General Post-Newtonian Orbital Effects (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009562874)

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.

Author: Lorenzo Iorio
ISBN-10: 1009562878
ISBN-13: 9781009562874
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2024
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d