Equivalence of Active and Passive Gravitational Mass Tested with Lunar Laser Ranging

verfasst von
Vishwa Vijay Singh, Jürgen Müller, Liliane Biskupek, Eva Hackmann, Claus Lämmerzahl
Abstract

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) measures the distance between observatories on Earth and retro-reflectors on the Moon since 1969. In this Letter, we study the possible violation of the equivalence of passive and active gravitational mass (ma/mp), for aluminum (Al) and iron (Fe), using LLR data. Our new limit of 3.9×10-14 is about 100 times better than that of Bartlett and Van Buren [Equivalence of Active and Passive Gravitational Mass Using the Moon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 21 (1986)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.57.21] reflecting the benefit of the many years of LLR data.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Erdmessung
QuantumFrontiers
Externe Organisation(en)
Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrt­technologie und Mikro­gravitation (ZARM)
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Band
131
ISSN
0031-9007
Publikationsdatum
14.07.2023
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.09407 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.021401 (Zugang: Offen)