Detection of the gravitomagnetic clock effect

Abstract

The essence of the gravitomagnetic clock effect is properly defined showing that its origin is in the topology of world lines with closed space projections. It is shown that, in weak field approximation and for a spherically symmetric central body, the loss of synchrony between two clocks counter-rotating along a circular geodesic is proportional to the angular momentum of the source of the gravitational field. Numerical estimates are presented for objects within the solar system. The less unfavorable situation is found around Jupiter.

14 pages; Latex. To be published on Classical and Quantum Gravity

References in corpus (2)

• General relativistic corrections to the Sagnac effect
• On a New Non-Geometric Element in Gravity

Cited by in corpus (27)

• Phenomenology of the Lense-Thirring effect in the Solar System
• On the gravitomagnetic clock effect
• Gravimagnetism, Causality, and Aberration of Gravity in the Gravitational Light-Ray Deflection Experiments
• Photon bunching in a rotating reference frame
• Gravitomagnetism and Relative Observer Clock Effects
• Nonlocal Gravitomagnetism
• Generalized gravitomagnetic clock effect
• Gravitomagnetic Helicity
• The twin paradox and Mach's principle
• Post-Keplerian corrections to the orbital periods of a two-body system and their measurability
• A Gravitomagnetic Effect on the Orbit of a Test Body due to the Earth's Variable Angular Momentum
• Prospects for testing the inverse-square law and gravitomagnetism using quantum interference
• Gravitomagnetism, clocks and geometry
• Angular momentum effects in weak gravitational fields
• Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics
• Angular momentum effects in Michelson-Morley type experiments
• TELEPENSOUTH project: Measurement of the Earth gravitomagnetic field in a terrestrial laboratory
• Gravito-electromagnetic Effects of Massive Rings
• Post-Newtonian orbital effects induced by the mass quadrupole and spin octupole moments of an axisymmetric body
• Numerical solution of Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations for spinning test particles in a Kerr metric
• Time travel, Clock Puzzles and Their Experimental Tests
• Interferometric Visibility in Curved Spacetimes
• The Effect of Stationary Axisymmetric Spacetimes in Interferometric Visibility
• Revisiting the gravitomagnetic clock effect
• Spinning cylinders in general relativity: a canonical form for the Lewis metrics of the Weyl class
• Gravitomagnetic effects for polar circular geodesic orbits around a central rotating body
• Review of the Gravitomagnetic Clock Effect