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          Gravity Probe B: Final Results of a Space Experiment to Test General Relativity
  C. W. F. Everitt,1,* D. B. DeBra,1 B. W. Parkinson,1 J. P. Turneaure,1 J. W. Conklin,1 M. I. Heifetz,1 G. M. Keiser,1
 A. S. Silbergleit,1 T. Holmes,1 J. Kolodziejczak,2 M. Al-Meshari,3 J. C. Mester,1 B. Muhlfelder,1 V. G. Solomonik,1
K. Stahl,1 P. W. Worden, Jr.,1 W. Bencze,1 S. Buchman,1 B. Clarke,1 A. Al-Jadaan,3 H. Al-Jibreen,3 J. Li,1 J. A. Lipa,1
                              J. M. Lockhart,1 B. Al-Suwaidan,3 M. Taber,1 and S. Wang1
                                 1
                                  HEPL, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4085, USA
                          2
                              George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35808, USA
                               3
                                King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
                                         (Received 1 April 2011; published 31 May 2011)
                Gravity Probe B, launched 20 April 2004, is a space experiment testing two fundamental predictions of
             Einstein’s theory of general relativity (GR), the geodetic and frame-dragging effects, by means of
             cryogenic gyroscopes in Earth orbit. Data collection started 28 August 2004 and ended 14
             August 2005. Analysis of the data from all four gyroscopes results in a geodetic drift rate of À6601:8 Æ
             18:3 mas=yr and a frame-dragging drift rate of À37:2 Æ 7:2 mas=yr, to be compared with the
             GR predictions of À6606:1 mas=yr and À39:2 mas=yr, respectively (‘‘mas’’ is milliarcsecond; 1 mas ¼
             4:848 Â 10À9 rad).

             DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.221101                                              PACS numbers: 04.80.Cc



   Introduction.—In 1960, Schiff [1] showed that an ideal          at the equator, eliminates ‘‘seeing’’ in the measurement to
gyroscope in orbit around Earth would undergo two                  the guide star, and vastly reduces torques from suspending
relativistic precessions with respect to a distant inertial        the gyroscope against 1g gravity. Cryogenics brings new
frame: (1) a geodetic drift in the orbit plane due to motion       levels of magnetic shielding, thermal isolation, ultrahigh
through the space-time curved by Earth’s mass and (2) a            vacuum operation, and a uniquely effective gyro readout
frame-dragging due to Earth’s rotation. The geodetic term          based on the London moment in a spinning superconduc-
matches the curvature precession of the Earth-Moon sys-            tor. The two together give the instrument ultimate me-
tem around the Sun given by de Sitter in 1916 [2]. The             chanical stability: in zero g, there is no sag; at zero K,
Schiff frame dragging is related to the dragging of the orbit      there is no thermal distortion.
plane of a satellite around a rotating planet computed by             Essential to GP-B as a controlled physics experiment
Lense and Thirring in 1918 [3]. Frame dragging has im-             was the calibration phase, a 46-day period following the
portant implications for astrophysics; it has been invoked         main science phase designed to set limits on a range of
as a mechanism to drive relativistic jets emanating from           potential disturbing effects and quantify any that might
galactic nuclei [4].                                               prove larger than expected.
   The measurement requires one or more gyroscopes ref-               Experiment description.—The heart of the instrument
erenced to a remote star by an onboard telescope. In the           was a 0.92 m long fused silica structure containing four
642 km polar orbit of Gravity Probe B (GP-B), the two              gyroscopes and a star-tracking telescope mounted in a
effects are at right angles, as in Fig. 1. The predicted           2440 l superfluid helium Dewar operating at 1.8 K. Each
geodetic drift rate is À6606:1 mas=yr; the frame-dragging
drift rate with the chosen star IM Pegasi is À39:2 mas=yr.
   GP-B was conceived as a controlled physics experiment
having submas=yr stability (106 times better than the best
modeled navigation gyroscopes) with numerous built-in
checks and methods of treating systematics. Three prin-
ciples guided the design: (1) make Newtonian gyro drifts
much less than the predicted GR effects; (2) add sensors so
that modeling hinges on physical understanding as against
the ad hoc observational modeling used in navigation
gyroscopes; (3) exploit natural effects such as stellar aber-
ration in calibrating the instrument. Meeting the many
mechanical, optical, and electrical requirements rested on
a conjunction of two technologies, space and cryogenics.
   Operation in space separates the two effects, increases         FIG. 1 (color). Predicted drift rates of GP-B gyroscopes. See
the geodetic effect 12.4 times as compared to a gyroscope          [17] for definitions of WE and NS inertial directions.


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gyroscope comprised a 38 mm diameter niobium-coated                             TABLE I. The seven near zeros.
fused quartz sphere suspended electrically, spun up by           Property                            Requirement    Achieved
helium gas, and read out magnetically. The four were set
in line, two spinning clockwise and two counterclockwise,        Rotor properties
with axes initially aligned to the boresight of the telescope.   Mass unbalance, r=r                 6 Â 10À7     2 À 5 Â 10À7
                                                                 Asphericity (nm)                        55              33
The space vehicle rolled with 77.5 s period about the line of
                                                                 Patch dipole (C Á m)                  10À15         see text
sight to IM Pegasi, which was, however, occulted by Earth
                                                                 Environment
for almost half each orbit (Fig. 1). During occulted periods,    Cross-track acceleration (g)            10À11          10À11
pointing was referenced to star trackers and rate gyros on the   Gas pressure (torr)                     10À11        10À14
outside of the spacecraft. Drag compensation, originated by      Rotor trapped field (G)                  9           0.2–3
Pugh in an independent proposal for an orbiting gyroscope        Mixed
experiment [5], two months prior to Schiff’s Letter, was by a    Rotor electric charge (electrons)        108          108
control system referred to one of the gyroscopes as a proof
mass. Attitude, translational, and roll control authority was
provided by the helium boil-off gas from the Dewar vented        neity and asphericity for the rotor, residual acceleration
through proportional thrusters [6].                              and magnetic field for the environment. The others are gyro
   A gyro readout that did not disturb the spin orientation      electric charge, gas pressure, and patch effect. Six met
was vital. Superconductivity supplied three essentials. The      requirements; the complication discovered during the
spinning rotor generated a London moment equivalent at           calibration phase was the patch effect. Even so, the idea
80 Hz to a uniform 5 Â 10À5 G field aligned with the spin         of seeing relativity in the ‘‘raw’’ data was preserved.
