Relativistic Gravitational Experiments in Space

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface
• Address to the Participants
• Summary of the Meeting
• Bill Fairbank: a Scientist and a Friend
• 1. Tests of Underlying Principles in Gravitational Physics and Their Theoretical Rationale
  • Comments on Long Range Parity Violating Forces
  • Limits on G-Variability From Spin-Down of Radio-Pulsars
  • Nucleosynthesis Constraints on an Extended Jordan–Brans–Dicke Theory
  • Do Cosmic Strings Violate the Equivalence Principle?
  • Mass in the Standard Model
  • Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle
• 2. Frameworks for Testing Gravitational Theories, Present Status of Theory Testing and Future Prospects
  • A New Approach to the General Relativistic N-Body Problem
  • Estimation of Post-Newtonian Parameters from LLR Data
  • Precision Optical Interferometry in Space
  • Testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle with the Stanford Gyro Experiment
  • General Relativity at 75: How Right Was Einstein?
• 3. Rotational Effects in General Relativity, Frame-Dragging and the Geodetic Effect
  • Relativistic Deformation Effects of a Born Rigid Continuum
  • Gravitoelectromagnetism and the Single Gyro
  • The Gyromagnetic Electron Gyroscope and the Superfluid ⁴He Analog of the r.f.SQUID: Towards High Resolution Rotation Measurements
  • The Physics of the LAGEOS-III Gravitomagnetic Experiment: A Summary and an Introduction to the Main Scientific Results of an Italian Study
  • Space Dynamics at the 10–12 M/S² Level
  • Detailed Simulation of the Lageos-3 Measurement of the Lense-Thirring Precession
  • The LAGEOS Along-Track Acceleration: A Review
  • Results from the First Integrated System Tests of the Gravity Probe B Experiment
  • On the Measurement of the Gravitomagnetic Field of the Earth by Gravity Gradiometers
  • Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters
• 4. Experiments and Theory of Gravitational Radiation
  • Michelson Geostationary Gravitational Wave Observatory
  • Searching Gravitational Waves in Roma and Stanford
  • Gravitational Radiation from the Collapse of Rotating Stellar Cores
  • Low-Frequency Sources of Gravitational Waves
• 5. Advanced Technologies: Clocks, Drag-Free and Cryogenics in Space
  • The Merits of Space and Cryogenic Operation in the Gravity Probe B Relativity Gyroscope Mission
  • Measurements of Gravity Gradients in a Freely Falling Platform at Balloon Altitudes
  • New Laser Gyros for Tests of Metric Gravitation Theories
  • Trapped Ion Clocks
  • Noise Attenuators for Gravity Experiments in Space
  • Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer Mission
  • Improvements to Geodesy from Gradiometers and Drag-Free Satellites
  • Gravity Probe B Superfluid Helium Dewar and Probe
  • Past and Future Tests of Relativistic Gravitation with Atomic Clocks
• 6. Classical Gravity
  • Global Topology of the Universe
  • Three Ways How Quantum Physics May Modify General Relativity in Certain Limits
  • Toward a Gauge Field Theory of Gravity
• 7. Considerations in Spacecraft Design, Program Management and the Use of the Columbus Space Station
  • The Aristoteles Mission
  • Post Newtonian Limit of Finsler Space Theories of Gravity and Solar System Tests
  • The Columbus Program and Gravity Science
  • Tethered Systems and Einsteinian Ferquency Shifts
  • Approaches to Spacecraft Design for Relativity Experiments