Colloquium: Comparison of astrophysical and terrestrial frequency standards

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Hartnett, John G ^a   Luiten, Andre N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; ACCURACY EVALUATION; ANALYSIS TOOLS; ARRIVAL TIME; ASTRONOMICAL SOURCES; CLOCK COMPARISONS; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FREQUENCY DATA; HIGH QUALITY DATA; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; PRIMARY FREQUENCY STANDARD; REFERENCE TIME; TIME-PERIODS; WHITE DWARFS;

CESIUM; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; STABILITY; STARS;

CLOCKS;

EID: 79951636714     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.83.1     Document Type: Article

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