Precise measurement of gravity variations during a total solar eclipse
Abstract
The variations of gravity were measured with a high precision LaCoste-Romberg D gravimeter during a total solar eclipse to investigate the effect of a solar eclipse on the gravitational field. The observed anomaly (7.0+/-2.7)×10-8 m/s2during the eclipse implies that there may be a shielding property of gravitation.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- August 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.041101
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1003.4947
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhRvD..62d1101W
- Keywords:
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- 04.80.Cc;
- 04.80.Nn;
- 95.10.Gi;
- Experimental tests of gravitational theories;
- Gravitational wave detectors and experiments;
- Eclipses transits and occultations;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Phys.Rev.D62:041101,2000