Gravity tests in the solar system and the Pioneer anomaly

Abstract

We build up a new phenomenological framework associated with a minimal generalization of Einsteinian gravitation theory. When linearity, stationarity and isotropy are assumed, tests in the solar system are characterized by two potentials which generalize respectively the Newton potential and the parameter $\gamma$ of parametrized post-Newtonian formalism. The new framework seems to have the capability to account for the Pioneer anomaly besides other gravity tests.

5 pages. Accepted version, to appear in Modern Physics Letters A

References in corpus (4)

• The Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity (LATOR) Mission
• The Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity Mission
• Testing general relativity by micro-arcsecond global astrometry
• The Pioneer anomaly in the context of the braneworld scenario

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