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Improved Bounds on Non-Luminous Matter in Solar OrbitWe improve, using a larger set of observations including Voyager 2 Neptune flyby data, previous bounds on the amount of dark matter (DM) trapped in a spherically symmetric distribution about the sun. We bound DM by noting that such a distribution would increase the effective mass of the sun as seen by the outer planets and by finding the uncertainty in that effective mass for Uranus and Neptune in fits to the JPL Developmental Ephermeris residuals, including optical data and those two planets' Voyager 2 flybys. We extend our previous procedure by fitting more parameters of the developmental ephemerides. Additionally, we present here the values for Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 Jupiter ranging normal points (and incorporate these data as well).
Document ID
20060042166
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Anderson, J.
Lau, E.
Krisher, T.
Dicus, D.
Rosenbaum, D.
Teplitz, V.
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1994
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
dark matter Deep Space Network DSN Voyager Neptune Uranus solar mass

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