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Abstract In 2016, we published “A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth’s gravity model. Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames [1]”, a measurement of frame-dragging, a fundamental prediction of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, using t...
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doaj-43508086cfda4065aee615262eb36e6a2020-11-25T01:36:25ZengSpringerOpenEuropean Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields1434-60441434-60522018-10-01781111110.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6303-1Reply to “A comment on “A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model, by I. Ciufolini et al.””Ignazio Ciufolini0Erricos C. Pavlis1John Ries2Richard Matzner3Rolf Koenig4Antonio Paolozzi5Giampiero Sindoni6Vahe Gurzadyan7Roger Penrose8Claudio Paris9Dip. Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università del SalentoJoint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of MarylandCenter for Space Research, University of Texas at AustinTheory Group, University of Texas at AustinHelmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesScuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di RomaScuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di RomaCenter for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Alikhanian National LaboratoryMathematical Institute, University of OxfordCentro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico FermiAbstract In 2016, we published “A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth’s gravity model. Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames [1]”, a measurement of frame-dragging, a fundamental prediction of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, using the laser-ranged satellites LARES, LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2. The formal error, or precision, of our test was about 0.2% of frame-dragging, whereas the systematic error was estimated to be about 5%. In the 2017 paper “A comment on “A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth’s gravity model by I. Ciufolini et al.”” by L. Iorio [2] (called I2017 in the following), it was incorrectly claimed that, when comparing different Earth’s gravity field models, the systematic error in our test due to the Earth’s even zonal harmonics of degree 6, 8, 10 could be as large as 15%, 6% and 36%, respectively. Furthermore, I2017 contains other, also incorrect, claims about the number of necessary significant decimal digits of the coefficients used in our test (claimed to be nine), in order to eliminate the largest uncertainties in the even zonals of degree 2 and 4, and about the non-repeatability of our test. Here we analyze and rebut those claims in I2017.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6303-1 |
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Abstract In 2016, we published “A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth’s gravity model. Measurement of Earth’s dragging of inertial frames [1]”, a measurement of frame-dragging, a fundamental prediction of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, using the laser-ranged satellites LARES, LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2. The formal error, or precision, of our test was about 0.2% of frame-dragging, whereas the systematic error was estimated to be about 5%. In the 2017 paper “A comment on “A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth’s gravity model by I. Ciufolini et al.”” by L. Iorio [2] (called I2017 in the following), it was incorrectly claimed that, when comparing different Earth’s gravity field models, the systematic error in our test due to the Earth’s even zonal harmonics of degree 6, 8, 10 could be as large as 15%, 6% and 36%, respectively. Furthermore, I2017 contains other, also incorrect, claims about the number of necessary significant decimal digits of the coefficients used in our test (claimed to be nine), in order to eliminate the largest uncertainties in the even zonals of degree 2 and 4, and about the non-repeatability of our test. Here we analyze and rebut those claims in I2017. |
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