[time-nuts] Pulsar Source?

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:20:49 -0700
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> 
> > All that is of course correct. But ultimately the pulsars are a better
> > source, I see it as an application question, could it be utilized? Perhaps
> > building an algorithm and basing corrections on multiple pulsars x-ray
> > pulses like a GPS constellation for the next generation of conventional GPS.
> 
> I think modern atomic clocks are better than Pulsars.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have a good reference handy.  I think the theorists 
> have several ideas for why the period of Pulsars change.

See [1] for a short overview and pointers to more literature


			Attila Kinali

[1] http://www.astro.oma.be/IAU/COM31/pdf/JD6/JD06_Kopeikinx.pdf


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