IAA VLBI Analysis Center Report 2012
This report presents an overview of IAA VLBI Analysis Center activities during 2012 and the plans for the coming year.
Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Skurikhina, Elena.
This report presents an overview of IAA VLBI Analysis Center activities during 2012 and the plans for the coming year.
The antenna axis offsets were estimated from global solutions and single sessions. We have built a set of global solutions from R1 and R4 sessions and from the sets of sessions between SVETLOE repairs. We compared our estimates with local survey data for the stations of the QUASAR network. Svetloe station axis offset values have changed after repairs. For non-global networks, the axis offset value of a single station can significantly affect the EOP estimations.
The purpose of the Russian VLBI "Quasar" Network is to carry out astrometrical and geodynamical investigations. Since 2006 purely domestic observational programs with data processing at the IAA correlator have been carried out. To maintain these geodynamical programs e-VLBI technology is being developed and tested. This paper describes the IAA activity of developing a real-time VLBI system using high-speed digital communication links.