MEASUREMENT OF DRAGGING, OF INERTIAL FRAMES AND GRAVITOMAGNETIC FIELDUSING LASER-RANGED SATELLITES

Authors
CIUFOLINI I LUCCHESI D VESPE F MANDIELLO A
Citation
I. Ciufolini et al., MEASUREMENT OF DRAGGING, OF INERTIAL FRAMES AND GRAVITOMAGNETIC FIELDUSING LASER-RANGED SATELLITES, Nuovo cimento della Società Italiana di Fisica. A. Nuclei, particles and fields, 109(5), 1996, pp. 575-590
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Società Italiana di Fisica. A. Nuclei, particles and fields → ACNP
ISSN journal
11241861
Volume
109
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
575 - 590
Database
ISI
SICI code
1124-1861(1996)109:5<575:MODOIF>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
By analysing the observations of the orbits of the laser-ranged satell ites LAGEOS and LAGEOS II, using the program GEODYN, we have obtained the first direct measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect, or dragging of inertial frames, and the first direct experimental evidence for th e gravitomagnetic field. The accuracy of our measurement is of about 3 0%.