GRACE Follow-On 激光测距干涉仪的在轨性能
天体物理仪器与方法
2019-07-23 v1 地球物理
摘要
重力恢复与气候实验（GRACE）Follow-On 任务上的激光测距干涉仪（LRI）提供了远程航天器之间首次激光干涉测距，二者相距约 220 km。将激光频率锁定到腔参考并在远程航天器间建立 5 自由度双向激光链路的自主控制首次尝试即获成功。基于差分波前传感的有源光束指向补偿了航天器姿态波动。LRI 已连续运行超过 50 天且无相位跟踪中断，并显示出与基于微波的主测距仪器类似的偏置测距，但在 100 mHz 以上傅里叶频率处噪声水平为 而低得多。
引用
@article{arxiv.1907.00104,
title = {On orbit performance of the GRACE Follow-On Laser Ranging Interferometer},
author = {Klaus Abich and Claus Braxmaier and Martin Gohlke and Josep Sanjuan and Alexander Abramovici and Brian Bachman Okihiro and David C. Barr and Maxime P. Bize and Michael J. Burke and Ken C. Clark and Glenn de Vine and Jeffrey A. Dickson and Serge Dubovitsky and William M. Folkner and Samuel Francis and Martin S. Gilbert and Mark Katsumura and William Klipstein and Kameron Larsen and Carl Christian Liebe and Jehhal Liu and Kirk McKenzie and Phillip R. Morton and Alexander T. Murray and Don J. Nguyen and Joshua A. Ravich and Daniel Shaddock and Robert Spero and Gary Spiers and Andrew Sutton and Joseph Trinh and Duo Wang and Rabi T. Wang and Brent Ware and Christopher Woodruff and Bengie Amparan and Mike A. Davis and James Howell and Micah Kruger and Lynette Lobmeyer and Robert Pierce and Gretchen Reavis and Michael Sileo and Michelle Stephens and Andreas Baatzsch and Christian Dahl and Katrin Dahl and Frank Gilles and Philipp Hager and Mark Herding and Marina Kaufer and Kolja Nicklaus and Kai Voss and Christina Bogan and Karsten Danzmann and Germán Fernández Barranco and Gerhard Heinzel and Alexander Koch and Christoph Mahrdt and Malte Misfeldt and Vitali Müller and Jens Reiche and Daniel Schütze and Benjamin Sheard and Gunnar Stede and Henry Wegener and Andreas Eckardt and Burghardt Guenther and Thomas Mangoldt and Bernd Zender and Thomas Ester and Frank Heine and Christoph Seiter and Steve Windisch and Reinhold Flatscher and Frank Flechtner and Nicolas Grossard and Jerome Hauden and Martin Hinz and Thomas Leikert and Marcus Zimmermann and Anton Lebeda and Arnold Lebeda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00104},
year = {2019}
}