5 papers
Geometrical and Optical Design of the GUEST Laser-Ranged Test Masses for the Detection of Gravitational Waves in the Hz range
Dario Vetrano, Giada Bargiacchi, Nicolò Burzillà +5
The GUEST (Gravitational Universe Exploration with Satellite Tracking) mission aims at detecting gravitational waves in the yet almost unexplored Hz frequency range through high…
GUEST: Gravitational Universe Exploration with Satellite Tracking. A passive satellite laser-ranging mission for the dark gravitational Universe
Diego Blas, Aurélien Hees, F. Javier Atapuerca +78
GUEST is a space mission concept whose central objective is the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) in the microhertz band -- a physics-rich frequency window that no other prese…
NovaMoon: A Strategic Lunar Reference Station for Positioning, Timing, and Largely Enhanced Science in the Earth-Moon System
Serena Molli, Agnès Fienga, Pascale Defraigne +82
The renewed interest in lunar exploration and the development of future lunar communication and navigation services highlight the need for a precise, stable, and interoperable geod…
Cosmological and lunar laser ranging constraints on evolving dark energy in a nonminimally coupled curvature-matter gravity model
Riccardo March, Miguel Barroso Varela, Orfeu Bertolami +3
We analyze a cosmological solution to the field equations of a modified gravity model where curvature and matter are nonminimally coupled. The current Universe's accelerated expans…
Equivalence principle violation in nonminimally coupled gravity and constraints from Lunar Laser Ranging
Riccardo March, Orfeu Bertolami, Marco Muccino +1
We analyze the dynamics of the Sun-Earth-Moon system in the context of a particular class of theories of gravity where curvature and matter are nonminimally coupled (NMC). These th…