axis. A SQUID magnetometer coupled to a superconduct-            Figure 2 shows the north-south (NS) drifts of the four
ing loop on the gyro housing provided a readout capable of       gyroscopes with no torque modeling. The geodetic drift
detecting a 1 mas change of spin direction in 10 h. Finally,     is visible in all four.
a combination of high permeability and ultralow field                The term ‘‘patch effect’’ [7,8] refers to contact potential
superconducting shields around the instrument with local         differences between crystalline or contamination regions
shields for each gyroscope achieved (1) 240 dB isolation         on a metal surface. Prelaunch studies focused on eddy
from external magnetic disturbances, (2) a limit on trapped      current losses and torques from interaction of the rotor’s
fields in the rotors $1% of the London moment, and                patch-induced electric dipole moment with support volt-
(3) virtual elimination of magnetic torques.                     ages and the housing dipole moment. Far more important
   The gyro readout scale factor Cg ðtÞ was calibrated on        was the on-orbit discovery of forces and torques caused by
orbit against the aberration of starlight. During each half-     interacting patches on the rotor and housing. Put simply,
orbit when IM Pegasi was visible, the telescope pointed          rotor and housing were spherical mechanically; electri-
at its apparent position, and the 20.495 86 arcsec annual        cally, they were not.
and 5.18560 arcsec orbital aberrations, derived, respec-            Three unforeseen effects emerged, differing in detail for
tively, from the JPL Earth ephemeris and GPS orbit data,         each gyroscope: a changing polhode path and two patch
appeared in the gyro readout.                                    effect torques. The changing polhode, originating in a
   An elementary calculation captures the stringencies of        1 pW dissipation of the rotor’s kinetic energy, compli-
the experiment. Consider a spherical, not quite homoge-          cated the Cg determination. Beginning with their body axes
neous rotor under transverse acceleration f. Let r sepa-        arbitrarily oriented and a 2–6 h period, the rotors transi-
rate the centers of mass and support, vs $ 9 m=s be the          tioned to a final 1–4 h period, each spinning nearly about
rotor’s peripheral velocity, 0 the maximum allowed
drift rate 0:1 mas=yr (1:5 Â 10À17 rad=s). Then, we have
r=r  2vs 0 =5f, and mass unbalance requirements
r=r: 6 Â 10À18 on Earth, 6 Â 10À10 in a typical 642 km
altitude satellite, and 6 Â 10À7 for GP-B in 10À11 g drag-
free mode. Without drag compensation, the experiment
would have been impossible. Likewise for an aspherical
homogeneous rotor, the electrical support torques, while
greatly reduced on orbit, only reached the desired level
through a further symmetrizing factor, spacecraft roll. The
net allowed asphericity was 55 nm.
   Aiming for a $0:5 mas=yr mission, we created an error
tree setting limits on 133 disturbing terms, and verified in
advance that all were negligible. Seven ‘‘near zeros’’           FIG. 2 (color). North-south gyro orientation histories with no
(Table I) were central. Four noted already are inhomoge-         modeling of torque or scale factor.


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its maximum inertia axis. The two torques were (1)              Then the ‘‘step over’’ in the NS–WE plane follows, to
a spin-to-roll misalignment torque 200–500Â larger than         lowest order, a Cornu spiral winding out from its initial
predicted from mechanical asphericity, and (2) a ‘‘roll-        direction a day or so before the resonance, moving across,
polhode resonance’’ torque, where the roll averaging men-       then winding back into the new direction, its angular
                                                                                            pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
tioned above would temporarily fail, making a particular        magnitude proportional to a2 þ b2 [9].
                                                                                                m           m
gyroscope axis realign, or step over, by as much as 100 mas        Science data. Determining rNS and rWE requires
in 1–2 days when a high harmonic of its polhode rate came       (1) data from gyroscope, telescope, and roll reference
into resonance with spacecraft roll. The patch effect mis-      signals (preprocessed and synchronized at 2 s intervals),
alignment torque was discovered and quantified during the        with supporting TFM analyses based on separate
calibration phase by commanding the spacecraft to point to      2200 sample=s gyro readout signals, and (2) the measure-
a series of positions at known angles to the guide star.        ment model of Eq. (2) below. The data came from 11
    Remarkably, a key to modeling all three effects was         months of science operations, where spacecraft anomalies
magnetic asphericity: two patterns, magnetic fluxons and         from events such as solar-flare-induced CPU reboots re-
voltage patches, remained locked together in the rotor.         sulted in 10 distinct but connectable data segments. Minor
A process of trapped flux mapping (TFM) allowed exact            interruptions came from calibrations, transient electronics
tracking of the evolving polhode phase and angle needed         noise, and passages through the South Atlantic Anomaly.
for computing both Cg ðtÞ and torques.                             Measurement model. With s, , r , and Cg ðtÞ mean-
                                                                                                     ^ ^
    Further extensive and diversified postscience calibra-       ings already defined, we write SQUID signal zðtÞ as
tions showed no significant disturbing effects other than
the three just discussed.                                       zðtÞ ¼ Cg ðtÞ½ðNS À sNS Þ cosðr þ Þ þ ðWE À sWE Þ
    Data analysis.—Two data analysis methods were used to
                                                                       Â sinðr þ ÞŠ þ bias þ noise;                    (2)
determine and cross-check the relativity results. One,
called ‘‘algebraic,’’ was based on a parameter estimator        (NS À sNS ) and (WE À sWE ) are the NS and WE projec-
utilizing the gyro dynamics and measurement models              tions of the misalignment  ¼  À s, and  is a constant
                                                                                             ~    ^ ^
detailed below. It produced the primary science results         roll phase offset.
