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On the speed of gravity and the jupiter/quasar measurement

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I present the theory and analysis behind the experiment by Fomalont and Kopeikin involving Jupiter and quasar J0842 + 1845 that purported to measure the speed of gravity. The computation of the vJ/c correction to the gravitational time delay difference relevant to the experiment is derived, where vJ is the speed of Jupiter as measured from Earth. Since the vJ/c corrections are too small to have been measured in the Jupiter/quasar experiment, it is impossible that the speed of gravity was extracted from the data, and I explain what went wrong with the data analysis. Finally, mistakes are shown in papers by Fomalont and Kopeikin intended to rebut my work and the work of others

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Available from INIS in electronic form; Also available from OSTI as DE00836974; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/836974-1vpZ41/native/

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URL
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/836974-1vpZ41/native/;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
26 p.
Report number
LBNL--55463

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
36034620
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DATA ANALYSIS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; JUPITER PLANET; QUASARS; TIME DELAY; VELOCITY
Descriptors DEC
COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; PLANETS

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Contract/Grant/Project number
AC03-76SF00098
Notes
Submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics D: Volume 13, No.9; Journal Publication Date: 10/2004
Funding organization
USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Division of High Energy Physics (United States)