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Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map
2022, Alonso, Iván, Alpigiani, Cristiano, Altschul, Brett, Araújo, Henrique, Arduini, Gianluigi, Arlt, Jan, Badurina, Leonardo, Balaž, Antun, Bandarupally, Satvika, Barish, Barry C., Barone, Michele, Reguzzoni, Mirko, Richaud, Andrea, Riou, Isabelle, Rothacher, Markus, Roura, Albert, Ruschhaupt, Andreas, Sabulsky, Dylan O., Safronova, Marianna, Saltas, Ippocratis D., Bernabeu, Jose, Haehnelt, Martin, Salvi, Leonardo, Sameed, Muhammed, Saurabh, Pandey, Schäffer, Stefan, Schiller, Stephan, Schilling, Manuel, Schkolnik, Vladimir, Schlippert, Dennis, Schmidt, Piet O., Schnatz, Harald, Hanımeli, Ekim T., Bertoldi, Andrea, Schneider, Jean, Schneider, Ulrich, Schreck, Florian, Schubert, Christian, Shayeghi, Armin, Sherrill, Nathaniel, Shipsey, Ian, Signorini, Carla, Singh, Rajeev, Hawkins, Leonie, Singh, Yeshpal, Bingham, Robert, Skordis, Constantinos, Smerzi, Augusto, Sopuerta, Carlos F., Sorrentino, Fiodor, Sphicas, Paraskevas, Stadnik, Yevgeny V., Stefanescu, Petruta, Tarallo, Marco G., Hees, Aurélien, Tentindo, Silvia, Tino, Guglielmo M., Bize, Sébastien, Tinsley, Jonathan N., Tornatore, Vincenza, Treutlein, Philipp, Trombettoni, Andrea, Tsai, Yu-Dai, Tuckey, Philip, Uchida, Melissa A., Henderson, Victoria A., Valenzuela, Tristan, Van Den Bossche, Mathias, Vaskonen, Ville, Blas, Diego, Verma, Gunjan, Vetrano, Flavio, Vogt, Christian, von Klitzing, Wolf, Waller, Pierre, Walser, Reinhold, Herr, Waldemar, Wille, Eric, Williams, Jason, Windpassinger, Patrick, Wittrock, Ulrich, Bongs, Kai, Wolf, Peter, Woltmann, Marian, Wörner, Lisa, Xuereb, André, Yahia, Mohamed, Herrmann, Sven, Yazgan, Efe, Yu, Nan, Zahzam, Nassim, Zambrini Cruzeiro, Emmanuel, Zhan, Mingsheng, Bouyer, Philippe, Zou, Xinhao, Zupan, Jure, Zupanič, Erik, Braitenberg, Carla, Hird, Thomas, Brand, Christian, Braxmaier, Claus, Bresson, Alexandre, Buchmueller, Oliver, Budker, Dmitry, Bugalho, Luís, Burdin, Sergey, Cacciapuoti, Luigi, Callegari, Simone, Calmet, Xavier, Hobson, Richard, Calonico, Davide, Canuel, Benjamin, Caramete, Laurentiu-Ioan, Carraz, Olivier, Cassettari, Donatella, Chakraborty, Pratik, Chattopadhyay, Swapan, Chauhan, Upasna, Chen, Xuzong, Chen, Yu-Ao, Hock, Vincent, Chiofalo, Maria Luisa, Coleman, Jonathon, Corgier, Robin, Cotter, J. P., Michael Cruise, A., Cui, Yanou, Davies, Gavin, De Roeck, Albert, Demarteau, Marcel, Derevianko, Andrei, Barsanti, Michele, Di Clemente, Marco, Djordjevic, Goran S., Donadi, Sandro, Doré, Olivier, Dornan, Peter, Doser, Michael, Drougakis, Giannis, Dunningham, Jacob, Easo, Sajan, Eby, Joshua, Hogan, Jason M., Elertas, Gedminas, Ellis, John, Evans, David, Examilioti, Pandora, Fadeev, Pavel, Fanì, Mattia, Fassi, Farida, Fattori, Marco, Fedderke, Michael A., Felea, Daniel, Holst, Bodil, Feng, Chen-Hao, Ferreras, Jorge, Flack, Robert, Flambaum, Victor V., Forsberg, René, Fromhold, Mark, Gaaloul, Naceur, Garraway, Barry M., Georgousi, Maria, Geraci, Andrew, Holynski, Michael, Gibble, Kurt, Gibson, Valerie, Gill, Patrick, Giudice, Gian F., Goldwin, Jon, Gould, Oliver, Grachov, Oleg, Graham, Peter W., Grasso, Dario, Griffin, Paul F., Israelsson, Ulf, Guerlin, Christine, Gündoğan, Mustafa, Gupta, Ratnesh K., Jeglič, Peter, Jetzer, Philippe, Juzeliūnas, Gediminas, Kaltenbaek, Rainer, Kamenik, Jernej F., Kehagias, Alex, Bass, Steven, Kirova, Teodora, Kiss-Toth, Marton, Koke, Sebastian, Kolkowitz, Shimon, Kornakov, Georgy, Kovachy, Tim, Krutzik, Markus, Kumar, Mukesh, Kumar, Pradeep, Lämmerzahl, Claus, Bassi, Angelo, Landsberg, Greg, Le Poncin-Lafitte, Christophe, Leibrandt, David R., Lévèque, Thomas, Lewicki, Marek, Li, Rui, Lipniacka, Anna, Lisdat, Christian, Liu, Mia, Lopez-Gonzalez, J. L., Battelier, Baptiste, Loriani, Sina, Louko, Jorma, Luciano, Giuseppe Gaetano, Lundblad, Nathan, Maddox, Steve, Mahmoud, M. A., Maleknejad, Azadeh, March-Russell, John, Massonnet, Didier, McCabe, Christopher, Baynham, Charles F. A., Meister, Matthias, Mežnaršič, Tadej, Micalizio, Salvatore, Migliaccio, Federica, Millington, Peter, Milosevic, Milan, Mitchell, Jeremiah, Morley, Gavin W., Müller, Jürgen, Murphy, Eamonn, Beaufils, Quentin, Müstecaplıoğlu, Özgür E., O’Shea, Val, Oi, Daniel K. L., Olson, Judith, Pal, Debapriya, Papazoglou, Dimitris G., Pasatembou, Elizabeth, Paternostro, Mauro, Pawlowski, Krzysztof, Pelucchi, Emanuele, Belić, Aleksandar, Pereira dos Santos, Franck, Peters, Achim, Pikovski, Igor, Pilaftsis, Apostolos, Pinto, Alexandra, Prevedelli, Marco, Puthiya-Veettil, Vishnupriya, Quenby, John, Rafelski, Johann, Rasel, Ernst M., Bergé, Joel, Ravensbergen, Cornelis
