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Viking relativity experiment - Verification of signal retardation by solar gravity
The Astrophysical Journal1979Vol. 234, pp. L219–L219
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R. D. Reasenberg, I. I. Shapiro, P. E. MacNeil, R. Goldstein, Julian Breidenthal, J. P. Brenkle, D. L. Cain, T. M. Kaufman, T. A. Komarek, A. I. Zygielbaum
Abstract
Analysis of 14 months of data obtained from radio ranging to the Viking spacecraft verified, to an estimated accuracy of 0.1%, the prediction of the general theory of relativity that the round-trip times of light signals traveling between the earth and Mars are increased by the direct effect of solar gravity. The corresponding value for the metric parameter gamma is 1.000 plus or minus 0.002, where the quoted uncertainty, twice the formal standard deviation, allows for possible systematic errors.
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