Testing general relativity by micro-arcsecond global astrometry

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 399, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 337-342

  Vecchiato, A ^a,c   Lattanzi, M G ^b   Bucciarelli, B ^b   Crosta, M ^a,b,c   De Felice, F ^a,c   Gai, M ^b  

^a SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c Centro di Ateneo di Studi Ed Attivit Spaziali Giuseppe Colombo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Gravitation; Relativity; Space vehicles: instruments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOMETRY; RELATIVITY; SPACECRAFT; TENSORS;

GLOBAL ASTROMETRY; POST-NEWTONIAN GRAVITATION; SPACE VEHICLES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0037329065     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021785     Document Type: Article

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