Lunar laser ranging

A space geodetic technique to test relativity

authored by: Jürgen Müller
Abstract: Lunar laser ranging (LLR) has routinely provided observations for more than 36 years. The main benefit of this geodetic technique is the determination of many parameters of the Earth-Moon dynamics (e.g. orbit and rotation of the Moon or lunar physics) and the test of metric theories of gravity. LLR data analysis determines gravitational physics quantities such as the equivalence principle, any time variation of the gravitational constant, and several metric parameters. We give an overview of the recent status of our LLR analysis procedure and present new results for some relativistic quantities.
Organisation(s): Institute of Geodesy
Type: Conference contribution
Pages: 2576-2578
No. of pages: 3
Publication date: 01.12.2008
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812834300_0463 (Access: Unknown)
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BibTeX

@inproceedings{b254021503cf43a5b06ceffbb16f8e96,
title = "Lunar laser ranging: A space geodetic technique to test relativity",
abstract = "Lunar laser ranging (LLR) has routinely provided observations for more than 36 years. The main benefit of this geodetic technique is the determination of many parameters of the Earth-Moon dynamics (e.g. orbit and rotation of the Moon or lunar physics) and the test of metric theories of gravity. LLR data analysis determines gravitational physics quantities such as the equivalence principle, any time variation of the gravitational constant, and several metric parameters. We give an overview of the recent status of our LLR analysis procedure and present new results for some relativistic quantities.",
author = "J{\"u}rgen M{\"u}ller",
year = "2008",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1142/9789812834300_0463",
language = "English",
isbn = "9812834265",
series = "11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity",
pages = "2576--2578",
booktitle = "11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity",
note = "11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2006 ; Conference date: 23-07-2006 Through 29-07-2006",
}