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Absolute ballistic gravimeter ABG-VNIIM-1 by D.I. Mendeleyev Research Institute for Metrology

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A new free-fall absolute ballistic gravimeter ABG-VNIIM-1 was fabricated at D.I. Mendeleyev Research Institute for Metrology (VNIIM). The gravimeter ABG-VNIIM-1 was tested at the gravimetric site Lomonosov-1 in Lomonosov branch of VNIIM. The estimated total instrumental uncertainty of ABG VNIIM-1 was determined to be 2 × 10−8 m s−2. Typical residuals in the least square evaluation of the trajectory of the test body in a single drop at the site Lomonosov-1 are from 0.3 to 0.8 nm.

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  1. D.I. Mendeleyev Research Institute for Metrology (VNIIM), St. Petersburg, Russia

    L. F. Vitushkin & O. A. Orlov

  2. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    L. F. Vitushkin & O. A. Orlov

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Published in Russian in Giroskopiya i Navigatsiya, 2014, No. 2, pp. 95–101.

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Vitushkin, L.F., Orlov, O.A. Absolute ballistic gravimeter ABG-VNIIM-1 by D.I. Mendeleyev Research Institute for Metrology. Gyroscopy Navig. 5, 283–287 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075108714040105

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