Acceleration disturbances due to local gravity gradients in ASTROD I

Details Acceleration disturbances due to local gravity gradients in ASTROD I Acceleration disturbances due to local gravity gradients in ASTROD I

2005-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0510045v2

J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 32 (2006) 186-191

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

6 pages, presented at the 6th Edoardo Amaldi Conference (Okinawa Japan, June 2005); to be published in Journal of Physics: Con

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/32/1/028

The Astrodynamical Space Test of Relativity using Optical Devices (ASTROD) mission consists of three spacecraft in separate solar orbits and carries out laser interferometric ranging. ASTROD aims at testing relativistic gravity, measuring the solar system and detecting gravitational waves. Because of the larger arm length, the sensitivity of ASTROD to gravitational waves is estimated to be about 30 times better than Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) in the frequency range lower than about 0.1 mHz. ASTROD I is a simple version of ASTROD, employing one spacecraft in a solar orbit. It is the first step for ASTROD and serves as a technology demonstration mission for ASTROD. In addition, several scientific results are expected in the ASTROD I experiment. The required acceleration noise level of ASTROD I is 10^-13 m s^-2 Hz^{-1/2} at the frequency of 0.1 mHz. In this paper, we focus on local gravity gradient noise that could be one of the largest acceleration disturbances in the ASTROD I experiment. We have carried out gravitational modelling for the current test-mass design and simplified configurations of ASTROD I by using an analytical method and the Monte Carlo method. Our analyses can be applied to figure out the optimal designs of the test mass and the constructing materials of the spacecraft, and the configuration of compensation mass to reduce local gravity gradients.

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