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在太空中展示被困离子原子钟
E A Burt1, J D Prestage2, R L Tjoelker2
1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. eric.a.burt@jpl.nasa.gov.
Nature
|July 1, 2021
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科学领域:
- 原子钟对于太空导航和基础物理研究至关重要.
- 捕获的离子原子钟技术在地面应用中取得了显著的进步.
- 太空运行给原子钟带来了性能挑战.
背景情况:
- 原子钟对于航行和物理学的精确计时至关重要.
- 目前的太空原子钟由于恶劣的太空环境而面临限制.
- 捕获的离子原子钟提供卓越的性能, 但很难在太空中部署.
研究的目的:
- 为了证明在太空中运行的被困离子原子钟的性能.
- 评估先进原子钟的可行性,
- 评估基于太空的原子钟的稳定性和漂移.
主要方法:
- 使用被困离子原子钟设计,适用于太空操作.
- 在轨道上对深空原子钟进行了12个月的测试.
- 测量了短期和长期的频率稳定性和每日偏移.
主要成果:
- 太空中原子钟的长期稳定性为3×10−15.
- 这一时钟每天的推移估计为3.0~0.7×10-16.
- 它的性能超过了当前的太空时钟.
结论:
- 太空中的捕获离子原子钟表表现出了显著的稳定性和低漂移.
- 这项技术克服了太空应用的先前性能限制.
- 通过现场测量信号延迟时间,实现了深空导航.
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