(see Tables II and III, and Fig. 3). The other method, called      Trapped flux mapping. The information gained from
‘‘geometric,’’ though currently less precise, neatly elimi-     trapped flux mapping was central to the three main model-
nated the need to model the misalignment torque. This           ing challenges [determining Cg ðtÞ and handling the mis-
torque, being Newtonian, causes drift rates perpendicular       alignment and resonance torques]. The magnetic flux
to the misalignment vector . The drift in that direction is
                               ~                                trapped in each rotor on cooling through its transition
thus a combination of relativistic and Newtonian contribu-      temperature formed a unique, stable fluxon pattern. By
tions, while the drift rate parallel to —when there is no
                                        ~                       fitting to the spin harmonics of the 2200 sample=s data
roll-polhode resonance—is pure relativity. The annual           stream, we constructed detailed maps from which the
variation in misalignment direction allows determination        three-dimensional orientation of each gyroscope could be
of both relativity effects.                                     tracked continuously over $2 Â 109 turns. Rotor spin
    Gyro dynamics. The rNS (geodetic) and rWE (frame-           speed and spin-down rate were determined to 10 nHz and
dragging) drift rates and two patch effect torques [9]          1 pHz= sec , respectively [10]. Crucial for data analysis
connect to the unit vector sðtÞ along the gyro spin axis by
                             ^                                  were (1) polhode phase p ðtÞ and angle 
p ðtÞ both good
the equations of motion:
                                                                to 1 over the 353 days of science, and (2) detailed knowl-
                            X                                   edge of the trapped flux contribution to Cg ðtÞ.
 s NS ¼ rNS þ kðtÞWE þ ðam cosÁm À bm sinÁm Þ;
  _
                            m                                      TFM and Cg ðtÞ. The scale factor Cg ðtÞ to be calibrated
                       X                                        against aberration comes from the London moment ML
sWE
_     ¼ rWE À kðtÞNS þ ðam sinÁm þ bm cosÁm Þ:
                            m
                                                                aligned with the rotor’s spin axis, plus a complex pattern of
                                                                trapped flux $10À2 ML fixed in its body, i.e., CLM þ     g
                                                         (1)
                                                                CTF ðtÞ. To meet the necessary 10À4 accuracy for Cg ðtÞ
                                                                  g
The kðtÞWE , kðtÞNS terms give the misalignment drift         required connecting data from $5200 successive guide star
rates, WE , NS being the components of the misalignment       valid half-orbits enabled by TFM.
vector  ¼  À s, and kðtÞ the polhode-dependent torque
        ~     ^ ^                                                  TFM and resonance torques. The role of TFM in
coefficient,  is the unit vector along the spacecraft roll
             ^                                                  computing the resonance torque was even more remark-
axis. The resonance torques are governed by the third term      able. Solving Eq. (1) required precise knowledge of p ðtÞ
of Eq. (1) where Ám ðtÞ ¼ r ðtÞ À mp ðtÞ, r and p          and 
p ðtÞ. It is curious to reflect that if GP-B had had an
being the known roll and polhode phases, with exact             ideal London moment with no trapped flux, the computa-
resonance occurring when the corresponding frequencies          tion would have been impossible.
coincide, !r ¼ m!p . To clarify the picture of a resonance,        Spacecraft pointing. To model the misalignment
we keep only the resonance term on the right of Eq. (1).        torque, the accurate value of ðtÞ is needed continuously.
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During the half-orbit periods when the guide star is visible,   baseline and nine ‘‘sensitivity run’’ estimates for each
it is the sum of annual and orbital aberrations and minor       gyroscope, whereby in each run the number of terms in a
terms including parallax, bending of starlight by the Sun,      single submodel is increased by 1 above the baseline
and pointing error from the telescope signal. For the oc-       value. The postfit residuals were white with 2 % 1 for
culted periods, ðtÞ was determined from the four science
                  ^                                             all gyroscopes.
gyros’ SQUID signals. The connection process required              The joint four-gyro result is a weighted average of the
fast computation of the gyro spin vector sðtÞ through the
                                               ^                four individual drift rates using their 2 Â 2 rNS , rWE sub-
entire 11 months of science data.                               blocks of the full covariance matrix for each gyroscope. In
   Parameter estimator. The science data set was pro-           the NS direction the scatter of the individual estimates is
cessed by a nonlinear batch weighted least-squares (WLS)        28% larger than the individual uncertainties indicate, while
estimator implemented in iterative sequential information       in the WE direction it is 37% smaller. The individual and
filter form [11]. The cumulative information matrix for the      combined statistical uncertainties are corrected for their
full mission ($ 1:4 Â 107 data points per gyroscope) was        ‘‘over’’ and ‘‘under’’ dispersion using the 2 of the indi-
calculated sequentially based on one-orbit data batches. To     vidual estimates in the NS and WE directions. The ‘‘pa-
ensure robust convergence of numerous runs with different       rameter sensitivity’’ covariance matrix is the scatter of all
numbers of estimated parameters, we used the sigma-point        104 combinations of drift rate estimates obtained in 10
filter technique [12]. The lack of convergence observed in       sensitivity runs for each of the four gyroscopes. The total
some runs of a standard WLS estimator was thus elimi-           covariance matrix is a sum of three matrices: the corrected
nated. Computations were critically facilitated by the re-      statistical one, the sensitivity one, and the covariance
placement of differential equations (1) with their analytical   matrix of unmodeled systematic effects. The 1 uncertain-
solution sNS ðtÞ, sWE ðtÞ for an arbitrary kðtÞ.                ties of the joint result shown in Table II are the square roots
   Results and conclusions.—The four gyroscope signals          of the diagonal elements of the total covariance matrix.
