Measurement of the speed-of-light perturbation of free-fall absolute gravimeters

Metrologia

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Rothleitner, Ch ^a,c   Niebauer, T M ^b   Francis, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b Micro g LaCoste Inc   (United States)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

absolute gravimeter; Doppler shift; gravimetry; watt balance

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER; CONSTANT ACCELERATION; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DOPPLER FORMULA; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; TIME DEPENDENT VELOCITY; WATT BALANCE;

GRAVIMETERS;

EID: 84901718648     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/51/3/L9     Document Type: Article

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