[time-nuts] Exact Rubidium frequency
Tom Van Baak
tvb at LeapSecond.com
Tue Jul 17 04:56:26 EDT 2007
Hi Peter,
Do you like the way the NIST page looks now?
http://tf.nist.gov/general/enc-re.htm#resonancefrequency
http://tf.nist.gov/general/enc-re.htm#rubidiumoscillator
/tvb
>> Thank you all for your replies. It still begs the question of why
>> NIST and PTB disagree by nearly 5 Hz on their web pages - I'll write
>> and ask them, and report back what they say.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter Vince (G8ZZR, London)
>
> Peter,
>
> Yes, please send a note to NIST and have them update the
> Rb hyperfine frequency that appears in:
> http://tf.nist.gov/general/enc-re.htm#rubidiumoscillator
>
> My guess is the old ...608 number came from a 1959 paper:
> Hyperfine Transitions in Rubidium-87 Vapor
> http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/1537.pdf
>
> I suggest for the purposes of their glossary, the new number
> doesn't have to be accurate to the micro-Hertz and probably
> doesn't need to be changed every time someone does a new
> experiment with Rb.
>
> NIST gives the defined value for Cesium: 9,192,631,770 Hz
> and a rounded value for Hydrogen: 1,420,405,752 Hz, so a
> value of 6,384,682,612 Hz might do. Not sure what to say
> about ...612.8 vs. ...610.904. Let NIST figure that one out.
>
> Either way, I don't have to change my cars ;-)
> http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/unix/
>
> /tvb
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