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Underground operation at best sensitivity of the mobile LNE-SYRTE cold atom gravimeter

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Low noise underground environments offer conditions allowing assessment of ultimate performance of high sensitivity sensors such as accelerometers, gyrometers, seismometers⋯ Such facilities are for instance ideal for observing the tiny signals of interest for geophysical studies. Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit (LSBB) in which we have installed our cold atom gravimeter provides such an environment. We report here the best short term sensitivity ever obtained without any ground vibration isolation system with such an instrument: 10−8 m s−2 in 100 s measurement time.

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    Present address: LKB, CNRS, UPMC, UMR 8552, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, France

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  1. LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, LNE, CNRS, UPMC, 61 avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris, France

    T. Farah, C. Guerlin, A. Landragin, F. Pereira Dos Santos & S. Merlet

  2. LP2N, UMR5298, IOGS, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux 1, 351 cours de la Libération, Talence, France

    Ph. Bouyer

  3. LSBB, UMS UNS, UAPV, CNRS, Rustrel, France

    S. Gaffet

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Farah, T., Guerlin, C., Landragin, A. et al. Underground operation at best sensitivity of the mobile LNE-SYRTE cold atom gravimeter. Gyroscopy Navig. 5, 266–274 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075108714040051

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