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The flyby anomaly: A multivariate analysis approach

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arxiv 1701.05735 v1 pith:ULBMQ3WW submitted 2017-01-20 astro-ph.EP

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The flyby anomaly is the unexpected variation of the asymptotic post-encounter velocity of a spacecraft with respect to the pre-encounter velocity as it performs a slingshot manoeuvre. This effect has been detected in, at least, six flybys of the Earth but it has not appeared in other recent flybys. In order to find a pattern in these, apparently contradictory, data several phenomenological formulas have been proposed but all have failed to predict a new result in agreement with the observations. In this paper we use a multivariate dimensional analysis approach to propose a fitting of the data in terms of the local parameters at perigee, as it would occur if this anomaly comes from an unknown fifth force with latitude dependence. Under this assumption, we estimate the range of this force around 300 km.

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  1. Flyby Anomaly in the Variation Principle of General Relativity

    gr-qc 2024-11 reject novelty 3.0 of 10

    The claimed GR derivation of the flyby anomaly is invalid: the diagonalized metric is not the Lense-Thirring metric and the final formula is tuned to match the empirical law.

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