New General Relativistic Contribution to Mercury’s Perihelion Advance
New General Relativistic Contribution to Mercury’s Perihelion Advance
We point out the existence of a new general relativistic contribution to the perihelion advance of Mercury that, while smaller than the contributions arising from the solar quadrupole moment and angular momentum, is 100 times larger than the second-post-Newtonian contribution. It arises in part from relativistic "cross-terms" in the post-Newtonian …