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Subject: Do the accuracy of astronomical observations increase as a function of time

Date: Thu Oct 14 01:03:51 2010
Posted by Abhinav Deshmukh
Grade level: undergrad School: NUS
City: Singapore State/Province: Singapore Country: Singapore
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 1287043431.As
Message:

I was researching a paper "Test of General Relativity from 3 dimensional orbital 
geometry of a binary pulsar" by VanStraten , Bailes et al.They have mentioned 
that they expect the precision of a value to increase as a function of 
t^3/2(t=time).I dont understand how a given observation's accuracy can improve 
as a factor of time in mathematical terms. Are there systems whose accuracy can 
be expressed as a function of time??


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