Publications (40)
GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. II. Parameterized Tests
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785
In this second of three papers on tests of general relativity (GR) applied to the compact binary coalescence signals in the 4th Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0), we…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Galactic anticentre
Gaia Collaboration, T. Antoja, P. McMillan +417
We aim to demonstrate the scientific potential of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) for the study of the Milky Way structure and evolution. We used astrometric positions, proper…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…
Gaia Data Release 2: The astrometric solution
L. Lindegren, J. Hernandez, A. Bombrun +87
Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite…
Quantum Physics Exploring Gravity in the Outer Solar System: The Sagas Project
P. Wolf, Ch. J. Bordé, A. Clairon +52
We summarise the scientific and technological aspects of the SAGAS (Search for Anomalous Gravitation using Atomic Sensors) project, submitted to ESA in June 2007 in response to the…
Tests of General relativity with planetary orbits and Monte Carlo simulations
A. Fienga, J. Laskar, P. Exertier +2
Based on the new developped planetary ephemerides INPOP13c, determinations of acceptable intervals of General Relativity violation in considering simultaneously the PPN parameters…
GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. III. Tests of the Remnants
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1779
This is the third paper of the set recording the results of the suite of tests of general relativity (GR) performed on the signals from the fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Cata…
Exogenous origin of hydration on asteroid (16) Psyche: The role of hydrated asteroid families
C. Avdellidou, M. Delbo', A. Fienga
Asteroid (16) Psyche, that for long was the largest M-type with no detection of hydration features in its spectrum, was recently discovered to have a weak 3 micron band and thus it…
INPOP new release: INPOP10e
A. Fienga, H. Manche, J. Laskar +2
The INPOP ephemerides have known several improvements and evolutions since the first INPOP06 release (Fienga et al. 2008) in 2008. In 2010, anticipating the IAU 2012 resolutions, a…
Lunar laser ranging in infrfared at hte Grasse laser station
C. Courde, J. M. Torre, E. Samain +9
For many years, lunar laser ranging (LLR) observations using a green wavelength have suffered an inhomogeneity problem both temporally and spatially. This paper reports on the impl…
The homogeneous internal structure of CM-like asteroid (41) Daphne
B. Carry, F. Vachier, J. Berthier +48
Context. CM-like asteroids (Ch and Cgh classes) are a major population within the broader C-complex, encompassing about 10% of the mass of the main asteroid belt. Their internal st…
Gravity tests with INPOP planetary ephemerides
A. Fienga, J. Laskar, P. Kuchynka +3
In this paper, we present several gravity tests made in using the last INPOP08 planetary ephemerides. We first propose two methods to estimate the PPN parameter and its correl…
Planetary ephemerides and gravity tests in the solar system
A. Fienga
We review here the tests of fundamental physics based on the dynamics of solar system objects.
Constraint on the Yukawa suppression of the Newtonian potential from the planetary ephemeris INPOP19a
L. Bernus, O. Minazzoli, A. Fienga +4
We use the latest solution of the ephemeris INPOP (19a) in order to improve our previous constraint on the existence of a Yukawa suppression to the Newtonian potential, generically…
Gaia Data Release 3: Summary of the content and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. Vallenari, A. G. A. Brown +453
We present the third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, GDR3. The GDR3 catalogue is the outcome of the processing of raw data collected with the Gaia instrum…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3)
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, L. Lindegren +448
Gaia-CRF3 is the celestial reference frame for positions and proper motions in the third release of data from the Gaia mission, Gaia DR3 (and for the early third release, Gaia EDR3…
The new lunar ephemeris INPOP17a and its application to fundamental physics
V. Viswanathan, A. Fienga, O. Minazzoli +3
We present here the new INPOP lunar ephemeris, INPOP17a. This ephemeris is obtained through the numerical integration of the equations of motion and of rotation of the Moon, fitted…
Gaia Data Release 1: Astrometry - one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes
L. Lindegren, U. Lammers, U. Bastian +80
Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) contains astrometric results for more than 1 billion stars brighter than magnitude 20.7 based on observations collected by the Gaia satellite during…
Electron density distribution and solar plasma correction of radio signals using MGS, MEX and VEX spacecraft navigation data and its application to planetary ephemerides
A. K. Verma, A. Fienga, J. Laskar +3
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Express (MEX), and Venus Express (VEX) experienced several superior solar conjunctions. These conjunctions cause severe degradations of radio s…
Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, R. Drimmel, M. Romero-Gomez +453
