Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
Aug 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989nascp3046..211m&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Relativistic Gravitational Experiments in Space p 211-212 (SEE N90-19940 12-90)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
Equivalence, Gravitational Fields, Gravitational Waves, Gravity Gradiometers, Squid (Detectors), Detection, Earth Gravitation, Finite Difference Theory, Relativity, Superconductivity, Tensors
Scientific paper
The equivalence principle prohibits the distinction of gravity from acceleration by a local measurement. However, by making a differential measurement of acceleration over a baseline, platform accelerations can be cancelled and gravity gradients detected. In an in-line superconducting gravity gradiometer, this differencing is accomplished with two spring-mass accelerometers in which the proof masses are confined to motion in a single degree of freedom and are coupled together by superconducting circuits. Platform motions appear as common mode accelerations and are cancelled by adjusting the ratio of two persistent currents in the sensing circuit. The sensing circuit is connected to a commercial SQUID amplifier to sense changes in the persistent currents generated by differential accelerations, i.e., gravity gradients. A three-axis gravity gradiometer is formed by mounting six accelerometers on the faces of a precision cube, with the accelerometers on opposite faces of the cube forming one of three in-line gradiometers. A dedicated satellite mission for mapping the earth's gravity field is an important one. Additional scientific goals are a test of the inverse square law to a part in 10(exp 10) at 100 km, and a test of the Lense-Thirring effect by detecting the relativistic gravity magnetic terms in the gravity gradient tensor for the earth.
Moody Vol M.
Paik Ho Jung
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