The Galileo solar redshift experiment

Details The Galileo solar redshift experiment The Galileo solar redshift experiment

Apr 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993phrvl..70.2213k&link_type=abstract

Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007), vol. 70, no. 15, p. 2213-2216.

Physics

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Clocks, Crystal Oscillators, Frequency Measurement, Gravitational Effects, Red Shift, Solar Gravitation, Frequency Shift, Interplanetary Spacecraft, Relativistic Effects, Relativistic Theory

Scientific paper

From the October 1989 launch to the first December 1990 earth gravity assist, we regularly obtained frequency measurements of the spacecraft clock - an ultrastable crystal oscillator (USO) supplied by Frequency Electronics, Inc. The solar gravitational redshift in frequency was readily detectable, and because of the unique variations in heliocentric distance we could separate the general relativistic effects from the USO's intrinsic frequency variations. We have verified the total frequency shift predicted by general relativity to 0.5 percent accuracy, and the solar gravitational redshift to 1 percent accuracy.

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