GRACE, time-varying gravity, Earth system dynamics and climate change

B Wouters, JA Bonin, DP Chambers… - Reports on Progress …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Continuous observations of temporal variations in the Earth's gravity field have recently
become available at an unprecedented resolution of a few hundreds of kilometers. The …

Phenomenology of the Lense-Thirring effect in the solar system

L Iorio, HIM Lichtenegger, ML Ruggiero… - Astrophysics and Space …, 2011 - Springer
Recent years have seen increasing efforts to directly measure some aspects of the general
relativistic gravitomagnetic interaction in several astronomical scenarios in the solar system …

Measuring gravitomagnetic effects by a multi-ring-laser gyroscope

F Bosi, G Cella, A Di Virgilio, A Ortolan, A Porzio… - Physical Review D …, 2011 - APS
We propose an underground experiment to detect the general relativistic effects due to the
curvature of space-time around the Earth (de Sitter effect) and to the rotation of the planet …

Lunar laser ranging: the millimeter challenge

TW Murphy - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Lunar laser ranging has provided many of the best tests of gravitation since the first Apollo
astronauts landed on the Moon. The march to higher precision continues to this day, now …

Tests of Lorentz symmetry in the gravitational sector

A Hees, QG Bailey, A Bourgoin, H Pihan-Le Bars… - Universe, 2016 - mdpi.com
Lorentz symmetry is one of the pillars of both General Relativity and the Standard Model of
particle physics. Motivated by ideas about quantum gravity, unification theories and …

Multiscale constraints on scalar-field couplings to matter: The geodetic and frame-dragging effects

D Benisty, P Brax, AC Davis - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The impact of light scalars coupled conformally and disformally to matter on the geodetic
and frame-dragging precessions is calculated. For larger frequencies the disformal …

Testing the gravitational interaction in the field of the Earth via satellite laser ranging and the Laser Ranged Satellites Experiment (LARASE)

DM Lucchesi, L Anselmo, M Bassan… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, the Laser Ranged Satellites Experiment (LARASE) is presented. This is a
research program that aims to perform new refined tests and measurements of gravitation in …

History of the attempts to measure orbital frame-dragging with artificial satellites

G Renzetti - Central European Journal of Physics, 2013 - Springer
History of the attempts to measure orbital frame-dragging with artificial satellites Page 1 Cent.
Eur. J. Phys. • 11(5) • 2013 • 531-544 DOI: 10.2478/s11534-013-0189-1 Central European …

Gravito-electromagnetic analogies

LFO Costa, J Natário - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2014 - Springer
We reexamine and further develop different gravito-electromagnetic analogies found in the
literature, and clarify the connection between them. Special emphasis is placed in two exact …

LARES successfully launched in orbit: satellite and mission description

A Paolozzi, I Ciufolini - Acta Astronautica, 2013 - Elsevier
On February 13th 2012, the LARES satellite of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) was launched
into orbit with the qualification flight of the new VEGA launcher of the European Space …