Modern Frequency Standards and Time Comparisons

Demetrios N. Matsakis and Brent A. Archinal

Abstract:	The accuracy of International Atomic Tie (TAT) has improved dramatically in the past few years. This is due to an increase in the number and quality of contributing frequency standards. In this paper we describe these standards, discuss how time scales are formulated, and present very preliminary results from one (mercury trapped ion) of three new kinds of standards which are likely to contribute to TAT in the near future.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1996) June 19 - 21, 1996 Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, MA
Pages:	741 - 748
Cite this article:	Matsakis, Demetrios N., Archinal, Brent A., "Modern Frequency Standards and Time Comparisons," Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1996), Cambridge, MA, June 1996, pp. 741-748.
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