作者
Jun Luo,Yanzheng Bai,Lin Cai,Bin Cao,Weiming Chen,Yu Chen,De-Cong Cheng,Yanwei Ding,Hui‐Zong Duan,Xingyu Gou,Chao-Zheng Gu,Defeng Gu,Zi-Qi He,Shuang Hu,Yuexin Hu,Xiangqing Huang,Qinghua Jiang,Yuan‐Ze Jiang,Honggang Li,Hongyin Li,Jia Li,Ming Li,Zhu Li,Zhuxi Li,Yurong Liang,Fang-Jie Liao,Yan-Chong Liu,Li Liu,Peibo Liu,Xuhui Liu,Yuan Liu,Xiong-Fei Lu,Yan Luo,Jianwei Mei,Min Ming,Shaobo Qu,Ding-Yin Tan,Mi Tang,Liangcheng Tu,Chengrui Wang,Fengbin Wang,Guanfang Wang,Jian Wang,Lijiao Wang,Xudong Wang,Ran Wei,Shuchao Wu,Chunyu Xiao,Meng-Zhe Xie,Xiao-Shi Xu,Liang Yang,Ming-Lin Yang,Shan-Qing Yang,Hsien‐Chi Yeh,Jianbo Yu,Lihua Zhang,Menghao Zhao,Zebing Zhou
摘要
The TianQin-1 satellite (TQ-1), which is the first technology demonstration satellite for the TianQin project, was launched on 20 December 2019. The first round of experiment had been carried out from 21 December 2019 until 1 April 2020. The residual acceleration of the satellite is found to be about $1\times10^{-10}~{\rm m}/{\rm s}^{2}/{\rm Hz}^{1/2}$ at $0.1~{\rm Hz}\,$ and about $5\times10^{-11}~{\rm m}/{\rm s}^{2}/{\rm Hz}^{1/2}$ at $0.05~{\rm Hz}\,$, measured by an inertial sensor with a sensitivity of $5\times10^{-12}~{\rm m}/{\rm s}^{2}/{\rm Hz}^{1/2}$ at $0.1~{\rm Hz}\,$. The micro-Newton thrusters has demonstrated a thrust resolution of $0.1~\mu{\rm N}$ and a thrust noise of $0.3~\mu{\rm N}/{\rm Hz}^{1/2}$ at $0.1~{\rm Hz}$. The residual noise of the satellite with drag-free control is $3\times10^{-9}~{\rm m}/{\rm s}^{2}/{\rm Hz}^{1/2}$ at $0.1~{\rm Hz}\,$. The noise level of the optical readout system is about $30~{\rm pm}/{\rm Hz}^{1/2}$ at $0.1~{\rm Hz}\,$. The temperature stability at temperature monitoring position is controlled to be about $\pm3~{\rm mK}$ per orbit, and the mismatch between the center-of-mass of the satellite and that of the test mass is measured with a precision of better than $0.1~{\rm mm}$.