Frontiers in Relativistic Celestial Mechanics. / Volume 2, : Applications and Experiments / / ed. by Sergei M. Kopeikin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Studies in Mathematical Physics eBook-Package
• MitwirkendeR: Biskupek, Liliane,; Ciufolini, Ignazio,; Delva, Pacôme,; Fienga, Agnes,; Fukushima, Toshio,; Gurzadyan, Vahe,; Hofmann, Franz,; König, Rolf,; Mai, Enrico,; Matzner, Richard,; Müller, Jürgen,; Paolozzi, Antonio,; Paris, Claudio,; Pavlis, Erricos C.,; Penrose, Roger,; Petit, G,; Petit, Gérard,; Ries, John,; Simon, Jean-Louis,; Sindoni, Giampiero,; Teyssandier, Pierre,; Wex, Norbert,; Wolf, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Kopeikin, Sergei M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Studies in Mathematical Physics , 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Relativistic celestial mechanics – investigating the motion celestial bodies under the influence of general relativity – is a major tool of modern experimental gravitational physics. With a wide range of prominent authors from the field, this two-volume series consists of reviews on a multitude of a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• List of contributors
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface
• New tools for determining the light travel time in static, spherically symmetric spacetimes beyond the order G2
• Testing relativistic gravity with radio pulsars
• Lunar laser ranging and relativity
• Dragging of inertial frames, fundamental physics, and satellite laser ranging
• Elliptic functions and elliptic integrals for celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy
• Victor Brumberg and the French school of analytical celestial mechanics
• Atomic time, clocks, and clock comparisons in relativistic spacetime: a review
• References
• Index
• Backmatter