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Table 2 Required measurement precisions in the rotation rate and acceleration along with the associated 6DoF instrument requirements corresponding to the ASD of these precisions

From: PIONEERS: a 6DoF motion sensor to measure rotation and tides in the Solar System

Body

Libration frequency

(Hz)

\(p_{\Omega }\)

[\(\textrm{rad} \textrm{s}^{-1}\)]

\(p_{\Omega _{ASD}}\)

[\(\textrm{rad}/\textrm{s}/\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}\)]

\(p_{a_c}\)

[\(\textrm{m}\textrm{s}^{-2}\)]

\(p_{a_{c_{ASD}}}\)

[\(\textrm{m}/\textrm{s}^{2}/\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}\)]

Mission duration

(days)

Dimorphos

\(2.330\times 10^{-5}\)

\(1.55\times 10^{-6}\)

\(7.16\times 10^{-4}\)

\(3.71\times 10^{-8}\)

\(1.72\times 10^{-5}\)

5

Phobos

\(3.628\times 10^{-5}\)

\(1.27\times 10^{-9}\)

\(4.70\times 10^{-7}\)

\(6.40\times 10^{-9}\)

\(2.38\times 10^{-6}\)

3

Europa

\(3.259\times 10^{-6}\)

\(7.87\times 10^{-11}\)

\(9.75\times 10^{-8}\)

\(5.03\times 10^{-9}\)

\(6.23\times 10^{-6}\)

35.5

Io

\(6.542\times 10^{-6}\)

\(2.97\times 10^{-9}\)

\(2.59\times 10^{-6}\)

\(4.44\times 10^{-7}\)

\(3.88\times 10^{-4}\)

17.5

Titan

\(7.259\times 10^{-7}\)

\(4.43\times 10^{-12}\)

\(1.16\times 10^{-8}\)

\(1.04\times 10^{-10}\)

\(2.72\times 10^{-7}\)

160

Enceladus

\(8.436\times 10^{-6}\)

\(4.42\times 10^{-10}\)

\(3.40\times 10^{-7}\)

\(1.18\times 10^{-8}\)

\(9.09\times 10^{-6}\)

14

Triton

\(1.969\times 10^{-6}\)

\(7.40\times 10^{-15}\)

\(1.18\times 10^{-11}\)

\(2.47\times 10^{-13}\)

\(3.95\times 10^{-10}\)

60

Moon

\(4.209\times 10^{-7}\)

\(1.11\times 10^{-14}\)

\(3.80\times 10^{-11}\)

\(1.02\times 10^{-13}\)

\(3.51\times 10^{-10}\)

275

Mars

\(1.128\times 10^{-5}\)

\(4.00\times 10^{-14}\)

\(6.89\times 10^{-10}\)

\(1.92\times 10^{-11}\)

\(3.31\times 10^{-8}\)

687

  1. The mission duration used to compute the requirements (i.e. ASD quantities) corresponds to 10 times the orbital period except for Mars for which we set to be equal to one martian year