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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 75, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.082001
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We calculate the perifocus precession of Keplerian orbits under the influence of arbitrary central-force perturbations. Our result is in the form of a one-dimensional integral that is straightforward to evaluate numerically. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our formula for the case of the Yukawa potential. We obtain analytic results for potentials of the form V(r)=alpha r(n) and V(r) = alpha ln(r/lambda) in terms of the hypergeometric function F-2(1)(1/2 - n/2, 1- n/2: 2: e(2)), where e is the eccentricity. Our results reproduce the known general relativistic (n = -3), constant force (n=1), and cosmological constant (n=2) precession formulas. Planetary perihelion precessions are often used to constrain the sizes of hypothetical new weak forces-our results allow for more precise, and often stronger, constraints on such proposed new forces.
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