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With the development of science and technology, the super high accurate time comparison techniques with several ten picoseconds or higher accuracy are required in many advanced and basic fields. The atomic clock system in the space station has better performance than that on the ground, but the traditional common-view time comparison method cannot be applied to the space station because there are some limitations. At first, the space station common-view time comparison principle aiming at several ten picoseconds accuracy is analyzed, and the sources of delay larger than 1 picosecond are considered. According to the space station common-view time comparison principle, the visibility of the space station is simulated based on several main geographical cities in China. The analysis results show that the time interval is short for ground station to observe the space station, and the common-view time interval is shorter. A more serious problem is shown that some areas cannot receive the signal send by the space station simultaneously, so the traditional common-view time comparison method is invalid when the ground stations are in these areas. Then the effect of space station orbit error is studied in theory and simulation based on the traditional method. The research result shows that the orbit error cannot be cancelled effectively by the traditional method, and the remnant orbit error is on the order of about several hundred picoseconds. These remnant orbit errors have a direct influence on the time comparison. A new asynchronous common-view time comparison method is proposed, and its principle and advantages are introduced. The geometric expression that describes the position relationship between the space station and two ground stations is proposed to find the observation time when the orbit errors can cancel completely. And the high stability of the space atomic clock and the ground atomic clock are advantaged to model and extrapolate the space-ground clock bias. The geometric position relationship and the modeling and extrapolating of the space-ground clock bias are combined together to solve the problems of time comparison accuracy and common-view blind area, because the optimized method does not require that two ground stations observe the space station simultaneously. Finally, the simulation experiments are done to validate the new method. The experimental result shows that the asynchronous common-view time comparison method is valid to realize the time comparison with the accuracy of several ten picoseconds. And it also shows that the new method is helpful in solving the problem of blind area that exists in traditional space station common-view time comparison method.
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Keywords:
- space station /
- common-view time comparison /
- general relativity /
- orbit error
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[1] Kong X X, Shen W B, Zhang S J 2016 Geom. Inf. Sci. Wuhan Univ. 41 969 (in Chinese) [孔祥雪, 申文斌, 张胜军 2016 武汉大学学报·信息科学版 41 969]
[2] Bai Y 2015 Ph. D. Dissertation (Beijing:Tsinghua University) (in Chinese) [白钰 2015 博士学位论文 (北京:清华大学)]
[3] Hou X B 2015 National Conference on Information Technology and Computer Science (CITCS 2015) Shanghai, China, March 21, 2015 p377
[4] Matsakis D, Defraigne P, Banerjee P 2014 Radio Sci. Bull. 351 29
[5] Miao Q 2015 Ph. D. Dissertation (Beijing:Tsinghua University) (in Chinese) [苗菁2015 博士学位论文 (北京:清华大学)]
[6] Yuan Y B, Wang B, Wang L J 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 080601
[7] Yuan Y B, Wang B, Gao C, Wang L J 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 040601
[8] Meynadier F, Delva P, Poncin-Latte C, Guerlin C, Wolf P 2018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.06491.pdf[2018-4-27]
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[15] Daganzo E, Feltham S, Much R, Nasca R, Stalford R, Hess M P, Stringhetti L 2009 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium Besancon, France April 20-24, 2009 p1146
[16] Delva P, Meynadier F, Poncin-Lafitte C, Laurent P, Wolf P 2013 European Frequency Prague, Czech Republic, July 21-25, 2013 p28
[17] Chen X, Xu K, Yang H L 2014 Inf. Comm. 11 1 (in Chinese) [陈霄, 徐慨, 杨海亮 2014 信息通信 11 1]
[18] Zhang K, Bai Y 2017 Electr. Design Eng. 25 153 [张柯, 白燕 2017 电子设计工程 25 153]
[19] Kaplan E, Hegarty C J (translated by Kou Y H) 2012 Understanding GPS:Principle and Applications (Beijing:Electronic Industry Press) pp48-51 (in Chinese) [Kaplan E, Hegarty C J 著 (寇艳红 译) 2012 GPS原理与应用(北京:电子工业出版社)第48–51页]
[20] Liu L 2004 Ph. D. Dissertation (Zhengzhou:Information Engineering University) (in Chinese) [刘利 2014 博士学位论文 (郑州:解放军信息工程大学)]
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