Metrologia · 1986 · 10 citations · 3 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyPhysicsAstrophysicsObservational AstronomyRadio AstronomyPulsar AstronomyTime MetrologyAstronomical Time DeterminationMillisecond PulsarsPeriodicityPulsar TimingRadio Continuum EmissionTime Scales
It is proposed to establish a new astronomical time scale - the pulsar time scale (PT). This scale is based on the very stable periodicity of the pulse sequence of a pulsar radio emission. The most stable pulsars such as PSR 0834+06, 0950+08, 1919+21 and the millisecond pulsar PSR 1937+214 are proposed as reference clocks for the new time scale. The pulsar time scale will keep both an interval and an epoch of the time and is more precise than existing UT and ET astronomical time scales.
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Observed and derived parameters for 330 pulsars
R. N. Manchester, J. H. Taylor · The Astronomical Journal · 1981 · 138 citations
Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +12
Pulsar timing. I - Observations from 1970 to 1978
D. J. Helfand, J. H. Taylor, P. R. Backus et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1980 · 74 citations
Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +15
The 1.5 ms pulsar PSR1937 + 21
Michael Ashworth, A. G. Lyne, F. G. Smith · Nature · 1983 · 37 citations