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General Post-Newtonian Orbital Effects : From Earth's Satellites to the Galactic Center
General Post-Newtonian Orbital Effects : From Earth's Satellites to the Galactic Center
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Author(s): Iorio, Lorenzo
ISBN No.: 9781009562874
Pages: 350
Year: 202412
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 216.62
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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 primaries, 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.


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