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Clock noise is not included in `tcb_timer_deviations`

TCB timer deviations should represent the difference between the clock time and the equivalent TCB time.

It is the sum of

  • the relativistic effects (given by the orbits as tps_proper_time_deviations)
  • the instrumental clock errors (given by local_timer_deviations, the sum of clock jitter noise, timer offsets and frequency drifts)
  • TCB synchronization errors (given by tcb_sync_noises)

We currently don't include the clock jitter noise, and that's a bug.

Edited by Jean-Baptiste Bayle