1. Probing the gravitational redshift with an Earth-orbiting satellite
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M. V. Zakhvatkin, K. G. Belousov, A. Pollard, Dmitry A. Duev, K. Moore, Michael Lindqvist, G.D. Kopelyansky, Leonid I. Gurvits, J. F. H. Quick, C. Moore, A. M. Kutkin, Jun Yang, Sergei Pogrebenko, V. L. Kauts, Uwe Bach, A. V. Alakoz, A. I. Smirnov, B. Z. Kanevsky, Norbert Bartel, Dominic Dirkx, Kirill Sokolovsky, G. Granato, Rüdiger Haas, Jamie McCallum, C. Courde, Victor V. Kulagin, Alexander Neidhardt, Christian Plötz, James E. J. Lovell, R. Carman, Michael Bietenholz, Gert Herold, N. K. Porayko, Giuseppe Cimo, A. V. Belonenko, G. Molera Calvés, V. A. Stepan’yants, A. V. Kovalenko, A. V. Biriukov, V. N. Rudenko, Gerhard Kronschnabl, H. Mariey, P. de Vicente, A. V. Gusev, A. Kahlon, A. I. Filetkin, D. A. Litvinov, J. M. Torre, Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])
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Atomic clocks ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Orbital eccentricity ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ,Astrophysics ,RadioAstron ,01 natural sciences ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology ,symbols.namesake ,0103 physical sciences ,Gravity Probe A ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,Equivalence principle ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Physics ,Equivalence Principle ,Astronomy ,Hydrogen maser ,Atomic clock ,symbols ,[PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc] ,Satellite ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Doppler effect ,Gravitational redshift - Abstract
We present an approach to testing the gravitational redshift effect using the RadioAstron satellite. The experiment is based on a modification of the Gravity Probe A scheme of nonrelativistic Doppler compensation and benefits from the highly eccentric orbit and ultra-stable atomic hydrogen maser frequency standard of the RadioAstron satellite. Using the presented techniques we expect to reach an accuracy of the gravitational redshift test of order $10^{-5}$, a magnitude better than that of Gravity Probe A. Data processing is ongoing, our preliminary results agree with the validity of the Einstein Equivalence Principle., Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters A
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- 2018