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Millisecond Pulsars as Standards: Timing, positioning and communication

Popular Physics 2018-06-12 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Authors: Clement Vidal
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Abstract

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have a great potential to set standards in timekeeping, positioning and metadata communication.

Keywords

pulsars

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@article{arxiv.1711.06036,
  title  = {Millisecond Pulsars as Standards: Timing, positioning and communication},
  author = {Clement Vidal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06036},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

3 pages, to appear in Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 337: Pulsar Astrophysics - The Next 50 Years

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