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most citedMICROSCOPE mission: final results of the test of the Equivalence Principle

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 15 cited

MICROSCOPE Mission scenario, ground segment and data processing

Manuel Rodrigues, Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris +9

Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) to a precision of requires a quantity of data that give enough confidence on the final result: ideally, the longer the measu…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map

Ivan Alonso, Cristiano Alpigiani, Brett Altschul +246

We summarize the discussions at a virtual Community Workshop on Cold Atoms in Space concerning the status of cold atom technologies, the prospective scientific and societal opportu…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

MICROSCOPE: systematic errors

Manuel Rodrigues, Pierre Touboul1, Gilles Metris +19

The MICROSCOPE mission aims to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) in orbit with an unprecedented precision of 10 on the Eötvös parameter thanks to electrostatic acce…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 18 cited

MICROSCOPE instrument in-flight characterization

Ratana Chhun, Emilie Hardy, Manuel Rodrigues +11

Since the MICROSCOPE instrument aims to measure accelerations as low as a few 10\,m\,s and cannot operate on ground, it was obvious to have a large time dedicated to…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

The local dark sector. Probing gravitation's low-acceleration frontier and dark matter in the Solar System neighborhood

Joel Bergé, Laura Baudis, Philippe Brax +18

We speculate on the development and availability of new innovative propulsion techniques in the 2040s, that will allow us to fly a spacecraft outside the Solar System (at 150 AU an…