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

. 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 Ge...

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Published in:European physical journal plus 2017-08, Vol.132 (8), p.337, Article 337
Main Authors: Ciufolini, Ignazio, Pavlis, Erricos C., Sindoni, Giampiero, Ries, John C., Paolozzi, Antonio, Matzner, Richard, Koenig, Rolf, Paris, Claudio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Applied and Technical Physics
Atomic
Complex Systems
Condensed Matter Physics
Covariance
Error analysis
Experiments
Geodesy
Geodetics
Geodynamics
Gravity
Lasers
Launch vehicles
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Molecular
Monte Carlo simulation
Optical and Plasma Physics
Orbits
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Radiation
Regular Article
Relativity
Satellites
Simulation
Theoretical
Theory of relativity
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Summary:. 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.
ISSN:2190-5444
2190-5444
DOI:10.1140/epjp/i2017-11636-0