A comment on the paper "On the orbit of the LARES satellite", by I. Ciufolini

Simple item page
dc.creatorIorio, Lorenzo
dc.date2006-09-21
dc.date2007-03-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:04:31Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:04:31Z
dc.descriptionIn this note we comment on a recent paper by I.Ciufolini about the possibility of placing the proposed terrestrial satellite LARES in a low-altitude, nearly polar orbit in order to measure the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect with its node. Ciufolini claims that, for a departure of 4 deg in the satellite's inclination $i$ from the ideal polar configuration (i=90 deg), the impact of the errors in the even zonal harmonics of the geopotential, modelled with EIGEN-GRACE02S, would be nearly zero allowing for a few-percent measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect. Instead, we find that, with the same Earth gravity model and for the same values of the inclination, the upper bound of the systematic error due to the mismodelling in the even zonals amounts to 64% of the relativistic effect investigated.
dc.descriptionLaTex, 7 pages, no figures, 1 table. It refers to gr-qc/0609081 by I. Ciufolini. Quotation from such paper added: in it Ciufolini explicitly claims that his nearly polar LARES would be sufficient, without using LAGEOS and LAGEOS II. Typos corrected. Reference added. Style improved. Clarifications added. To appear in Planetary and Space Science
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0609097
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0609097
dc.identifierPlanet.SpaceSci.55:1198-1200,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.pss.2007.03.005
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/188917
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeophysics
dc.subjectSpace Physics
dc.titleA comment on the paper "On the orbit of the LARES satellite", by I. Ciufolini
dc.typetext

Files

Collections

arXiv