Measurement of the solar gravitational deflection of radio waves using geodetic very-long-baseline interferometry data, 1979-1999

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Shapiro, S S ^a,b   Davis, J L ^b   Lebach, D E ^b   Gregory, J S ^a,c  

^a GUILFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c AmeriCorps ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTH (PLANET); ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICS; RELATIVITY; SUN;

GENERAL RELATIVITY (GR); RADIO SOURCES; SYSTEMATIC BIASES; VERY-LONG-BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY (VLBI);

RADIO WAVES;

EID: 2342587305     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.121101     Document Type: Article

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