Evaluation of the transportable atom gravimeter HUST-QG

Yao Yao Xu, Jia Feng Cui, Kun Qi, Le Le Chen, Xiao Bing Deng, Qin Luo, Heng Zhang, Yu Jie Tan, Cheng Gang Shao, Min Kang Zhou, Xiao Chun Duan, Zhong Kun Hu

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Abstract

Atom interferometry provides an important method of high-precision absolute gravity measurement. As absolute gravimeters, various systematic errors of atom gravimeters have been identified and evaluated. Here a comprehensive evaluation of systematic errors for a transportable atom gravimeter Huazhong University of Science and Technology-Quantum Gravimeter (HUST-QG) is presented. HUST-QG exhibited a short-term sensitivity of 24 μGal Hz−1/2 and a combined uncertainty of 3 μGal. The operation and evaluation of HUST-QG for transportable gravity measurements during the 10th International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters are discussed. And the degree of equivalence for HUST-QG in this comparison is 1.3 μGal, which supports our evaluation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number055001
JournalMetrologia
Volume59
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2022
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We thank Shu-Qing Wu, Wei Zhuang, and Shao-Kai Wang for performing the comparison at the 10th ICAG; and Wei Tian, Wei-Min Zhang, Ze-Huang Lu, Liang-Cheng Tu, and Ze-Bing Zhou for instructive discussions. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11727809, 11625417, 11904114, and 11574099).

Keywords

  • absolute gravimeter comparison
  • atom gravimeter
  • error evaluation

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