were analyzed independently and the results combined and           Table III summarizes uncertainties of the joint four-gyro
cross-checked in various ways. Table II lists the four rela-    result. The three main disturbances (evolving scale factor
tivity estimates and final joint result with 1 errors, also     and the two Newtonian torques) are modeled and thus
plotted as 95% confidence ellipses in Fig. 3. The values         contribute to the statistical uncertainty. The systematic
are referenced to inertial space by correcting for the          uncertainty in Table III includes (1) uncertainty from the
solar geodetic contribution of 7:3 Æ 0:3 mas=yr NS              sensitivity analysis to the number of model parameters and
and À16:2 Æ 0:6 mas=yr WE, and for the guide star               (2) small effects not incorporated in the model.
proper motion, 27:3 Æ 0:1 mas=yr NS and À20:0 Æ                    We performed several important data analysis cross-
0:1 mas=yr WE (the latter numbers are based on the decli-       checks. First, the gyro drift rate results of Table II are
nation and right ascension rates of 27:27 Æ 0:11 mas=yr         confirmed by separate analyses of the segmented data.
and À20:83 Æ 0:10 mas=yr, respectively, as determined           The 24 independent results from six data segments for
in [13]).                                                       each gyroscope are all consistent with the joint result
   The result for each gyroscope is the average of 10 drift     within their confidence limits, demonstrating the internal
rate estimates based on 10 distinct parameter sets deter-
mined by the following uniform procedure. The submodels
for scale factor Cg ðtÞ, misalignment torque coefficient kðtÞ,
polhode phase p ðtÞ, etc., are linear combinations of cer-
tain basis functions with coefficients to be estimated. The
number of terms in each submodel is increased from zero
until the change in the relativistic drift rate estimates
becomes less than 0:5. This defines the baseline set for
a given gyroscope. Table II gives the weighted mean of the


                    TABLE II.    Results.

Source                  rNS (mas=yr)           rWE (mas=yr)
Gyroscope 1            À6588:6 Æ 31:7          À41:3 Æ 24:6
Gyroscope 2            À6707:0 Æ 64:1          À16:1 Æ 29:7
Gyroscope 3            À6610:5 Æ 43:2          À25:0 Æ 12:1
Gyroscope 4            À6588:7 Æ 33:2          À49:3 Æ 11:4
Joint (see text)       À6601.8 Æ 18.3          À37.2 Æ 7.2      FIG. 3 (color). North-south and west-east relativistic drift rate
GR prediction             À6606:1                  À39:2        estimates (95% confidence) for the four individual gyroscopes
                                                                (colored ellipses) and the joint result (black ellipse).


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    TABLE III. Contributions to experiment uncertainty.        Arlene Coffman with matching funds by KACST was
Contribution                  NS (mas=yr)     WE (mas=yr)      crucial to finalizing this Letter. Support from ICRA/
                                                               ICRANet is also gratefully acknowledged. GP-B would
Statistical (modeled)            16.8              5.9         never have succeeded without the work of hundreds of
Systematic (unmodeled)                                         people at Stanford, NASA, Lockheed Martin, and else-
Parameter sensitivity             7.1              4.0         where. Some 500 graduate, undergraduate and high school
Guide star motion                 0.1              0.1         students have contributed much to the project. Our special
Solar geodetic effect             0.3              0.6
                                                               thanks go to members of the NASA-appointed Science
Telescope readout                 0.5              0.5
                                                               Advisory Committee, chaired by Clifford Will, for their
Other readout uncertainties      1               1
                                                               support and advice, and to Charbel Farhat for all his help.
Other classical torques          0:3             0:4
Total stat + syst                18.3              7.2


consistency of the model. Second, the misalignment torque           *francis1@stanford.edu
coefficients k determined during the calibration phase            [1] L. I. Schiff, Phys. Rev. Lett. 4, 215 (1960).
proved to be in excellent agreement with the end-of-             [2] W. de Sitter, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 77, 155 (1916).
mission values estimated by both algebraic and geometric         [3] J. Lense and H. Thirring, Phys. Z. 19, 156 (1918).
analysis methods. No less impressive was the agreement           [4] K. S. Thorne, in Near Zero: New Frontiers of Physics,
between the time history kðtÞ throughout the mission ob-             edited by J. D. Fairbank et al. (W.H. Freeman and Co.,
tained by the two methods. As for the roll-polhode reso-             New York, 1988), pp. 573–586.
                                                                 [5] G. E. Pugh, Research memorandum 11, Weapons System
nance torques, the gyro dynamics model predicts that
                                                                     Evaluation Group, the Pentagon, Washington, DC, 1959,
during a resonance the gyroscope orientation axis approxi-           reprinted in Nonlinear Gravitodynamics. The Lense-
mately follows a Cornu spiral. Indeed, that is typically             Thirring Effect., edited by R. J. Ruffini and C.
observed in orbit-by-orbit gyro orientations determined              Sigismondi (World Scientific, Singapore, 2003),
by both data analysis methods.                                       pp. 414–426.
