Testing gravitational redshift based on microwave frequency links onboard China Space Station

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Wenbin Shen Pengfei Zhang Ziyu Shen Rui Xu Xiao Sun Mostafa Ashry Abdelrahim Ruby Wei Xu Kuangchao Wu Yifan Wu An Ning Lei Wang Lihong Li Chenghui Cai

摘要： In 2022 China Space Station (CSS) will be equipped with atomic clocks and optical clocks with stabilities of $2 \times 10^{-16}$ and $8 \times 10^{-18}$, respectively, which provides an excellent opportunity to test gravitational redshift (GR) with higher accuracy than previous results. Based on high-precise frequency links between CSS and a ground station, we formulated a model and provided simulation experiments to test GR. Simulation results suggest that this method could test the GR at the accuracy level of $(0.27 \pm 2.15) \times10^{-7}$, more than two orders in magnitude higher than the result of the experiment of a hydrogen clock on board a flying rocket more than 40 years ago.

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