Earth-Moon Lagrangian points as a testbed for general relativity and effective field theories of gravity
- Submitting institution
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University of Central Lancashire
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 13395
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevD.92.064045
- Title of journal
- Physical Review D
- Article number
- 64045
- First page
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- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 1550-7998
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 9 - Physics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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A - Aerospace and Sensing Group
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper resulted from the MoonLIGHT-2 experiment, funded by the European MCRTN AstroNet (Contract Grant No. MRTN-CT-2006-035151), and European Research Council Grant (227571-VISIONSPACE). It describes a method for considering the solar perturbations of a spacecraft’s motion in the vicinity of Earth-Moon liberation points, calculating the impulse required to counteract the Sun’s perturbing force, forcing the spacecraft to stay precisely at the liberation points. Furthermore, the work presents quantum corrections to Einstein gravity and a new laser ranging test of general relativity to measure a 7.61-meter correction to the L1 Lagrangian point, an observable never used before in the Sun-Earth-Moon system.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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