Improvements of the MPG-2 transportable absolute ballistic gravimeter

Metrologia

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 575-582

  Hu, H ^a   Svitlov, S ^d   Rothleitner, C ^b   Schafer J ^c   Zhang, J ^d   Wang, L J ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER; FALLING BODIES; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; RECOIL EFFECT; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY BUDGET;

BUDGET CONTROL; DEMAGNETIZATION; GRAVIMETERS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957860274     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/47/5/008     Document Type: Article

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