Associate Professor of Physics
UMC
| Office: | 322 Physics Building |
| Phone: | 573-882-6210 |
| E-mail: | kopeikins@missouri.edu |
| Webpage: | http://web.missouri.edu/ |
| Biographical Information: | Ph.D., Space Research Institute of the Academy of Science USSR, Moscow, 1986 |
Research Interests
Gravity and General Relativity
- Gauge-invariant theory of cosmological perturbations. Cosmological gravitational-wave effects.- Gravitational wave astronomy. Generation, propagation, and detection of gravitational waves by astronomical facilities.
- Cosmological gravitational lenses, cosmic strings, dark matter.
- Relativistic theory of motion of coalescing binary systems.
- Relativistic experimental gravity. Testing alternative theories of gravity in the solar system and beyond.
- Pulsar timing of solitary and binary pulsars. Equations of motion of binary/double pulsars and black holes.
- Theory of stochastic processes having infrared spectral densities and its application to search for low-frequency gravitational waves with pulsar timing technique.
- Relativistic celestial mechanics, astrometry, and geodesy in the solar system.
- The post-Newtonian equations of motion for test particles and extended bodies.
- Fundamental reference frames and time metrology in the solar system. Ephemerides of the solar system bodies.
- Spacecraft deep-space Doppler-tracking measurements. Global positioning system (GPS). Clock's synchronization.
Additional information can be found in my CV. (pdf file)
Selected Publications
Kopeikin S.M and Fomalont
E.B. (2007) Gravimagnetism,
causality, and aberration of gravity in the gravitational light-ray
deflection
experiments, Gen. Rel. Grav., vol. 39, 1583-1624
Kopeikin S.M. (2007) Comment on "The gravitomagnetic
influence on gyroscopes and on the lunar orbit", Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.
98, id. 229001
Kopeikin S.M., Polnarev, A.G., Schäfer, G. and Vlasov,
I.Yu. (2007) Gravimagnetic effect of the barycentric motion of the Sun
and
determination of the post-Newtonian parameter gamma in the Cassini
experiment,
Phys. Lett. A., vol. 367, 276-280
Kopeikin S.M. and
Makarov V.V. (2007) Gravitational bending of light by planetary
multipoles and
its measurement with microarcsecond astronomical interferometers, Phys.
Rev.
D, vol. 75, id. 062002
Kopeikin S.M.
(2007) Relativistic Reference Frames for Astrometry and Navigation in
the Solar
System, NEW TRENDS IN ASTRODYNAMICS AND APPLICATIONS III. AIP
Conference
Proceedings, vol. 886, 268-283
Kopeikin S.M and Fomalont E.B. (2006) Aberration and the
Fundamental Speed of Gravity in the Jovian Deflection Experiment,
Found. of
Phys., vol. 36, 1244-1285
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/IAU31/fomalont.ppt
http://astrometric.sai.msu.ru/1mas_22Kopejkin.ppt
http://astrometric.sai.msu.ru/1mas_30Kopejkin.ppt
http://www-hep.phys.cmu.edu/Tests_of_Gravity-Kopeikin.ppt
http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/mwrm14/proceedings/Vlasov.pdf
http://web.physics.ucla.edu/quantum_to_cosmos/q2c08/Sergei_Kopeikin.ppt
http://www.astro.amu.edu.pl/ILRS_Workshop_2008/presentations/2_tue/sess3/1_Kopeikin.ppt
http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/Colloquium/presentations/080528Kopeikin.PPT