Gravitomagnetic effects of a massive and slowly rotating sphere with an equatorial mass current on orbiting test particles
Abstract
Within the framework of linearized Einstein field equations we compute the gravitomagnetic effects on a test particle orbiting a slowly rotating, spherical body with a rotating matter ring fixed to the equatorial plane. Our results show that the effect on the precession of particle orbits is increased by the presence of the ring.
- Publication:
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Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis
- Pub Date:
- January 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921309990317
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0905.4235
- Bibcode:
- 2010IAUS..261..152C
- Keywords:
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- Gravitation;
- Solar System;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 3 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 261, 2009