   Further cross-checks from the geometric method in-            [6] D. B. DeBra, in Near Zero: New Frontiers of Physics,
cluded relativity estimates for 2 of the 4 gyroscopes, in            edited by J. D. Fairbank et al. (W.H. Freeman and Co.,
both NS and WE directions, in statistical agreement with             New York, 1988), pp. 691–699.
the algebraic results, and an estimate of the gravitational      [7] J. B.Camp, T. W. Darling, and R. E. Brown, J. Appl. Phys.
deflection of light by the Sun. IM Pegasi’s closest approach          69, 7126 (1991).
to the Sun occurs on March 11th, with ecliptic latitude          [8] C. C. Speake, Classical Quantum Gravity 13, A291
                                                                     (1996).
22.1 as compared with the grazing incidence value 0.265
                                                                 [9] G. M. Keiser, J. Kolodziejczak, and A. S. Silbergleit,
in classical light deflection tests. The maximum deflection            Space Sci. Rev. 148, 383 (2009).
predicted by GR is 21.7 mas; the observed 21 Æ 7 mas            [10] A. Silbergleit et al., Space Sci. Rev. 148, 397 (2009).
serves as a neat structural confirmation of Gravity Probe B.     [11] G. J. Bierman, Factorization Methods for Discrete
   Lunar laser ranging has reported a measurement of the             Sequential Estimation (Dover, New York, 2006), 2nd ed.
de Sitter solar geodetic effect to 0.7% [14]. Analyses of       [12] R. van der Merwe, E. Wan, and S. J. Julier, in Proceedings
laser ranging to the LAGEOS and LAGEOS II spacecraft                 of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation  Control Conference
report a 10%–30% measurement of the frame-dragging                   (AIAA, Providence, RI, 2004), pp. 16–19.
effect, assuming the GR value for the geodetic precession       [13] I. I. Shapiro et al. (to be published).
[15,16]. GP-B provides independent measurements of the          [14] J. G. Williams, X. X. Newhall, and J. O. Dickey, Phys.
geodetic and frame-dragging effects at an accuracy of                Rev. D 53, 6730 (1996).
                                                                [15] I. Ciufolini and E. C. Pavlis, Nature (London) 431, 958
0.28% and 19%, respectively.
                                                                     (2004).
   This work was supported by NASA Contract NAS8-               [16] L. Iorio, Space Sci. Rev. 148, 363 (2008).
39225 through Marshall Space Flight Center and by King          [17] The inertial axes used in the Letter are west-east (WE)—
Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).                   along the cross-product of the unit vector to the guide star
Funding was also made available through a personal gift              and the unit vector z of the inertial JE2000 frame, and
                                                                                             ^
by Richard Fairbank with matching funds from NASA and                north-south (NS)—along the cross-product of the WE unit
Stanford University. A personal gift from Vance and                  vector and the unit vector to the guide star.




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Phys revlett.106.221101

  • 1. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics week ending PRL 106, 221101 (2011) PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 3 JUNE 2011 Gravity Probe B: Final Results of a Space Experiment to Test General Relativity C. W. F. Everitt,1,* D. B. DeBra,1 B. W. Parkinson,1 J. P. Turneaure,1 J. W. Conklin,1 M. I. Heifetz,1 G. M. Keiser,1 A. S. Silbergleit,1 T. Holmes,1 J. Kolodziejczak,2 M. Al-Meshari,3 J. C. Mester,1 B. Muhlfelder,1 V. G. Solomonik,1 K. Stahl,1 P. W. Worden, Jr.,1 W. Bencze,1 S. Buchman,1 B. Clarke,1 A. Al-Jadaan,3 H. Al-Jibreen,3 J. Li,1 J. A. Lipa,1 J. M. Lockhart,1 B. Al-Suwaidan,3 M. Taber,1 and S. Wang1 1 HEPL, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4085, USA 2 George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35808, USA 3 King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Received 1 April 2011; published 31 May 2011) Gravity Probe B, launched 20 April 2004, is a space experiment testing two fundamental predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity (GR), the geodetic and frame-dragging effects, by means of cryogenic gyroscopes in Earth orbit. Data collection started 28 August 2004 and ended 14 August 2005. Analysis of the data from all four gyroscopes results in a geodetic drift rate of À6601:8 Æ 18:3 mas=yr and a frame-dragging drift rate of À37:2 Æ 7:2 mas=yr, to be compared with the GR predictions of À6606:1 mas=yr and À39:2 mas=yr, respectively (‘‘mas’’ is milliarcsecond; 1 mas ¼ 4:848 Â 10À9 rad). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.221101 PACS numbers: 04.80.Cc Introduction.—In 1960, Schiff [1] showed that an ideal at the equator, eliminates ‘‘seeing’’ in the measurement to gyroscope in orbit around Earth would undergo two the guide star, and vastly reduces torques from suspending relativistic precessions with respect to a distant inertial the gyroscope against 1g gravity. Cryogenics brings new frame: (1) a geodetic drift in the orbit plane due to motion levels of magnetic shielding, thermal isolation, ultrahigh through the space-time curved by Earth’s mass and (2) a vacuum operation, and a uniquely effective gyro readout frame-dragging due to Earth’s rotation. The geodetic term based on the London moment in a spinning superconduc- matches the curvature precession of the Earth-Moon sys- tor. The two together give the instrument ultimate me- tem around the Sun given by de Sitter in 1916 [2]. The chanical stability: in zero g, there is no sag; at zero K, Schiff frame dragging is related to the dragging of the orbit there is no thermal distortion. plane of a satellite around a rotating planet computed by Essential to GP-B as a controlled physics experiment Lense and Thirring in 1918 [3]. Frame dragging has im- was the calibration phase, a 46-day period following the portant implications for astrophysics; it has been invoked main science phase designed to set limits on a range of as a mechanism to drive relativistic jets emanating from potential disturbing effects and quantify any that might galactic nuclei [4]. prove larger than expected. The measurement requires one or more gyroscopes ref- Experiment description.