METHOD OF DETERMINING WORLD (UNIVERSAL) TIME FROM PULSAR PULSES Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC G04B49/00 

FIELD: measurement techniques.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to techniques of measuring time and can be used for determining world (universal) time from pulsar pulses. According to the invention, the method of determining world (universal) time from pulsar pulses involves modification of intervals of the pulsar pulses, calculated from corrected observations of values of the period of rotation of the pulsar and derivatives, proportional to the ratio of duration of earth days, measured on the date of observation to duration of earth days, measured on the date of observation of the initial pulsar pulse. From the set of modified and non-modified intervals, the interval difference is determined in the barycentric reference system and in a system with the centre in the phase centre of a radio telescope, and from this difference, world time is determined by correcting readings of atomic clocks by this difference value.

EFFECT: increased accuracy of measurement owing to standardisation of world time values read from a uniform atomic time scale, determined taking into account non-uniformity of rotation of the Earth.

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