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Main Authors: Feleppa, Fabiano, de Graaf, Welmoed Marit, Brax, Philippe, Lambiase, Gaetano
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08448
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author Feleppa, Fabiano
de Graaf, Welmoed Marit
Brax, Philippe
Lambiase, Gaetano
author_facet Feleppa, Fabiano
de Graaf, Welmoed Marit
Brax, Philippe
Lambiase, Gaetano
contents We test screened dark energy with near-Earth, space-based measurements. In a post-Newtonian framework, we compute leading corrections to geodetic precession (Gravity Probe B), LAGEOS-2 pericenter advance, and the Sagnac delay in a prospective orbital configuration, yielding bounds on chameleon, symmetron, and dilaton models. LAGEOS-2 sets the strongest Earth-orbit limits on symmetron and dilaton, while a Sagnac setup at the projected sensitivity of state-of-the-art space clocks gives the tightest chameleon constraint. These results show that low-density, space-based experiments sensitively probe screened dark energy and exclude previously allowed parameter space. Notably, at nuclear-clock precision $\mathcal{O}\big(10^{-19}\big)$, a Sagnac test would exclude the entire chameleon parameter space considered.
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spellingShingle Bounds on screened dark energy from near-Earth space-based measurements
Feleppa, Fabiano
de Graaf, Welmoed Marit
Brax, Philippe
Lambiase, Gaetano
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We test screened dark energy with near-Earth, space-based measurements. In a post-Newtonian framework, we compute leading corrections to geodetic precession (Gravity Probe B), LAGEOS-2 pericenter advance, and the Sagnac delay in a prospective orbital configuration, yielding bounds on chameleon, symmetron, and dilaton models. LAGEOS-2 sets the strongest Earth-orbit limits on symmetron and dilaton, while a Sagnac setup at the projected sensitivity of state-of-the-art space clocks gives the tightest chameleon constraint. These results show that low-density, space-based experiments sensitively probe screened dark energy and exclude previously allowed parameter space. Notably, at nuclear-clock precision $\mathcal{O}\big(10^{-19}\big)$, a Sagnac test would exclude the entire chameleon parameter space considered.
title Bounds on screened dark energy from near-Earth space-based measurements
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08448