—The heart of the instrument erenced to a remote star by an onboard telescope. In the was a 0.92 m long fused silica structure containing four 642 km polar orbit of Gravity Probe B (GP-B), the two gyroscopes and a star-tracking telescope mounted in a effects are at right angles, as in Fig. 1. The predicted 2440 l superfluid helium Dewar operating at 1.8 K. Each geodetic drift rate is À6606:1 mas=yr; the frame-dragging drift rate with the chosen star IM Pegasi is À39:2 mas=yr. GP-B was conceived as a controlled physics experiment having submas=yr stability (106 times better than the best modeled navigation gyroscopes) with numerous built-in checks and methods of treating systematics. Three prin- ciples guided the design: (1) make Newtonian gyro drifts much less than the predicted GR effects; (2) add sensors so that modeling hinges on physical understanding as against the ad hoc observational modeling used in navigation gyroscopes; (3) exploit natural effects such as stellar aber- ration in calibrating the instrument. Meeting the many mechanical, optical, and electrical requirements rested on a conjunction of two technologies, space and cryogenics. Operation in space separates the two effects, increases FIG. 1 (color). Predicted drift rates of GP-B gyroscopes. See the geodetic effect 12.4 times as compared to a gyroscope [17] for definitions of WE and NS inertial directions. 0031-9007=11=106(22)=221101(5) 221101-1 Ó 2011 American Physical Society
  • 2. week ending PRL 106, 221101 (2011) PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 3 JUNE 2011 gyroscope comprised a 38 mm diameter niobium-coated TABLE I. The seven near zeros. fused quartz sphere suspended electrically, spun up by Property Requirement Achieved helium gas, and read out magnetically. The four were set in line, two spinning clockwise and two counterclockwise, Rotor properties with axes initially aligned to the boresight of the telescope. Mass unbalance, r=r 6 Â 10À7 2 À 5 Â 10À7 Asphericity (nm) 55 33 The space vehicle rolled with 77.5 s period about the line of Patch dipole (C Á m) 10À15 see text sight to IM Pegasi, which was, however, occulted by Earth Environment for almost half each orbit (Fig. 1). During occulted periods, Cross-track acceleration (g) 10À11 10À11 pointing was referenced to star trackers and rate gyros on the Gas pressure (torr) 10À11 10À14 outside of the spacecraft. Drag compensation, originated by Rotor trapped field (G) 9 0.2–3 Pugh in an independent proposal for an orbiting gyroscope Mixed experiment [5], two months prior to Schiff’s Letter, was by a Rotor electric charge (electrons) 108 108 control system referred to one of the gyroscopes as a proof mass. Attitude, translational, and roll control authority was provided by the helium boil-off gas from the Dewar vented neity and asphericity for the rotor, residual acceleration through proportional thrusters [6]. and magnetic field for the environment. The others are gyro A gyro readout that did not disturb the spin orientation electric charge, gas pressure, and patch effect. Six met was vital. Superconductivity supplied three essentials. The requirements; the complication discovered during the spinning rotor generated a London moment equivalent at calibration phase was the patch effect. Even so, the idea 80 Hz to a uniform 5 Â 10À5 G field aligned with the spin of seeing relativity in the ‘‘raw’’ data was preserved. axis. A SQUID magnetometer coupled to a superconduct- Figure 2 shows the north-south (NS) drifts of the four ing loop on the gyro housing provided a readout capable of gyroscopes with no torque modeling. The geodetic drift detecting a 1 mas change of spin direction in 10 h. Finally, is visible in all four. a combination of high permeability and ultralow field The term ‘‘patch effect’’ [7,8] refers to contact potential superconducting shields around the instrument with local differences between crystalline or contamination regions shields for each gyroscope achieved (1) 240 dB isolation on a metal surface. Prelaunch studies focused on eddy from external magnetic disturbances, (2) a limit on trapped current losses and torques from interaction of the rotor’s fields in the rotors $1% of the London moment, and patch-induced electric dipole moment with support volt- (3) virtual elimination of magnetic torques. ages and the housing dipole moment. Far more important The gyro readout scale factor Cg ðtÞ was calibrated on was the on-orbit discovery of forces and torques caused by orbit against the aberration of starlight. During each half- interacting patches on the rotor and housing. Put simply, orbit when IM Pegasi was visible, the telescope pointed rotor and housing were spherical mechanically; electri- at its apparent position, and the 20.495 86 arcsec annual cally, they were not. and 5.18560 arcsec orbital aberrations, derived, respec- Three unforeseen effects emerged, differing in detail for tively, from the JPL Earth ephemeris and GPS orbit data, each gyroscope: a changing polhode path and two patch appeared in the gyro readout. effect torques. The changing polhode, originating in a An elementary calculation captures the stringencies of 1 pW dissipation of the rotor’s kinetic energy, compli- the experiment. Consider a spherical, not quite homoge- cated the Cg determination. Beginning with their body axes neous rotor under transverse acceleration f. Let r sepa- arbitrarily