Resolving Pioneers' anomaly

Authors: Qasem Exirifard

(Submitted on 6 Aug 2007)

Abstract: The Pioneers 10 and 11, spacecrafts deployed to explore the outer solar system, are reported to have experienced a constant anomalous acceleration toward the Sun. I contend that a generally covariant correction is the cause of the observed Pioneers' anomaly. I include the dominant generic corrections of the pure gravity before computing their corrections to the space-time geometry around the Sun. Afterwards I will find the correction describing the Pioneers' anomaly. I observe that the covariant resolution of the Pioneers' anomaly challenges the common sense to the gravitational interactions among the elementary particles. I then notice that it predicts an anomaly for satellites orbiting the earth.

Comments: 7 pages

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

Report number: IPM/P-2007/028

Cite as: arXiv:0708.0662v1 [gr-qc]

Submission history

From: Qasem Exirifard [view email]

[v1] Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:27:02 GMT (8kb)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0662