Influence of celestial parameters on Mercury's perihelion shift
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Influence of celestial parameters on Mercury's perihelion shift
Original language description
This paper considers the influence of numerical values of the celestial parameters on the indeterminacy of the perihelion shift of Mercury's orbit. This shift is thought to be one of the fundamental tests of the validity of the general theory of relativity. In the current (astro)physical community, it is generally accepted that the additional relativistic perihelion shift of Mercury is the difference between its observed perihelion shift and the one predicted by Newtonian mechanics, and that this difference equals 43... per century. However, as it results from the subtraction of two quite inexact numbers of almost equal magnitude, it is subject to cancellation errors. As such, the above accepted value is highly uncertain and may not correspond to reality. We present a thorough numerical analysis of this problem.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Bulgarian astronomical journal
ISSN
1313-2709
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
BG - BULGARIA
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
41-56
UT code for WoS article
000413258000005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85032797822