[time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos

[Magnus Danielson]

On 09/26/2013 08:25 PM, Tom Knox wrote:
> It seems you would need to think of the Pulsar as the clock behind the GPS sat. You then have an algorithm to add the other need information at the rec end. To make things easier add to the constellation one master clock signal with corrections and other needed info from earth. 
With enough of them, you can compare their beatings against your local
clock and use that to count backwards in order to establish the TAI
relationship of your clock in rate and phase, if only reference phase
and frequency observations where made and listed. You would not get
leap-seconds and UTC, because that needs the earth spin observations,
but you can get a fair TAI if you work the numbers.

Cheers,
Magnus