Observational evidence for travelling wave modes bearing distance proportional shifts

TL;DR

This paper presents evidence that travelling wave modes with distance-proportional shifts explain discrepancies in spacecraft flyby tracking data, linking these phenomena to special relativity and cosmological effects.

Contribution

It introduces a new interpretation of flyby anomalies as travelling wave solutions related to chirp d'Alembertian waves and spectral rotation effects.

Findings

Discrepancies in radar and Doppler data are explained by travel-time lags.

Lags are linked to chirp wave solutions and spectral rotation.

Results suggest a connection to relativistic and cosmological phenomena.

Abstract

Discrepancies of range between the Space Surveillance Network radars and the Deep Space Network in tracking the 1998 earth flyby of NEAR, and between ESA's Doppler and range data in Rosetta's 2009 flyby, reveal a consistent excess delay, or lag, equal to instantaneous one-way travel time in the telemetry signals. These lags readily explain all details of the flyby anomaly, and are shown to be symptoms of chirp d'Alembertian travelling wave solutions, relating to traditional sinusoidal waves by a rotation of the spectral decomposition due to the clock acceleration caused by the Doppler rates during the flybys. The lags thus relate to special relativity, but yield distance proportional shifts like those of cosmology at short range.