Testing General Relativity with the ACES Mission

2006/10/16 by C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, Poncin-Lafitte, C. Le, S. Lambert +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0610463

proceedings of the SF2A 2006

arxiv created 2006/10/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The new generation of atomic clocks will reach unprecedented uncertainties in frequency of 10^-18. In order to prepare space missions such as ACES, we compute all relativistic frequency shifts detectable during this mission in the case of a clock aboard the International Space Station.

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