The confrontation between general relativity and experiment

CM Will - Living reviews in relativity, 2014 - Springer
The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for
analyzing them is reviewed and updated. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well …

The 1919 measurement of the deflection of light

CM Will - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The measurement of the deflection of starlight during a total solar eclipse on 29 May 1919
was the first verification of general relativity by an external team of scientists, brought …

ZAIGA: Zhaoshan long-baseline atom interferometer gravitation antenna

MS Zhan, J Wang, WT Ni, DF Gao, G Wang… - … Journal of Modern …, 2020 - World Scientific
The Zhaoshan long-baseline Atom Interferometer Gravitation Antenna (ZAIGA) is a new type
of underground laser-linked interferometer facility, and is currently under construction. It is in …

Precession of Mercury's Perihelion from Ranging to the MESSENGER Spacecraft

RS Park, WM Folkner, AS Konopliv… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The perihelion of Mercury's orbit precesses due to perturbations from other solar system
bodies, solar quadrupole moment (J 2), and relativistic gravitational effects that are …

A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model: Measurement of Earth's dragging of inertial frames

I Ciufolini, A Paolozzi, EC Pavlis, R Koenig… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
We present a test of general relativity, the measurement of the Earth's dragging of inertial
frames. Our result is obtained using about 3.5 years of laser-ranged observations of the …

Constraining the range of Yukawa gravity interaction from S2star orbits

D Borka, P Jovanović, VB Jovanović… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider possible signatures for Yukawa gravity within the Galactic Central Parsec,
based on our analysis of the S2 star orbital precession around the massive compact dark …

History of the attempts to measure orbital frame-dragging with artificial satellites

G Renzetti - Central European Journal of Physics, 2013 - Springer
History of the attempts to measure orbital frame-dragging with artificial satellites Page 1 Cent.
Eur. J. Phys. • 11(5) • 2013 • 531-544 DOI: 10.2478/s11534-013-0189-1 Central European …

LARES successfully launched in orbit: satellite and mission description

A Paolozzi, I Ciufolini - Acta Astronautica, 2013 - Elsevier
On February 13th 2012, the LARES satellite of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) was launched
into orbit with the qualification flight of the new VEGA launcher of the European Space …

A new laser-ranged satellite for General Relativity and space geodesy: I. An introduction to the LARES2 space experiment

I Ciufolini, A Paolozzi, EC Pavlis, G Sindoni… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
We introduce the LARES 2 space experiment recently approved by the Italian Space Agency
(ASI). The LARES 2 satellite is planned for launch in 2019 with the new VEGA C launch …

[HTML][HTML] Studying the properties of spacetime with an improved dynamical model of the inner solar system

D Pavlov, I Dolgakov - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
Physical properties of the Sun (orientation of rotation axis, oblateness coefficient J 2⊙, and
change rate of the gravitational parameter μ˙⊙) are determined using a dynamical model …