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Is it possible to reveal a slight chronological change in frequency of Voyager 1 and 2 signals due to Hubble flow effect?

Physics Asked on June 26, 2021

Is it possible to reveal a slight change in frequency of Voyager 1 and 2 signals due to Hubble flow effect? As both are about 1 light-day from Earth and as it is unbelievebly small distance compared to 1 megaparsec (the Hubble flow effect is about 70 km/h/Mparsec) can nevertheless the change in signal frequency recieved a lot years ago and the present signal be revealed by modern recievers?

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No. There is a Hubble flow, but no Hubble flow effect, i.e., nothing that makes objects tend to move with the Hubble flow. Matter moves in that way on large scales because some historical process (perhaps inflation) gave it that velocity distribution 13.7 billion years ago. Some of that matter later collapsed into the Sun and Earth and so on. Voyager 1 and 2 were launched from Earth with known velocities into a known distribution of matter, and their motion since then is purely due to their interaction with that matter. There is no extra effect from the process that ended 13.7 billion years ago.

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Answered by benrg on June 26, 2021

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