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Testing Lorentz symmetry with planetary orbital dynamics

A. Hees, Q. G. Bailey, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, A. Bourgoin, A. Rivoldini, B. Lamine, F. Meynadier, C. Guerlin, and P. Wolf
Phys. Rev. D 92, 064049 – Published 29 September 2015
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Abstract

Planetary ephemerides are a very powerful tool to constrain deviations from the theory of general relativity (GR) using orbital dynamics. The effective field theory framework called the Standard-Model Extension (SME) has been developed in order to systematically parametrize hypothetical violations of Lorentz symmetry (in the Standard Model and in the gravitational sector). In this communication, we use the latest determinations of the supplementary advances of the perihelia and of the nodes obtained by planetary ephemerides analysis to constrain SME coefficients from the pure gravity sector and also from gravity-matter couplings. Our results do not show any deviation from GR and they improve current constraints. Moreover, combinations with existing constraints from Lunar Laser Ranging and from atom interferometry gravimetry allow us to disentangle contributions from the pure gravity sector from the gravity-matter couplings.

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  • Received 14 August 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.064049

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Testing Relativity with Planetary Motion  

Published 29 September 2015

Observations of the orbital motion of planets around the Sun allow researchers to place stringent limits on Lorentz symmetry violations.

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Authors & Affiliations

A. Hees1,*, Q. G. Bailey2, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte3, A. Bourgoin3, A. Rivoldini4, B. Lamine5, F. Meynadier3, C. Guerlin6,3, and P. Wolf3

  • 1Department of Mathematics, Rhodes University, 6140 Grahamstown, South Africa
  • 2Department of Physics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 3700 Willow Creek Road, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
  • 3SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, LNE, 61 avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
  • 4Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue Circulaire, 3, 1180 Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 5IRAP, Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, CNRS, F-31028 Toulouse, France
  • 6Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-PSL Research University, CNRS, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, Collège de France, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris

  • *a.hees@ru.ac.za

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Vol. 92, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2015

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