2 papers
astro-ph.IM2013
Interplanetary spacecraft navigation using pulsars
X. P. Deng, G. Hobbs, X. P. You +10
We demonstrate how observations of pulsars can be used to help navigate a spacecraft travelling in the solar system. We make use of archival observations of millisecond pulsars fro…
astro-ph.IM2012
Development of a pulsar-based timescale
G. Hobbs, W. Coles, R. N. Manchester +21
Using observations of pulsars from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project we develop the first pulsar-based timescale that has a precision comparable to the uncertainties in…