Satellite probing General Relativity and its extensions and Kolmogorov analysis

Authors :: Gurzadyan, V. G.
Ciufolini, I.
Sargsyan, S.
Yegorian, G.
Mirzoyan, S.
Paolozzi, A.
Source :: Europhys. Lett. 102 (2013) 60002
Publication Year :: 2013
Abstract: We apply the Kolmogorov statistic to analyse the residual data of two LAGEOS satellites on General Relativistic Lense-Thirring effect, and show that it reveals a tiny difference in the properties of the satellites, possibly related to Yarkovsky-Rubincam effect. The recently launched LAser RElativity Satellite (LARES) can provide constraints to the extensions of General Relativity such as the Chern-Simons (CS) gravity with metric coupled to a scalar field through the Pontryagin density, so an explicit dependence on the frame dragging measurements vs the CS parameter is given.<br />Comment: to match the published version, 4 pages, 3 figures