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In 2022 China Space Station (CSS) will be equipped with atomic clocks and optical clocks with stabilities of $2 \times 10^{-16}$ and $8 \times 10^{-18}$, respectively, which provides an excellent opportunity to test gravitational redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Wenbin Shen , Pengfei Zhang , Ziyu Shen , Rui Xu , Xiao Sun , Mostafa Ashry , Abdelrahim Ruby , Wei Xu , Kuangchao Wu , Yifan Wu , An Ning , Lei Wang , Lihong Li , Chenghui Cai

General relativity (GR) is a highly successful theory that describes gravity as a geometric phenomenon. The gravitational redshift, a classic test of GR, can potentially be violated in alternative gravity theories, and experimental tests on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Cheng-Gang Qin , Tong Liu , Xiao-Yi Dai , Peng-Bin Guo , Weisheng Huang , Xiang-Pei Liu , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming space-based optical telescope designed to co-orbit with the Chinese Space Station. With a planned slitless spectroscopic survey spanning a broad wavelength range of $255-1000$nm and…

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a clock at a higher gravitational potential will tick faster than an otherwise identical clock at a lower potential, an effect known as the gravitational redshift. Here we perform a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Xin Zheng , Jonathan Dolde , Matthew C. Cambria , Hong Ming Lim , Shimon Kolkowitz

The China Space Station (CSS) is currently in orbit and carries the high-precision optical atomic clock with stability of approximately $2.0 \times 10^{-15} / \sqrt{\tau}$ in its experiment module. We have developed a model to determine the…

We report on a new test of the gravitational redshift and thus of local position invariance, an integral part of the Einstein equivalence principle, which is the foundation of general relativity and all metric theories of gravitation. We…

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing (GGSL) is a powerful probe for the formation and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, while the sample size of GGSLs leads to considerable uncertainties and potential bias. The China Space Station…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Nan Li , Rui Li , Yun Chen , Keyi Ding , Huanyuan Shan , Hu Zhan , Xin Zhang , Wei Du , Shuo Cao

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu

The combination of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing (GGL) and Redshift Space Distortion of galaxy clustering (RSD) is a privileged technique to test General Relativity predictions, and break degeneracies between the growth rate of structure parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 E. Jullo , S. de la Torre , M. -C. Cousinou , S. Escoffier , C. Giocoli , R. Benton Metcalf , J. Comparat , H. -Y. Shan , M. Makler , J. -P. Kneib , F. Prada , G. Yepes , S. Gottlöber

Gravitational redshift is an important prediction of General Relativity (GR). We propose a novel dual one-way frequency comparison scheme for gravitational redshift tests in satellite-ground clock experiments. Unlike conventional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Cheng-Gang Qin , Tong Liu , Yang Li , Qi-Long Gong , Qin Li , Zhi-Yu Ma

The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a major science project of the Space Application System of the China Manned Space Program. This survey is planned to perform both photometric imaging and slitless spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-23 Ye Cao , Yan Gong , Xian-Min Meng , Cong K. Xu , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Ran Li , Dezi Liu , Yongquan Xue , Li Cao , Xiyang Fu , Xin Zhang , Shen Wang , Hu Zhan

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is China's upcoming next-generation ultraviolet and optical survey telescope, with imaging resolution capabilities comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). In this study, we utilized a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 Yuchong Luo , Anhe Sha , Jian Ren , Xin Zhang , Xianmin Meng , Nan Li , F. S. Liu

A measurement of the redshift drift constitutes a model-independent probe of fundamental cosmology. Several approaches are being considered to make the necessary observations, using (i) the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), (ii) the Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Fulvio Melia

We investigate the performance of the upcoming ACES (Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space) space mission in terms of its primary scientific objective, the test of the gravitational redshift. Whilst the ultimate performance of that test is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Etienne Savalle , Christine Guerlin , Pacôme Delva , Frédéric Meynadier , Christophe le Poncin-Lafitte , Peter Wolf

Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) has the capability to conduct slitless spectroscopic survey simultaneously with photometric survey. The spectroscopic survey will measure slitless spectra, potentially providing more accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Xin Zhang , Nan Li , Xian-Min Meng , Xuelei Chen , Run Wen , Yunkun Han , Hu Zou , Xian Zhong Zheng , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Pengjie Zhang

A unique test of general relativity is possible with the space radio telescope RadioAstron. The ultra-stable on-board hydrogen maser frequency standard and the highly eccentric orbit make RadioAstron an ideal instrument for probing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 D. Litvinov , N. Bartel , K. Belousov , M. Bietenholz , A. Biriukov , A. Fionov , A. Gusev , V. Kauts , A. Kovalenko , V. Kulagin , N. Poraiko , V. Rudenko

This paper discusses new Fundamental physics experiment that will test relativistic gravity at the accuracy better than the effects of the second order in the gravitational field strength, ~G^2. The Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Slava G. Turyshev , Michael Shao , Kenneth Nordtvedt

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) spectroscopic survey aims to deliver high-quality low-resolution ($R > 200$) slitless spectra for hundreds of millions of targets down to a limiting magnitude of about 21 mag, distributed within a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Haibo Yuan , Dingshan Deng , Yang Sun

The unknown nature of dark energy motivates continued cosmological tests of large-scale gravitational physics. We present a new consistency check based on the relative amplitude of non-relativistic galaxy peculiar motions, measured via…

This paper discusses new fundamental physics experiment to test relativistic gravity at the accuracy better than the effects of the 2nd order in the gravitational field strength. The Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity (LATOR) mission uses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Slava G. Turyshev , Michael Shao , Kenneth L. Nordtvedt
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