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Light Deflection under the Gravitational Field of Jupiterâ€"Testing General Relativity.

Authors :
Li, Yingjie
Xu, Ye
Li, JingJing
Wu, Yuanwei
Bian, Shaibo
Lin, ZeHao
Yang, WenJin
Hao, Chaojie
Liu, DeJian
Source :
Astrophysical Journal; 1/20/2022, Vol. 925 Issue 1, p1-11, 11p
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

We measured the relative positions between two pairs of compact extragalactic sources (CESs), J1925-2219 and J1923-2104 (C1â€"C2) and J1925-2219 and J1928-2035 (C1â€"C3), on 2020 October 23â€"25 and 2021 February 5 (totaling four epochs), respectively, using the Very Long Baseline Array at 15 GHz. Accounting for the deflection angle dominated by Jupiter, as well as the contributions from the Sun and planets other than Earth, the Moon, and Ganymede (the most massive of the solar system’s moons), our theoretical calculations predict that the dynamical ranges of the relative positions across four epochs in R.A. of the C1â€"C2 pair and C1â€"C3 pair are 841.2 and 1127.9 ÎĽ as, respectively. The formal accuracy in R.A. is about 20 ÎĽ as, but the error in decl. is poor. The measured standard deviations of the relative positions across the four epochs are 51.0 and 29.7 ÎĽ as in R.A. for C1â€"C2 and C1â€"C3, respectively. These values indicate that the accuracy of the post-Newtonian relativistic parameter, Îł, is ∼0.061 for C1â€"C2 and ∼0.026 for C1â€"C3. Combining the two CES pairs, the measured value of Îł is 0.984 ± 0.037, which is comparable to the latest published results for Jupiter as a gravitational lens, reported by Fomalont & Kopeikin, i.e., 1.01 ± 0.03. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0004637X
Volume :
925
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Astrophysical Journal
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
154934675
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3821