Gravity Probe C(lock) - Probing the gravitomagnetic field of the Earth by means of a clock experiment

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dc.creatorGronwald, Frank
dc.creatorGruber, Eleonora
dc.creatorLichtenegger, Herbert
dc.creatorPuntigam, Roland A.
dc.date1997-12-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:32:06Z
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dc.descriptionWe outline a mission with the aim of directly detecting the gravitomagnetic field of the Earth. This mission is called Gravity Probe C. Gravity Probe C(lock) is based on a recently discovered and surprisingly large gravitomagnetic clock effect. The main idea is to compare the proper time of two standard clocks in direct and retrograde orbits around the Earth. After one orbit the proper time difference of two such clocks is predicted to be of the order of $2\times 10^{-7}$ s. The conceptual difficulty to perform Gravity Probe C is expected to be comparable to that of the Gravity Probe B--mission.
dc.description9 pages LATEX, to appear in the Proceedings of the Alpbach Summer School 1997 ``Fundamental Physics in Space'', organised by the Austrian and European Space Agency
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712054
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712054
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36102
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleGravity Probe C(lock) - Probing the gravitomagnetic field of the Earth by means of a clock experiment
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