With the most recent Gaia data release the number of sources with complete 6D phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars, while ste…
The INPOP10a planetary ephemeris and its applications in fundamental physics
A. Fienga, J. Laskar, P. Kuchynka +5
Compared to the previous INPOP versions, the INPOP10a planetary and lunar ephemeris has several improvements. For the planets of our solar system, no big change was brought in the…
Gaia-DR2 asteroid observations and INPOP planetary ephemerides
P. Deram, A. Fienga, A. K. Verma +2
We used the INPOP19a planetary ephemerides to perform the orbital adjustment of 14099 asteroids based on Gaia-DR2 observations, and compare for 23 of them the resulting orbits to r…
Tests of GR with INPOP15a planetary ephemerides: estimations of possible supplementary advances of perihelia for Mercury and Saturn
A. Fienga, J. Laskar, H. Manche +1
Planetary ephemerides are a good tool for studying general relativity at the scale of our solar system. We present here new evaluations of advances of perihelia for Mercury and Sat…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420
We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…
Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588
Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…
Constraints on the location of a possible 9th planet derived from the Cassini data
A. Fienga, J. Laskar, H. Manche +1
To explain the unusual distribution of Kuiper Belt objects, several authors have advocated the existence of a super-Earth planet in the outer solar system. It has recently been pro…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds
Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, L. Chemin +417
We compare the Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 performances in the study of the Magellanic Clouds and show the clear improvements in precision and accuracy in the new release. We also show…
Planetary and Lunar ephemerides, INPOP10A
A. Fienga, H. Manche, P. Kuchynka +2
The Planetary and Lunar ephemerides INPOP10a version has several improvements in the fitting process, the data sets used in the fit and in the general features of the solution. No…
Evolution of INPOP planetary ephemerides and Bepi-Colombo simulations
A. Fienga, L. Bigot, D. Mary +5
We give here a detailed description of the latest INPOP planetary ephemerides INPOP20a. We test the sensitivity of the Sun oblateness determination obtained with INPOP to different…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The astrometric solution
L. Lindegren, S. A. Klioner, J. Hernández +94
Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gai…
La2010: A new orbital solution for the long term motion of the Earth
J. Laskar, A. Fienga, M. Gastineau +1
We present here a new solution for the astronomical computation of the orbital motion of the Earth spanning from 0 to -250 Myr. The main improvement with respect to the previous nu…
INPOP new release: INPOP13b
A. Fienga, H. Manche, J. Laskar +2
Based on the use of MESSENGER radiotracking data in the construction of new Mercury ephemerides (Verma et al. 2014) a new planetary ephemerides INPOP13b was built including Mercury…
INPOP08, a 4-D planetary ephemeris: From asteroid and time-scale computations to ESA Mars Express and Venus Express contributions
A. Fienga, J. Laskar, T. Morley +6
The latest version of the planetary ephemerides developed at the Paris Observatory and at the Besancon Observatory is presented here. INPOP08 is a 4-dimension ephemeris since it pr…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A Brown, A. Vallenari +423
We present the early installment of the third Gaia data release, Gaia EDR3, consisting of astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21, complemented…
INPOP Planetary ephemerides and applications in the frame of the BepiColombo mission including new constraints on the graviton mass and dilaton parameters
A. Fienga, L. Bernus, O. Minazzoli +7
We present here the new results obtained with the INPOP planetary ephemerides and BepiColombo radio-science simulations. We give new constraints for the classic General Relativity…
Constraining the mass of the graviton with the planetary ephemeris INPOP
L. Bernus, O. Minazzoli, A. Fienga +3
We use the planetary ephemeris INPOP17b to constrain the mass of the graviton in the Newtonian limit. We also give an interpretation of this result for a specific case of fifth for…
Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
Gaia Collaboration, F. van Leeuwen, A. Vallenari +589
Context. The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the position and photometry,…
Interests of a new lunar laser instrumentation on the ESO NTT Telescope
A. Fienga, C. Courde, J. M. Torre +9
We analyze the impact of the installation of a lunar laser ranging device on the NTT 3.6m ESO telescope. With such an instrument, the scientific communities of fundamental physics…
Constraining massless dilaton theory at Solar system scales with the planetary ephemeris INPOP
L. Bernus, O. Minazzoli, A. Fienga +5
We expose the phenomenology of the massless dilaton theory in the Solar system for a non universal quadratic coupling between the scalar field which represents the dilaton, and the…
A ring as a model of the main belt in planetary ephemerides
P. Kuchynka, J. Laskar, A. Fienga +1
We assess the ability of a solid ring to model a global perturbation induced by several thousands of main-belt asteroids. The ring is first studied in an analytical framework that…