A03: Time Scale

Monday, August 18  13:40-15:40,  Room #18

Session Chairs: Yasuhiro Koyama, Parameswar Banerjee

Time scale is one of the fundamental frameworks for scientific and engineering measurements. The current time scale is defined and maintained from the ensemble of a numerous numbers of atomic clocks and the quality of the time scale is continuously evolving. The key elements of the time scale are the algorithm of ensemble calculation, developments of better comparison techniques, developments of primary frequency standards, and so on. Papers describing various activities related with these elements are solicited.

13:40  A03.1   CONCEPTS OF SPACE-TIME AND MEASUREMENT UNITS

H. Chunhao, C. Zhiwu

Beijing Satellite Navigation Center, Beijing, China


14:00  A03.2   ANALYSIS OF A KALMAN FILTER DETECTOR FOR ATOMIC CLOCK ANOMALIES

G. Signorile

INRIM, Turin, Italy


14:20  A03.3   THE EXPERIENCE OF A TIME METROLOGY INSTITUTE IN THE GALILEO NAVIGATION SYSTEM: THE TIME VALIDATION FACILITY

G. Signorile1, P. Tavella1, I. Sesia1, G. Cerretto1, E. Cantoni1, A. Cernigliaro2, A. Samperi2

1INRIM, Turin, Italy
2AIZOON, Turin, Italy


14:40  A03.4   PERFORMANCES OF UTC(OP) BASED ON LNE-SYRTE ATOMIC FOUNTAINS

M. Abgrall, S. Bize, B. Chupin, J. Guéna, P. Laurent, P. Rosenbusch, P. Uhrich, D. Rovera

LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris - LNE - CNRS - UPMC, Paris, France


15:00  A03.5   DEVELOPMENTS OF OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCK FREQUENCY STANDARDS AND THEIR REMOTE COMPARISONS

H. Katori1, F. -L. Hong2, Y. Koyama3

1School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, JST, Riken, Tokyo, Japan
2Time and Frequency Division, NMIJ, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
3International Affairs Department, NICT, Tokyo, Japan


15:20  A03.6   DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMIC FREQUENCY STANDARDS AT CSIR-NPL, INDIA

A. Sen Gupta, P. Arora, S. De, A. Acharya, N. Batra, S. Yadav, S. Panja, A. Agarwal

Time & Frequency Division, CSIR - NPL, New Delhi, India