oriented and a 2–6 h period, the rotors transi- rate the centers of mass and support, vs $ 9 m=s be the tioned to a final 1–4 h period, each spinning nearly about rotor’s peripheral velocity, 0 the maximum allowed drift rate 0:1 mas=yr (1:5 Â 10À17 rad=s). Then, we have r=r 2vs 0 =5f, and mass unbalance requirements r=r: 6 Â 10À18 on Earth, 6 Â 10À10 in a typical 642 km altitude satellite, and 6 Â 10À7 for GP-B in 10À11 g drag- free mode. Without drag compensation, the experiment would have been impossible. Likewise for an aspherical homogeneous rotor, the electrical support torques, while greatly reduced on orbit, only reached the desired level through a further symmetrizing factor, spacecraft roll. The net allowed asphericity was 55 nm. Aiming for a $0:5 mas=yr mission, we created an error tree setting limits on 133 disturbing terms, and verified in advance that all were negligible. Seven ‘‘near zeros’’ FIG. 2 (color). North-south gyro orientation histories with no (Table I) were central. Four noted already are inhomoge- modeling of torque or scale factor. 221101-2
  • 3. week ending PRL 106, 221101 (2011) PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 3 JUNE 2011 its maximum inertia axis. The two torques were (1) Then the ‘‘step over’’ in the NS–WE plane follows, to a spin-to-roll misalignment torque 200–500 larger than lowest order, a Cornu spiral winding out from its initial predicted from mechanical asphericity, and (2) a ‘‘roll- direction a day or so before the resonance, moving across, polhode resonance’’ torque, where the roll averaging men- then winding back into the new direction, its angular pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi tioned above would temporarily fail, making a particular magnitude proportional to a2 þ b2 [9]. m m gyroscope axis realign, or step over, by as much as 100 mas Science data. Determining rNS and rWE requires in 1–2 days when a high harmonic of its polhode rate came (1) data from gyroscope, telescope, and roll reference into resonance with spacecraft roll. The patch effect mis- signals (preprocessed and synchronized at 2 s intervals), alignment torque was discovered and quantified during the with supporting TFM analyses based on separate calibration phase by commanding the spacecraft to point to 2200 sample=s gyro readout signals, and (2) the measure- a series of positions at known angles to the guide star. ment model of Eq. (2) below. The data came from 11 Remarkably, a key to modeling all three effects was months of science operations, where spacecraft anomalies magnetic asphericity: two patterns, magnetic fluxons and from events such as solar-flare-induced CPU reboots re- voltage patches, remained locked together in the rotor. sulted in 10 distinct but connectable data segments. Minor A process of trapped flux mapping (TFM) allowed exact interruptions came from calibrations, transient electronics tracking of the evolving polhode phase and angle needed noise, and passages through the South Atlantic Anomaly. for computing both Cg ðtÞ and torques. Measurement model. With s, , r , and Cg ðtÞ mean- ^ ^ Further extensive and diversified postscience calibra- ings already defined, we write SQUID signal zðtÞ as tions showed no significant disturbing effects other than the three just discussed. zðtÞ ¼ Cg ðtÞ½ðNS À sNS Þ cosðr þ Þ þ ðWE À sWE Þ Data analysis.—Two data analysis methods were used to  sinðr þ ÞŠ þ bias þ noise; (2) determine and cross-check the relativity results. One, called ‘‘algebraic,’’ was based on a parameter estimator (NS À sNS ) and (WE À sWE ) are the NS and WE projec- utilizing the gyro dynamics and measurement models tions of the misalignment ¼ À s, and is a constant ~ ^ ^ detailed below. It produced the primary science results roll phase offset. (see Tables II and III, and Fig. 3). The other method, called Trapped flux mapping. The information gained from ‘‘geometric,’’ though currently less precise, neatly elimi- trapped flux mapping was central to the three main model- nated the need to model the misalignment torque. This ing challenges [determining Cg ðtÞ and handling the mis- torque, being Newtonian, causes drift rates perpendicular alignment and resonance torques]. The magnetic flux to the misalignment vector . The drift in that direction is ~ trapped in each rotor on cooling through its transition thus a combination of relativistic and Newtonian contribu- temperature formed a unique, stable fluxon pattern. By tions, while the drift rate parallel to —when there is no ~ fitting to the spin harmonics of the 2200 sample=s data roll-polhode resonance—is pure relativity. The annual stream, we constructed detailed maps from which the variation in misalignment direction allows determination three-dimensional orientation of each gyroscope could be of both relativity effects. tracked continuously over $2  109 turns. Rotor spin Gyro dynamics. The rNS (geodetic) and rWE (frame- speed and spin-down rate were determined to 10 nHz and dragging) drift rates and two patch effect torques [9] 1 pHz= sec , respectively [10]. Crucial for data analysis connect to the unit vector sðtÞ along the gyro spin axis by ^ were (1) polhode phase p ðtÞ and angle p ðtÞ both good the equations of motion: to 1 over the 353 days of science, and (2) detailed knowl- X edge of the trapped flux contribution to Cg ðtÞ. s NS ¼ rNS þ kðtÞWE þ ðam cosÁm À bm sinÁm Þ; _ m TFM and Cg ðtÞ. The scale factor Cg ðtÞ to be calibrated X against aberration comes from the London moment ML sWE _ ¼ rWE À kðtÞNS þ ðam sinÁm þ bm cosÁm Þ: m aligned with the rotor’s spin axis, plus a complex pattern of trapped flux $10À2 ML fixed in its body, i.e., CLM þ g (1) CTF ðtÞ. To meet the necessary 10À4 accuracy for Cg ðtÞ g The kðtÞWE , kðtÞNS terms give the misalignment drift required connecting data from $5200 successive guide star rates, WE , NS being the components of the misalignment valid half-orbits enabled by TFM. vector ¼ À s, and kðtÞ the polhode-dependent torque ~ ^ ^ TFM and resonance torques. The role of TFM in coefficient, is the unit vector along the spacecraft roll ^ computing the resonance torque was even more remark- axis. The resonance torques are governed by the third term able. Solving Eq. (1) required precise knowledge of p ðtÞ of Eq. (1) where Ám ðtÞ ¼ r ðtÞ À mp ðtÞ, r and p and p ðtÞ. It is curious to reflect that if GP-B had had an being the known roll and polhode phases, with exact ideal London moment with no trapped flux, the computa- resonance occurring when the corresponding frequencies tion would have been impossible. coincide, !r ¼ m!p . To clarify the picture of a resonance, Spacecraft pointing. To model the misalignment we keep only the resonance term on the right of Eq. (1). torque, the accurate value of ðtÞ is needed continuously. ^ 221101-3
