Probing the gravitational redshift effect with VLBI observations of the RadioAstron satellite
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1 Probing the gravitational redshift effect with VLBI observations of the RadioAstron satellite Dmitry Litvinov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute for the RadioAstron gravitational redshift experiment team N. Bartel, A. Beasley, K. Belousov, M. Bietenholz, A. Biriukov, W. Cannon, R. Carman, G. Cimò, C. Gwinn, D. Duev, R. Haas, L. Gurvits, A. Gusev, M. Johnson, B. Kanevsky, V. Kauts, G. Kopelyansky, A. Kovalenko, G. Kronschnabl, V. Kulagin, M. Lindqvist, J. Lovell, J. McCallum, G. Molera, A. Neidhardt, L. Plank, C. Plötz, S. Pogrebenko, N. Porayko, J. Quick, V. Rudenko, S. Sazankov, A. Smirnov, V. Soglasnov, K. Sokolovsky, V. Stepanyants, J. Yang, M. Zakhvatkin 1 st International Workshop on VLBI Observations of Near-field Targets Bonn University, 5-6 October 2016
2 Basics Equivalence principle Daily time dilation ISS RadioAstron gravitation 4 ms 58 ms gravitation + kinematics 25 ms 57 ms D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational general relativity redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field 13 th VLBI EVN Workshop, Symposium, Bonn, 2016 [2]
3 Basics Equivalence principle Daily time dilation ISS RadioAstron gravitation 4 ms 58 ms gravitation + kinematics 25 ms 57 ms D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational general relativity redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field 13 th VLBI EVN Workshop, Symposium, Bonn, 2016 [3]
4 Motivation Grand Unification: violation parameter Possible mechanisms: Local Position Invariance broken (dark matter halo, etc.) Violation magnitude: difficult to predict D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [4]
5 Gravity Probe A (1976) Experiment duration Apogee 1 hr 58 min 10,000 km Grav. redshift variation DU/c H-maser stability s y at 100 s de: accuracy R. F. C. Vessot (right) and M. Levine (left) with the VLG-10 H-maser D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [5]
6 RadioAstron: a radio astronomy space-vlbi mission D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [6]
7 RadioAstron: a radio astronomy space-vlbi mission VCH-1010 H-maser D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [7]
8 Grav. redshift modulation: = Prerequisites Allan deviation Orbit: 8 10 d RA: Better H-maser stability: s y = at 1 hr 1,000 80,000 km Target accuracy of the test: de = D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [8]
9 RadioAstron: communications links and ground terminals Green Bank tracking station (USA) Links: 8.4 GHz down (tone) 15 GHz down (data) 7.2 GHz up (tone) S-band T&C +SLR Pushchino tracking station (Russia) D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [9]
10 Experiment concept Idea: Compare the on-board H-maser frequency with that of H-masers at various radio astronomy observatories Gb, Ef, Hh, On, Sv, VLBA, Wn, Wz, Yg, Zc + tracking stations D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [10]
11 Problem: nonrelativistic Doppler For a spacecraft: measured Nonrelativistic Doppler: 1) Compensation: switching between 1-way and 2-way modes 2) Calculation: co-located SLR tracking Yg, Hh (experimental) 2 nd order kinematic terms orbit media, instrumental effects meteo, GPS, WVR, telemetry, models, calibration D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [11]
12 Relative frequency offset Systematics: drift On-board H-maser frequency drift rel. to the Green Bank H-maser Date Drift: D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [12]
13 Frequency measurement Phase, rad RadioAstron is the celestial source PRIDE (subset) Phase residual (Ef, raks10ae) Phase-stopped signal spectrum (Ef, raks10ae, 2015/02/15) Time, UTC (2015/02/15) Allan deviation D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [13]
14 Low-distance tracking problems Stopped-phase signal spectrum Svetloe Wettzell 20m Wettzell 12m (Wn) Yarragadee Residual phase Svetloe Wettzell 20m Wettzell 12m (Wn) Yarragadee New antennas struggle from saturation D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [14]
15 Problem: nonrelativistic Doppler In principle: 1-way down-link synchronized to on-board H-maser and 2-way phase-locked loop synchronized to ground H-maser 1 st order Doppler shift in 2-way link is twice that in 1-way link 1-way H-maser 2-way Coherent Biriukov et al., Astron. Rep D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [15]
16 Residual frequency, Hz Interleaved measurements mode 2016/05/28 EL053E Onsala 247, ,000 km 1-way 2-way Session time, s D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [16]
17 Residual frequency, Hz Interleaved measurements mode 2016/05/29 EL053G Onsala 54,000 42,000 km 1-way 2-way Session time, s D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [17]
18 Summary RadioAstron gravitational redshift experiment: An experiment to test general relativity with accuracy Accuracy achieved: (GP-A: ) Better account of systematic effects (troposphere, temperature, magnetic field sensitivity, etc.) Co-located SLR+VLBI mode Competition: Galileo 5 & 6: (3 4) 10-5, 2017 ACES: , 2018 STE-QUEST, E-GRIP, E-GRASP D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [18]
19 Thank you! D. Litvinov. Probing gravitational redshift with RadioAstron 1 st Near-field VLBI Workshop, Bonn, 2016 [19]
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