Temperature Sensitivity of Timing Measurements Using Dorne Margolin Antennas |
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Authors: | J R Ray K Senior |
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Institution: | (1) U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC, US |
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Abstract: | We have inferred the temperature sensitivity of Dorne Margolin choke ring antennas by direct estimation from differential
clock estimates for two GPS sites separated by 2400 km. At each site, the cable and receiver systems are very well isolated
from environmental variations. By direct comparison of the observed clock variations between these sites with local temperature
measurements, empirical temperature coefficients for each system have been estimated. These thermal coefficients most likely
apply to the only uncontrolled components of the systems, the Dorne Margolin choke ring antennas. Based on these results,
the short-term (diurnal) stability of the antennas appears to be better than 2 ps/°C. The possibility that longer-term effects
exist due to sensitivity in the daily average of the pseudorange observations has not been tested and cannot be excluded.
? 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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