Misalignment and resonance torques and their treatment in the GP-B data analysis

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 148, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 383-395

  Keiser, G M ^a   Kolodziejczak, J ^b   Silbergleit, A S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental tests of gravitational theories; Gravity probe B; Gyroscope torques; Patch effect

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; DRIFT RATES; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GRAVITATIONAL THEORY; GRAVITY PROBE-B; PATCH EFFECT; ROLL AXIS; SCIENCE-DATA; SPIN-AXIS;

ALIGNMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; GRAVITATION; GYROSCOPES; PROBES; RESONANCE; SPIN DYNAMICS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

TORQUE;

EID: 75749096268     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-009-9516-7     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. R.J. Adler A.S. Silbergleit 2000 General treatment of orbiting gyroscope precession Int. J. Theor. Phys. 39 5 1291 1316 0971.83007 10.1023/A:1003638820234 1783508
2. S. Buchman, J.P. Turneaure et al. (2009, to be published)
3. T.W. Darling, Electric fields on metal surfaces at low temperatures, in School of Physics (University of Melbourne, Parkville, 1989), p. 88
4. W. de Sitter 1916 On Einstein's theory of gravitation and its astronomical consequences Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 77 155 184 1916MNRAS..77..155D
5. C.W.F. Everitt et al., Gravity Probe B data analysis - status and potential for improved acuracy of scientific results. Space Sci. Rev. (2009, this issue)
6. M. Heifetz et al., The Gravity Probe B data analysis filtering approach. Space Sci. Rev. (2009)
7. J. Lense H. Thirring 1918 On the influence of the proper rotations of central bodies on the motions of planets and moons according to Einstein's theory of gravitation Zeitschr. Phys. 19 156 English Translation: B. Mashhoon, F.W. Hehl et al., On the gravitational effects of rotating masses: the lense-thirring papers. Gen. Relativ. Gravitat. 16, 711-750 (1984)
8. B. Muhlfelder et al., GP-B systematic error. Space Sci. Rev. (2009, this issue)
9. R. Reasenberg 1972 Filtering with perfectly correlated measurement noise AIAA J. 10 7 942 943 10.2514/3.50255 1972AIAAJ..10..942R
10. M.E. Rose, Elementary Theory of Angular Momentum (Dover, New York, 1995)
11. A.S. Silbergleit, M.I. Heifetz, A.S. Krechetov, Model of starlight deflection and parallax for the GP-B data reduction. Gravity Probe B Document S0393, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2001
12. A.S. Silbergleit et al., Polhode motion, trapped flux, and the GP-B science data analysis. Space Sci. Rev. (2009, this issue)
13. C.C. Speake 1996 Forces and force gradients due to patch fields and contact-potential differences Class. Quantum Gravity 13 A291 A297 0865.35128 10.1088/0264-9381/13/11A/039 1996CQGra..13..291S