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 language | English |
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Article number | 055001 |
Journal | Metrologia |
Volume | 59 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
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