On the Systematic Errors in the Detection of the Lense-Thirring Effect with a Mars Orbiter

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dc.creatorSindoni, Giampiero
dc.creatorParis, Claudio
dc.creatorIalongo, Paolo
dc.date2007-01-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:43:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:43:15Z
dc.descriptionWe show here that the recent claim of a test of the Lense-Thirring effect with an error of 0.5% using the Mars Global Surveyor is misleading and the quoted error is incorrect by a factor of at least ten thousand. Indeed, the simple error analysis of [1] neglects the role of some important systematic errors affecting the out-of-plane acceleration. The preliminary error analysis presented here shows that even an optimistic uncertainty for this measurement is at the level of, at least, ~ 3026% to ~ 4811%, i.e., even an optimistic uncertainty is about 30 to 48 times the Lense-Thirring effect. In other words by including only some systematic errors we obtained an uncertainty almost ten thousand times larger than the claimed 0.5% error.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0701141
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0701141
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/122754
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleOn the Systematic Errors in the Detection of the Lense-Thirring Effect with a Mars Orbiter
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