Synchronization of Clocks by Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry

Clark, Thomas A.; Counselman, Charles C.; Ford, Peter G.; Hanson, Leonard B.; Hinteregger, Hans F.; Klepczynski, William J.; Knight, Curtis A.; Robertson, Douglas S.; Rogers, Alan E. E.; Ryan, James W.; Shapiro, Irwin I.; Whitney, Alan R.

doi:10.1109/tim.1979.4314802

Synchronization of Clocks by Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry

Two hydrogen-maser clocks, one at the Haystack Observatory in Massachusetts and one at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, were synchronized by means of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of several extragalactic radio sources on March 28, and again on Se…