Characterization of Pulsar Sources for X-ray Navigation — mentioned by perihelions

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:35:01 GMT

That's a remarkable result. Looks like (if I haven't misunderstood) SEXTANT a software experiment that piggybacks on the raw datastream from the NICER x-ray telescope, and estimates the phases of the time-of-arrival of bright millisecond pulsars (in x-ray photons). From differential phases (at microsecond accuracy), they infer differential position (kilometers). I understand it's eight (8) pulsars in the catalog. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08507 I wonder if it's really that easy to extend this to interstellar scales. If you move 300 km, a 1-ms source is reset to its original phase. Go out to…

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Characterization of Pulsar Sources for X-ray Navigation — mentioned by perihelions