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A Test of Gravitational Theories Including Torsion with the BepiColombo Radio Science Experiment

Schettino, Giulia; Serra, Daniele; Tommei, Giacomo +1 more

Within the framework of the relativity experiment of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, which was launched at the end of 2018, we describe how a test of alternative theories of gravity, including torsion can be set up. Following March et al. (2011), the effects of a non-vanishing spacetime torsion have been parameterized by three torsion…