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A comment on the new non-conventional gravitational mechanism proposed by Jaekel and Reynaud to accommodate the Pioneer anomaly | Lorenzo Iorio
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14 Nov 2006 | Abstract: | In this paper we put on the test the new mechanism of gravitational origin recently put forth by Jaekel and Reynaud in order to explain the Pioneer anomaly in the framework of their post-Einsteinian metric extension of general relativity. According to such a proposal, the secular part of the anomalous acceleration experienced by the twin spacecraft of about 1 nm s$^{-2}$ could be caused by an extra-potential deltaPhi_P=c^2chi r^2, with chi=4 10^-8 AU^-2, coming from the second sector of the considered model. When applied to the motion of the planets of the Solar System, it would induce anomalous secular perihelion advances which amount to o tens-hundreds of arcseconds per century for the outer planets. As for other previously proposed non-conventional gravitational explanations of the Pioneer anomaly, the answer of the latest observational determinations of the residual perihelion rates by RAS IAA is neatly and unambiguously negative. The presence of another possible candidate to explain the Pioneer anomaly, i.e. the extra-potential deltaPhi_N, linear in distance, from the first sector of the Jaekel and Reynaud model, is ruled out not only by the residuals of the optical data of the outer planets processed with the recent RAS IAA EPM2004 ephemerides but also by those produced with other, older dynamical theories like, e.g., the well known NASA JPL DE200. | Source: | arXiv, gr-qc/0611081 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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