[time-nuts] Rb as source for ADEV?

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Thu Feb 6 22:08:41 EST 2014


On 07/02/14 01:09, Richard Karlquist wrote:
> On 2014-02-06 15:13, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>> On ADEV -- I know the source code calls them adev and oadev, but you
>> should just call it ADEV. No one uses the old back-to-back formula
>> anymore; the overlapping formula is the default. And then plot using
>> the "all" or "many" tau method I mentioned.
>>
>> /tvb
>>
>
> I never knew about these different versions of ADEV.
> Can you point me to any reference?

Hopefully this is a good start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_variance

In the references I also put NIST SP 1065:
http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/2220.pdf

Cheers,
Magnus


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