CPEM 2010
DOI: 10.1109/cpem.2010.5543307
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 7(60), p. 2527-2532, 2011
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We report on the comparison between three absolute gravimeters that took place in April 2010 at Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais. The three instruments (FG5#209 from METAS, Switzerland, IMGC-02 from INRIM, Italy, and CAG from LNE-SYRTE, France) rely on different methods: optical and atomic interferometry. We discuss their differences as well as their similarities. We compare their measurements of the gravitational acceleration in 4 points of the same pillar, in the perspective of an absolute determination of g for a watt balance experiment