On 09/29/2013 03:11 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 9/29/13 3:42 AM, mc235960 wrote: >> >> Le 28 sept. 2013 à 14:26, Magnus Danielson a écrit : >> >> >> I think the radio elescope(s) needed are much smaller. There are >> apparently 2 pulsar clocks installed here in europe, one in St >> Catherine's church Gdansk and the other in the European Parliament, >> Brussels. The Wiki article states "The pulsar clock consists of a >> radiotelescope with 16 antennas, which receive signals from six >> designated pulsars. Digital processing of the pulsar signals is done >> by an FPGA device" . I have tried to find more details without >> success, but the antennas must be reasonable sized to be installed in >> such places. I think the OP link indicates that X-ray wavelengths >> would be used which bring down the detector size. No use on earth >> though. >> > > It would be interesting to find out more info. > > Xrays are nice (see X-NAV), but so far, nobody has built a small, > lightweight X-ray detector of sufficient efficiency. You don't want > to have multiple detectors the size of Chandra, XMM, or Nustar They will be great devised to show where the money went. :)
Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.