Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0409615

From: Kris Krogh [view email]
Date (v1): Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:25:53 GMT (10kb)
Date (revised v2): Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:22:24 GMT (10kb)
Date (revised v3): Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:59:19 GMT (11kb)

Origin of the Blueshift in Signals from Pioneer 10 and 11

Authors: Kris Krogh
Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX2e, no figures; minor text revisions, added appendix on a new perturbation of planetary orbits

A previous paper [1] introduced a quantum-mechanical theory of gravity, and showed it agrees with the standard experimental tests of general relativity. Doppler tracking signals returned by the Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes offer an additional test. Analysis by Anderson, Laing, Lau, Liu, Neito and Turyshev [2] finds a persistent blueshift, equivalent to an extra acceleration of the probes toward the Sun. While unexplained by general relativity or prevailing cosmology, it's shown this effect is predicted by the quantum-mechanical alternative.

http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409615 , 11kb