The state primary standard of units of time, frequency and the national time scale GET 1-2022: contribution to the formation of Coordinated Universal Time

Measurement of time and frequency is one of the most widespread types of measurements, information on the exact value of time, on the national time scale is extremely in demand by a wide variety of consumers, ranging from commercial electricity metering systems, where the required synchronization accuracy is a few seconds, to space navigation systems that impose requirements on synchronization at the level of units of nanoseconds. At the same time, consumer requirements for the accuracy of time and frequency measurements, as well as for the efficiency of obtaining time-frequency information, are steadily growing, which entails the need to modernize the means of reproducing, storing and transmitting units of time, frequency and time scale. To meet modern consumer requirements for the accuracy of time and frequency measurements, technical means of reproduction, storage and transmission of units have been introduced into the State primary standard of units of time, frequency and national time scale GET 1-2022, allowing to significantly increase the contribution of GET 1-2022 to the formation of the coordinated universal timescale UTC. A brief overview of the composition of GET 1-2022 is given, a comparative analysis of the contribution of time standards to the formation of the UTC timescale is carried out, as well as an analysis of the shifts of the time scales of the standards relative to UTC and the instability of the frequency standards. It is shown that from September 2022 to March 2023, the contribution of GET 1-2022 to the formation of the UTC increased significantly and exceeded that of the US Naval Observatory standard, and currently the contributions of these standards are comparable. In terms of frequency instability and average contribution to the formation of UTC, the atomic standards of GET 1-2022 are significantly superior to similar standard instruments from other countries. It has been established that the national coordinated time scale UTC(SU) is one of the best national implementations of UTC, and the national atomic time scale TA(SU) occupies a leading position among the time scales of leading foreign time laboratories in terms of instability.

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