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Orbital motions have always been used to test gravitational theories which, from time to time, have challenged the then-dominant paradigms. This book provides a unified treatment for calculating a wide variety of orbital effects due to general relativity and modified models of gravity, to its first and second post-Newtonian orders, in full generality. It gives explicit results valid for arbitrary orbital configurations and spin axes of the sources, without a priori simplifying assumptions on either the orbital eccentricity or inclination. These general results apply to a range of phenomena, from Earth's artificial satellites to the S-stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre to binary and triple pulsars, exoplanets, and interplanetary probes. Readers will become acquainted with working out a variety of orbital effects other than the time-honoured perihelion precession, designing their own space-based tests, performing effective sensitivity analyses, and assessing realistic error budgets.

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Lorenzo Iorio is qualified as a Full Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Astrophysics at the Italian Ministry of University and Research. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Bari in 2001. His research focuses on gravitational physics, in particular, experimental/observational tests of general relativity and modified models of gravity. He is author of more than 250 publications and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Universe.

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