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高精度航天器跟踪试验中天线相位中心的运动效应

The antenna phase center motion effect in high-accuracy spacecraft tracking experiments

D. A. Litvinov, N. V. Nunes, A. I. Filetkin, N. Bartel, L. I. Gurvits, G. Molera Calves, V. N. Rudenko, M. V. Zakhvatkin

摘要:

我们提出了一个改进的模型,考虑到非完美的天线指向的高增益机械可操纵地面和航天器安装的天线的天线相位中心运动的影响。利用RadioAstron航天器的跟踪数据,我们表明,我们的模型可以导致高达$2\times10^{-14}$的分数频移方面的影响的计算值的校正,这是有意义的高精度航天器跟踪实验。根据航天器轨道和天线参数的不同,地面和空间天线由于相位中心运动效应引起的总分数频移可能超过$1\times10^{-11}$。我们还分析了计算值的误差的影响,并发现它可以作为$4\times10^{-14}$大,由于航天器天线轴的位置,地面天线轴偏移和未对准,和其他的不确定性。最后,我们提出了一种方法,以减少地面和空间天线相位中心运动的影响,由几个数量级,例如,对于RadioAstron低于$1\times10^{-16}$,通过跟踪航天器同时在单向下行链路和双向锁相环模式,即使用重力探测器A配置的通信链路。

英文摘要:

We present an improved model for the antenna phase center motion effect for high-gain mechanically steerable ground-based and spacecraft-mounted antennas that takes into account non-perfect antenna pointing. Using tracking data of the RadioAstron spacecraft we show that our model can result in a correction of the computed value of the effect of up to $2\times10^{-14}$ in terms of the fractional frequency shift, which is significant for high-accuracy spacecraft tracking experiments. The total fractional frequency shift due to the phase center motion effect can exceed $1\times10^{-11}$ both for the ground and space antennas depending on the spacecraft orbit and antenna parameters. We also analyze the error in the computed value of the effect and find that it can be as large as $4\times10^{-14}$ due to uncertainties in the spacecraft antenna axis position, ground antenna axis offset and misalignment, and others. Finally, we present a way to reduce both the ground and space antenna phase center motion effects by several orders of magnitude, e.g. for RadioAstron to below $1\times10^{-16}$, by tracking the spacecraft simultaneously in the one-way downlink and two-way phase-locked loop modes, i.e. using the Gravity Probe A configuration of the communications links.

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