Filtration of the gravitational frequency shift in the radio links communication with Earth's satellite

TL;DR

This paper investigates a method to improve the measurement accuracy of gravitational red shift using radio links between Earth's satellite Radioastron and ground stations, aiming to test Einstein's theory more precisely.

Contribution

It proposes a specific method for extracting the gravitational red shift effect tailored to the technical features of the Radioastron mission.

Findings

Potential for increased measurement accuracy through data accumulation

Method tailored to Radioastron's orbit and communication system

Feasibility of testing Einstein's predictions with higher precision

Abstract

At present the Radioastron (RA) Earth's satellite having very elliptic orbit is used for probing of the gravitational red shift effect [1, 2]. Objective of this test consists in the enhancing accuracy of measurement to check the correspondence of value of the effect to Einsten's theory at one order of value better then in was done in the GP-A experiment [3]. There are two H-masers in disposal, one at the board of satellite and other at the Land Tracking Station (LTS). One can compare its mutual time rate using communication radio links between RA and LTS. In contrast with the GP-A experiment there is a possibility of measurement repetition and accumulation of data in the process of RA orbital circulation. In principle it might be resulted in the increasing of the integral accuracy. In this paper we investigate the achievable accuracy in the frame of particular method of the red shift extraction associated with the techical specific of RA mission.