Experimental techniques for gyroscope performance enhancement for the Gravity Probe B relativity mission

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The Gravity Probe B relativity mission experiment is designed to measure the frame dragging and geodetic relativistic precessions in a 650 km polar orbit. We describe some of the advanced experimental techniques used to achieve the required gyroscope accuracy of between 0.05 and 0264-9381/13/11A/026/img1. The subjects discussed are: (i) the development of high-precision gyroscopes with drift rates of less than 0264-9381/13/11A/026/img2, (ii) a low-temperature bake-out procedure resulting in a helium pressure of less than 0264-9381/13/11A/026/img3 at 2.5 K, (iii) a read-out system using DC SQUID magnetometers with a noise figure of 0264-9381/13/11A/026/img4 at 5 mHz and (iv) AC and DC magnetic shielding techniques which produce an AC attenuation factor in excess of 0264-9381/13/11A/026/img5 and a residual DC field of less than 0264-9381/13/11A/026/img6.

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