Simulation model for shapiro time delay and light deflection experiments

• Authors: Abhijit Biswas , Krishnan Mani
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The time delay experiment proposed by I.I. Shapiro in 1964 and conducted in the seventies was the most precise experiment of general relativity until that time. Further experimentation has improved the accuracy level of both the time delay and the light deflection experiments. A simulation model is proposed that involves only a simple mass and time transformation factor involving velocity of light. The light deflection and the time delay experiments are numerically simulated using this model that does not use the general relativistic equations. The computed values presented in this paper compare well with recent levels of accuracy of their respective experimental results.

Keywords

EN

time delay; light deflection; Newtonian deflection; relativistic deflection; numerical relativity; 04.25.Dm; 04.90.+e

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 687-697

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2004

online

1 - 12 - 2004

Contributors

author

Abhijit Biswas

• Department of Physics, Godoy Center for Scientific Research, 700 008, Calcutta, India

author

Krishnan Mani

• Department of Physics, Godoy Center for Scientific Research, 700 008, Calcutta, India

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/BF02475569