earth's satellites to the galactic centre
• Verf.angabe: Lorenzo Iorio (Ministry of Education and Merit (Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito))
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: xiii, 282 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-268
• ISBN: 978-1-009-56287-4
• Schlagwörter: (s)Umlaufbahn / (s)Gravitationstheorie
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: US 1200
• K10plus-PPN: 1914736885

Abstract

Orbital motions have always been used to test gravitational theories which, from time to time, have challenged the then-dominant paradigms. This book provides a unified treatment for calculating a wide variety of orbital effects due to general relativity and modified models of gravity, to its first and second post-Newtonian orders, in full generality. It gives explicit results valid for arbitrary orbital configurations and spin axes of the sources, without a priori simplifying assumptions on either the orbital eccentricity or inclination. These general results apply to a range of phenomena, from Earth's artificial satellites to the S-stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre to binary and triple pulsars, exoplanets, and interplanetary probes. Readers will become acquainted with working out a variety of orbital effects other than the time-honoured perihelion precession, designing their own space-based tests, performing effective sensitivity analyses, and assessing realistic error budgets.