High accuracy OMEGA timekeeping
Abstract
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) operates a worldwide satellite tracking network which uses a combination of OMEGA as a frequency reference, dual timing channels, and portable clock comparisons to maintain accurate epoch time. Propagational charts from the U.S. Coast Guard OMEGA monitor program minimize diurnal and seasonal effects. Daily phase value publications of the U.S. Naval Observatory provide corrections to the field collected timing data to produce an averaged time line comprised of straight line segments called a time history file (station clock minus UTC). Depending upon clock location, reduced time data accuracies of between two and eight microseconds are typical.
- Publication:
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13th Ann. Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Appl. and Planning Meeting
- Pub Date:
- March 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982ptti.nasa..187I
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Atomic Clocks;
- Omega Navigation System;
- Satellite Tracking;
- Ships;
- Annual Variations;
- Diurnal Variations;
- Surface Navigation;
- Lasers and Masers