Abstract
The study of post-Einsteinian metric extensions of general relativity (GR), which preserve the metric interpretation of gravity while considering metrics which may differ from that predicted by GR, is pushed one step further. We give a complete description of radar ranging and Doppler tracking in terms of the time delay affecting an electromagnetic signal travelling between the Earth and a remote probe. Results of previous publications concerning the Pioneer anomaly are corrected and an annually modulated anomaly is predicted besides the secular anomaly. Their correlation is shown to play an important role when extracting reliable information from Pioneer observations. The formalism developed here provides a basis for a quantitative analysis of the Pioneer data, in order to assess whether extended metric theories can be the appropriate description of gravity in the solar system.
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