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Effect of Irregularities in the Earth’s Rotation on Relativistic Shifts in Frequency and Time of Earthbound Atomic Clocks

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The effect of irregularities in the earth’s rotation (precession and nutation of the earth’s axis of rotation, oscillations in the modulus of the angular velocity, periodic deviations in the line of the poles, and the angular momentum of the globe) on the frequency and time of high-stability atomic clocks are examined in terms of the theory of relativity. It is shown that the relative shift in frequency and time owing to these effects can exceed 5·10–16.

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This work was done as part of the experimental and design project on Creation of a National Geocentric Coordinate System (GGSK-tochnost) and was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant 14-27-00068).

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  1. All-Russia Research Institute of Physicotechnical and Radio Measurements (VNIIFTRI), Mendeleevo, Moscow Region, Russia

    V. F. Fateev & S. L. Pasynok

  2. Siberian State Academy of Geodesy, Novosibirsk, Russia

    S. M. Kopeikin

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    S. M. Kopeikin

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Translated from Izmeritel’naya Tekhnika, No. 6, pp. 41–45, June, 2015.

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Fateev, V.F., Kopeikin, S.M. & Pasynok, S.L. Effect of Irregularities in the Earth’s Rotation on Relativistic Shifts in Frequency and Time of Earthbound Atomic Clocks. Meas Tech 58, 647–654 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11018-015-0769-0

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