  • 4. week ending PRL 106, 221101 (2011) PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 3 JUNE 2011 During the half-orbit periods when the guide star is visible, baseline and nine ‘‘sensitivity run’’ estimates for each it is the sum of annual and orbital aberrations and minor gyroscope, whereby in each run the number of terms in a terms including parallax, bending of starlight by the Sun, single submodel is increased by 1 above the baseline and pointing error from the telescope signal. For the oc- value. The postfit residuals were white with 2 % 1 for culted periods, ðtÞ was determined from the four science ^ all gyroscopes. gyros’ SQUID signals. The connection process required The joint four-gyro result is a weighted average of the fast computation of the gyro spin vector sðtÞ through the ^ four individual drift rates using their 2 Â 2 rNS , rWE sub- entire 11 months of science data. blocks of the full covariance matrix for each gyroscope. In Parameter estimator. The science data set was pro- the NS direction the scatter of the individual estimates is cessed by a nonlinear batch weighted least-squares (WLS) 28% larger than the individual uncertainties indicate, while estimator implemented in iterative sequential information in the WE direction it is 37% smaller. The individual and filter form [11]. The cumulative information matrix for the combined statistical uncertainties are corrected for their full mission ($ 1:4 Â 107 data points per gyroscope) was ‘‘over’’ and ‘‘under’’ dispersion using the 2 of the indi- calculated sequentially based on one-orbit data batches. To vidual estimates in the NS and WE directions. The ‘‘pa- ensure robust convergence of numerous runs with different rameter sensitivity’’ covariance matrix is the scatter of all numbers of estimated parameters, we used the sigma-point 104 combinations of drift rate estimates obtained in 10 filter technique [12]. The lack of convergence observed in sensitivity runs for each of the four gyroscopes. The total some runs of a standard WLS estimator was thus elimi- covariance matrix is a sum of three matrices: the corrected nated. Computations were critically facilitated by the re- statistical one, the sensitivity one, and the covariance placement of differential equations (1) with their analytical matrix of unmodeled systematic effects. The 1 uncertain- solution sNS ðtÞ, sWE ðtÞ for an arbitrary kðtÞ. ties of the joint result shown in Table II are the square roots Results and conclusions.—The four gyroscope signals of the diagonal elements of the total covariance matrix. were analyzed independently and the results combined and Table III summarizes uncertainties of the joint four-gyro cross-checked in various ways. Table II lists the four rela- result. The three main disturbances (evolving scale factor tivity estimates and final joint result with 1 errors, also and the two Newtonian torques) are modeled and thus plotted as 95% confidence ellipses in Fig. 3. The values contribute to the statistical uncertainty. The systematic are referenced to inertial space by correcting for the uncertainty in Table III includes (1) uncertainty from the solar geodetic contribution of 7:3 Æ 0:3 mas=yr NS sensitivity analysis to the number of model parameters and and À16:2 Æ 0:6 mas=yr WE, and for the guide star (2) small effects not incorporated in the model. proper motion, 27:3 Æ 0:1 mas=yr NS and À20:0 Æ We performed several important data analysis cross- 0:1 mas=yr WE (the latter numbers are based on the decli- checks. First, the gyro drift rate results of Table II are nation and right ascension rates of 27:27 Æ 0:11 mas=yr confirmed by separate analyses of the segmented data. and À20:83 Æ 0:10 mas=yr, respectively, as determined The 24 independent results from six data segments for in [13]). each gyroscope are all consistent with the joint result The result for each gyroscope is the average of 10 drift within their confidence limits, demonstrating the internal rate estimates based on 10 distinct parameter sets deter- mined by the following uniform procedure. The submodels for scale factor Cg ðtÞ, misalignment torque coefficient kðtÞ, polhode phase p ðtÞ, etc., are linear combinations of cer- tain basis functions with coefficients to be estimated. The number of terms in each submodel is increased from zero until the change in the relativistic drift rate estimates becomes less than 0:5. This defines the baseline set for a given gyroscope. Table II gives the weighted mean of the TABLE II. Results. Source rNS (mas=yr) rWE (mas=yr) Gyroscope 1 À6588:6 Æ 31:7 À41:3 Æ 24:6 Gyroscope 2 À6707:0 Æ 64:1 À16:1 Æ 29:7 Gyroscope 3 À6610:5 Æ 43:2 À25:0 Æ 12:1 Gyroscope 4 À6588:7 Æ 33:2 À49:3 Æ 11:4 Joint (see text) À6601.8 Æ 18.3 À37.2 Æ 7.2 FIG. 3 (color). North-south and west-east relativistic drift rate GR prediction À6606:1 À39:2 estimates (95% confidence) for the four individual gyroscopes (colored ellipses) and the joint result (black ellipse). 221101-4
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