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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/010
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cosmological constant experiments; gravity
In this paper we study the effects of f( R) theories of gravity on Solar System gravitational tests. In particular, starting from an exact solution of the field equation in vacuum, in the Palatini formalism, we work out the effects that the modi. cations to the Newtonian potential would induce in the Keplerian orbital elements of the Solar System planets, and compare them with the latest results in planetary orbit determination from the EPM2004 ephemerides. It turns out that the longitudes of perihelia and the mean longitudes are affected by secular precessions. We obtain the resulting best estimate of the parameter k which, being simply related to the scalar curvature, measures the non-linearity of the gravitational theory. We use our results to constrain the cosmological constant and show how f( R) functions can be constrained, in principle. What we obtain suggests, in agreement with other recent papers, that the Solar System experiments are not effective for setting such constraints, if compared to the cosmologically relevant values.
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