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Pulsars might be used for the realization of time scales and thus are of direct interest for the field of AGR. Radio pulsars are rapidly rotating strongly magnetized neutron stars where the rotation axis is disaligned from the magnetic axis that determines the direction into which the radio signals is dominantly emitted. If the emitted radio beam comes close to the line of sight a radio pulse is observed.

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Soffel, M.H., Han, WB. (2019). Metrology. In: Applied General Relativity. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19673-8_12

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