Precision measurement of the relativistic Doppler shift of an accelerated system

Author

Rothleitner, C. ; Niebauer, T.M. ; Francis, Oceana

Author_Institution

Phys.-Tech. Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

24-29 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

240

Lastpage

241

Abstract

We report on a direct measurement of the relativistic Doppler shift with a Mach-Zehnder type interferometer, where the object mirror is subject to an accelerated motion. The measurement was realized with a commercial free-fall absolute gravimeter FG5X, which is usually used to measure the local acceleration due to gravity, g. The second order term of the Doppler shift has been measured with a relative uncertainty of 1.1 × 10^-3.

Keywords

Doppler measurement; Doppler shift; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; acceleration measurement; gravimeters; measurement uncertainty; FG5X; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; accelerated system; commercial free-fall absolute gravimeter; gravity; motion acceleration measurement; precision measurement; relative uncertainty; relativistic Doppler shift measurement; Acceleration; Doppler shift; Geophysical measurements; Gravity; Gravity measurement; Measurement by laser beam; Time-frequency analysis; Relativistic Doppler shift; acceleration due to gravity; free-fall; gravimeter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2014), 2014 Conference on

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

ISSN

0589-1485

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5205-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2014.6898348

Filename

6898348