A new laser-ranged satellite for General Relativity and space geodesy: II. Monte Carlo simulations and covariance analyses of the LARES 2 experiment

作者：Ciufolini Ignazio^*; Pavlis Erricos C; Sindoni Giampiero; Ries John C; Paolozzi Antonio; Matzner Richard; Koenig Rolf; Paris Claudio

来源：European Physical Journal Plus, 2017, 132(8): 337.

DOI：10.1140/epjp/i2017-11636-0

In the previous paper we have introduced the LARES 2 space experiment. The LARES 2 laser-ranged satellite is planned for a launch in 2019 with the new VEGA C launch vehicle of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), ESA and ELV. The main objectives of the LARES 2 experiment are accurate measurements of General Relativity, gravitational and fundamental physics and accurate determinations in space geodesy and geodynamics. In particular LARES 2 is aimed to achieve a very accurate test of frame-dragging, an intriguing phenomenon predicted by General Relativity. Here we report the results of Monte Carlo simulations and covariance analyses fully confirming an error budget of a few parts in one thousand in the measurement of frame-dragging with LARES 2 as calculated in our previous paper.

• 出版日期2017-8-4