[time-nuts] Gamma-ray and jitter
Bob Camp
lists at rtty.us
Sun Nov 14 13:45:50 UTC 2010
Hi
The crystal in the 10811 could also get charged by leakage through the blocking caps in series with it. Sort of a "who leaks more" race between the caps, the crystal, and maybe the PC board.
Bob
On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Richard Karlquist wrote:
> FWIW, you will notice that there is a high value resistor shunting
> the crystal in the 10811. The reason for this is to drain off DC charge
> caused
> by cosmic rays hitting the crystal, according to the designers.
>
> Rick Karlquist
> N6RK
>
> On Sat 13/11/10 2:48 PM , "iovane at inwind.it" wrote:
>
> In the very recent days it has been discovered a previously unknown
> feature of our galaxy, that is the presence of two giant bubbles
> which appear to be gamma-ray sources.
>
> See
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/new-structure.html
> [1]">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/new-structure.html
>
> After reading this, I have revieved some old data of mine, which shoved
> that the noise in a long term temperature measurement is higher when my
> observing site is in view of that structure. Now I'm rather
> convinced that there could be a correlation between my observations and
> the above mentioned new findings, and I believe that the noise is
> generated by the measuring setup in response to something
> linked to the bubbles.
>
> Hence I'm wondering if that stimulus could also affect the jitter in
> high performance oscillators.
>
> More precisely, I would ask time-nuts whether any sidereal periodicities
> have ever been noticed in jitter measurements.
>
> Thanks,
> Antonio I8IOV
>
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