We summarise the discussions at a virtual Community Workshop on Cold Atoms in Space concerning the status of cold atom technologies, the prospective scientific and societal opportunities offered by their deployment in space, and the developments needed before cold atoms could be operated in space. The cold atom technologies discussed include atomic clocks, quantum gravimeters and accelerometers, and atom interferometers. Prospective applications include metrology, geodesy and measurement of terrestrial mass change due to, e.g., climate change, and fundamental science experiments such as tests of the equivalence principle, searches for dark matter, measurements of gravitational waves and tests of quantum mechanics. We review the current status of cold atom technologies and outline the requirements for their space qualification, including the development paths and the corresponding technical milestones, and identifying possible pathfinder missions to pave the way for missions to exploit the full potential of cold atoms in space. Finally, we present a first draft of a possible road-map for achieving these goals, that we propose for discussion by the interested cold atom, Earth Observation, fundamental physics and other prospective scientific user communities, together with the European Space Agency (ESA) and national space and research funding agencies.
Time-lapse gravity and levelling surveys reveal mass loss and ongoing subsidence in the urban subrosion-prone area of Bad Frankenhausen, Germany
2019, Kobe, Martin, Gabriel, Gerald, Weise, Adelheid, Vogel, Detlef
We present results of sophisticated, high-precision time-lapse gravity monitoring that was conducted over 4 years in Bad Frankenhausen (Germany). To our knowledge, this is the first successful attempt to monitor subrosion-induced mass changes in urban areas with repeated gravimetry. The method provides an approach to estimate the mass of dissolved rocks in the subsurface. Subrosion, i.e. leaching and transfer of soluble rocks, occurs worldwide. Mainly in urban areas, any resulting ground subsidence can cause severe damage, especially if catastrophic events, i.e. collapse sinkholes, occur. Monitoring strategies typically make use of established geodetic methods, such as levelling, and therefore focus on the associated deformation processes. In this study, we combine levelling and highly precise time-lapse gravity observations. Our investigation area is the urban area of Bad Frankenhausen in central Germany, which is prone to subrosion, as many subsidence and sinkhole features on the surface reveal. The city and the surrounding areas are underlain by soluble Permian deposits, which are continuously dissolved by meteoric water and groundwater in a strongly fractured environment. Between 2014 and 2018, a total of 17 high-precision time-lapse gravimetry and 18 levelling campaigns were carried out in quarterly intervals within a local monitoring network. This network covers historical sinkhole areas but also areas that are considered to be stable. Our results reveal ongoing subsidence of up to 30.4 mm a−1 locally, with distinct spatiotemporal variations. Furthermore, we observe a significant time-variable gravity decrease on the order of 8 µGal over 4 years at several measurement points. In the processing workflow, after the application of all required corrections and least squares adjustment to our gravity observations, a significant effect of varying soil water content on the adjusted gravity differences was figured out. Therefore, we place special focus on the correlation of these observations and the correction of the adjusted gravity differences for soil water variations using the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) Noah model to separate these effects from subrosion-induced gravity changes. Our investigations demonstrate the feasibility of high-precision time-lapse gravity monitoring in urban areas for sinkhole investigations. Although the observed rates of gravity decrease of 1–2 µGal a−1 are small, we suggest that it is significantly associated with subterranean mass loss due to subrosion processes. We discuss limitations and implications of our approach, as well as give a first quantitative estimation of mass transfer at different depths and for different densities of dissolved rocks.