Developing a pulsar-based timescale

2010/11/24 by G. Hobbs, W. Coles, Hobbs, G. +5 · 1 voice
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.5285

Abstract

We show how pulsar observations may be used to construct a time standard that is independent of terrestrial time standards. The pulsar time scale provides a method to determine the stability of terrestrial time standards over years to decades. Here, we summarise the method, provide initial results and discuss the possibilities and limitations of our pulsar time scale.

Discussions

• We wouldn’t have these terrestrial worries if we fined our time standards from the pesky pulsars … arxiv.org/abs/1011.5285 [bsky, 14 points, 1 comments]

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