Solid and ocean tides and the detection of some gravitomagnetic effects
arXiv:gr-qc/0011022 · doi:10.1142/9789812810021_0014
Abstract
The detection of some tiny gravitomagnetic effects in the field of the Earth by means of artificial satellites is a very demanding task because of the various other perturbing forces of gravitational and non-gravitational origin acting upon them. Among the gravitational perturbations a relevant role is played by the Earth solid and ocean tides. In this communication I outline their effects on the detection of the Lense-Thirring drag of the orbits of LAGEOS and LAGEOS II, currently analyzed, and the proposed GP-C experiment devoted to the measurement of the clock effect.
LaTeX file, no figures, 6 pages, Talk given at EREs2000 (Valladolid, Spain, 6-9 September 2000); to be published in Proc. Spanish Relativity Meeting, edited by J.-F. Pascual-Sánchez, L. Floría, A. San Miguel, and F. Vicente (World Scientific, 2001)