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In this chapter, we present an overview of the X-ray pulsar-based navigation system. We provide the mathematical tools needed to analyze the proposed system. We also characterize the epoch folding procedure.
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Emadzadeh, A.A., Speyer, J.L. (2011). Signal Modeling. In: Navigation in Space by X-ray Pulsars. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8017-5_3
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