Orbit Design for Space Atom-Interferometer AIGSO
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-07-14 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
Atom Interferometric Gravitational-wave (GW) Space Observatory (AIGSO) is a mission concept mainly aimed at the middle-frequency (0.1 Hz - 10 Hz) GW detection. AIGSO proposes to have three spacecraft in linear formation with extension of 10 km. The three spacecraft need to maintain 5 km + 5 km constant arm-length formation. In this study, we address the issue of orbit design and thruster requirement. The acceleration to maintain the formation can be designed to be less than 30 pm/s and the thruster requirement is in the 30 nN range. Application to other arm-length-maintaining missions is also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1905.00600,
title = {Orbit Design for Space Atom-Interferometer AIGSO},
author = {Gang Wang and Dongfeng Gao and Wei-Tou Ni and Jin Wang and Mingsheng Zhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00600},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
14 pages, 8 figures, accepted by IJMPD