• DocumentCode
    950887
  • Title

    VLBI clock synchronization

  • Author

    Counselman, C.C., III ; Shapiro, I.I. ; Rogers, A.E.E. ; Hinteregger, H.F. ; Knight, C.A. ; Whitney, A.R. ; Clark, T.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Volume
    65
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1977
  • Firstpage
    1622
  • Lastpage
    1623
  • Abstract
    Atomic clocks at widely separated sites can be synchronized to within several nanoseconds from a few minutes of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations, and to within one nanosecond from several hours of such observations.
  • Keywords
    Clocks; Counting circuits; Delay estimation; Frequency conversion; Frequency synchronization; Noise generators; Noise shaping; Radio interferometry; Shift registers; Space technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1977.10793
  • Filename
    1455062