Putting Yukawa-like Modified Gravity (MOG) on the test in the Solar System

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dc.creatorIorio, Lorenzo
dc.date2008-09-21
dc.date2008-11-10
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dc.descriptionWe deal with a Yukawa-like long-range modified model of gravity (MOG) which recently allowed to successfully accommodate many astrophysical and cosmological features without resorting to dark matter. On Solar System scales MOG predicts retrograde secular precessions of the planetary longitudes of the perihelia \varpi whose existence has been put on the test here by taking the ratios of the observationally estimated Pitjeva's corrections to the standard Newtonian/Einsteinian perihelion precessions for different pairs of planets. It turns out that MOG, in the present form which turned out to be phenomenologically successful on astrophysical scales, is ruled out at more than 3sigma level in the Solar System. If and when other teams of astronomers will independently estimate their own extra-precessions of the perihelia it will be possible to repeat such a test.
dc.descriptionLaTex2e, 13 pages, 1 table, no figures. To appear in Scholarly Research Exchange (SYREXE). I thank the referees S. Capozziello and H.-S. Zhao
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3563
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3563
dc.identifierScholarly Research Exchange, vol. 2008, article ID 238385
dc.identifierdoi:10.3814/2008/238385
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/174481
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectSpace Physics
dc.titlePutting Yukawa-like Modified Gravity (MOG) on the test in the Solar System
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