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Pulsars are natural cosmic clocks. On long timescales they rival the precision of terrestrial atomic clocks. Using a technique called pulsar timing, the exact measurement of pulse arrival times allows a number of applications, ranging from testing theories of gravity to detecting gravitational waves. Also an external reference system suitable for autonomous space navigation can be defined by pulsars, using them as natural navigation beacons, not unlike the use of GPS satellites for navigation on Earth. By comparing pulse arrival times measured on-board a spacecraft with predicted pulse arrivals at a reference location (e.g. the solar system barycenter), the spacecraft position can be determined autonomously and with high accuracy everywhere in the solar system and beyond. We describe the unique properties of pulsars that suggest that such a navigation system will certainly have its application in future astronautics. We also describe the on-going experiments to use the clock-like nature of pulsars to “construct” a galactic-sized gravitational wave detector for low-frequency (\(f_{GW}\sim 10^{-9} \text{--} 10^{-7}\) Hz) gravitational waves. We present the current status and provide an outlook for the future. 相似文献
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T. Beuselinck C. Van Bavinchove V. I. Abrashkin A. E. Kazakova V. V. Sazonov 《Cosmic Research》2010,48(3):246-259
The results of reconstruction of rotational motion of the Foton M-3 satellite during its uncontrolled flight in September 2007 are presented. The reconstruction was performed by processing
the data of onboard measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field obtained by the DIMAC instruments. The measurements were carried
out continuously throughout the flight, but the processing technique dealt with the data portions covering time intervals
of a few orbital revolutions. The data obtained on each such interval were processed jointly by the least squares method with
using integration of the equations of satellite motion relative to its center of mass. When processing, the initial conditions
of motion and the used mathematical model’s parameters were estimated. The results of processing 16 data sets gave us complete
information about the satellite motion. This motion, which began at a low angular velocity, had gradually accelerated and
in five days became close to the regular Euler precession of an axisymmetric solid body. At the end of uncontrolled flight
the angular velocity of the satellite relative to its lengthwise axis was 0.5 deg/s; the angular velocity projection onto
the plane perpendicular to this axis had a magnitude of about 0.18 deg/s. 相似文献
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