Long-term time comparison between frequency standards at NIST and PTB for a test of the validity of local position invariance

Proceedings of the Annual IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 217-222

  Bauch, A ^a   Nelson, L ^b   Parker, T ^c   Weyers, S ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic clocks; General Relativity; Local Position Invariance; Time transfer

Indexed keywords

GENERAL RELATIVITY (GR); LOCAL POSITION INVARIANCE; TIME TRANSFER;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY METERS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INVARIANCE; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RELATIVITY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 1542366361     PISSN: 01616404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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