Does a gravimeter sense gravitation?

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992mgeo...17..365j&link_type=abstract

Manuscr. Geod., Vol. 17, No. 6, p. 365 - 372

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The answer to the question of the title is a qualified yes: not directly, nor always, nor completely. A review of the measurement principles of gravimeters, accelerometers, and gravity gradiometers shows that, strictly speaking, only the gravity gradiometer senses the presence of a gravitational field. Only under particular circumstances can measurements made with a gravimeter (accelerometer) be related to gravitation. On the other hand, for some space-borne gravimetry systems, the accelerometer's fundamental insensitivity to gravitation is of particular value.

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