ACES MWL data analysis center at SYRTE
Résumé
The ACES-PHARAO mission aims at operating a cold-atom caesium clock on board the
International Space Station, and performs two-way time transfer with ground
terminals, in order to allow highly accurate and stable comparisons of its
internal timescale with those found in various metrology institutes. Scientific
goals in fundamental physics include tests of the gravitational redshift with
unprecedented accuracy, and search for a violation of the Lorentz local
invariance. Hopefully this is our last status update in Moriond with ACES still
on ground... As launch is coming closer we are getting ready to process the data
expected to come from ACES Microwave Link (MWL) once on board the International
Space Station. Several hurdles have been cleared in our software in the past
months, as we managed to implement algorithms that reach target accuracy for
ground/space desynchronisation measurement. I will present the current status of
data analysis preparation, as well as the activities that will take place at
SYRTE in order to set up its data processing center.