The science of time 2016

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Springer, Dordrecht

2017

394 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-59908-3

Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
vol. 50

The science of time 2016

time in astronomy & society, past, present and future

Edited by

Elisa Felicitas Arias , Ludwig Combrinck , Pavel Gabor , Catherine Hohenkerk

Publication details

Full citation:

Felicitas Arias, E. , Combrinck, L. , Gabor, P. , Hohenkerk, C. (eds) (2017). The science of time 2016: time in astronomy & society, past, present and future, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Cosmic time

Impey Chris

1-13

The proof of the pudding

Andrewes William

15-16

The role of ephemerides from Ptolemy to Kepler

Gingerich Owen

17-24

How time served to measure the geographical position since hellenism

Hoffmann Susanne M.

25-36

Changing times in the nautical almanac over 250 years

Nelmes Susan

37-43

Bond time

Saff Donald

45-45

The development and use of the Pilkington and Gibbs heliochronometer and sol horometer

Parsons Geoff

47-48

These are not your mother's sundials

Schechner Sara J.

49-73

The history of time

McCarthy Dennis

75-75

"When?" it's a basic question that we ask all the time

Stenn Harlan

77-77

Inter-site alignments of prehistoric shrines in Chaco canyon to the major lunar standstill

Sofaer Anna; Weiner Robert; Stone William

79-101

Atomic time scales and their applications in astronomy

Felicitas Arias Elisa

103-104

Relativistic time at the US naval observatory

Demetrios Matsakis

105-118

Real-time realization of utc at observatoire de paris

Rovera G. D.; Bize S.; Chupin B.; Guéna J.; Laurent Ph.; Rosenbusch P.; Uhrich P.; Abgrall M.

119-122

Time in television systems

Craig Donald

123-124

From computer time to legal civil time

Allen Steve

125-125

The ut1 and utc time services provided by the national institute of standards and technology

Levine Judah

127-139

On a redefinition of the si second

Riehle Fritz

141-141

Time scales steered by optical clocks

Ido T.; Hachisu H.; Nakagawa F.; Hanado Y.

143-149

Activities of time and frequency metrology at nict

Ido T.; Hachisu H.; Hanado Y.

151-157

Iau standards of fundamental astronomy (sofa)

Hohenkerk Catherine

159-163

Earth's variable clock

Morrison L. V.; Stephenson F. R.

165-165

The determination of earth orientation by VLBI and GNSS

Capitaine Nicole

167-196

Status of the Gaia mission

Mignard François

197-197

Time synchronization and the origins of GPS

Easton Richard D.

199-202

Dasch for days to decades time domain astronomy

Grindlay Jonathan

203-204

Mean solar time and its connection to universal time

Seago John H.

205-226

How gravity and continuity in UT1 moved the Greenwich meridian

Malys Stephen; Seago John H.

227-241

Aspects of time as it relates to space geodesy

Combrinck Ludwig

243-252

Pulsars

Manchester R. N.; Guo L.; Hobbs G.; Coles W. A.

253-265

The leap second debate

Gabor Pavel

267-275

How to talk to the public about the leap second?

Dick Wolfgang R.

277-286

The problem of leap seconds

Frankston Bob

287-292

Common calendar

Harris Brooks

293-317

The transfer of earth-time to the planets

Smith David E; Zuber Maria T

319-328

Keeping time with the asteroids

Seaman Rob; Shelly Frank; Christensen Eric; Gibbs Alexander; Larson Stephen

329-330

Long-term timekeeping in the clock of the long now

331-336

Aspects of time distribution

Burnicki Martin

337-363

Time critical

Wiley Daniel

365-366

Timescale pluralism and sciences of time

Birth Kevin

367-367

Liberating clocks

Bastian Michelle

369-377

New technologies and the future of timekeeping

Felicitas Arias Elisa

379-389

Are clocks enough?

Frank Adam

391-392

Time warped

Belden-Adams Kris

393-394

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