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Summary In May 1989 and April 1990 the radio telescopes of the Wettzell Geodetic Fundamental Station in Germany and of the Shanghai Observatory near Seshan in China observed two series of daily VLBI experiments of short duration for precise determination of UT1. In 1990 a few experiments were complemented by the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory in South Africa and the Medicina telescope of the Bologna Istituto di Radioastronomia in Italy. Employing the South African station together with the east-west baseline formed by the observatories of Seshan and Medicina permitted simultaneous determinations of UT1 and polar motion. Here we report on the results of these observations. Comparing the UT1 results with those of the IRIS Intensive series gives a clear indication of the absolute accuracy of such short duration VLBI measurements which is estimated to be of the order of ±60µs. 相似文献
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The source position time-series for many of the frequently observed radio sources in the NASA geodetic very long baseline
interferometry (VLBI) program show systematic linear and non-linear variations of as much as 0.5 mas (milli-arc-seconds) to
1.0 mas, due mainly to source structure changes. In standard terrestrial reference frame (TRF) geodetic solutions, it is a
common practice to only estimate a global source position for each source over the entire history of VLBI observing sessions.
If apparent source position variations are not modeled, they produce corresponding systematic variations in estimated Earth
orientation parameters (EOPs) at the level of 0.02–0.04 mas in nutation and 0.01–0.02 mas in polar motion. We examine the
stability of position time-series of the 107 radio sources in the current NASA geodetic source catalog since these sources
have relatively dense observing histories from which it is possible to detect systematic variations. We consider different
strategies for handling source instabilities where we (1) estimate the positions of unstable sources for each session they
are observed, or (2) estimate spline parameters or rate parameters for sources chosen to fit the specific variation seen in
the position-time series. We found that some strategies improve VLBI EOP accuracy by reducing the biases and weighted root
mean square differences between measurements from independent VLBI networks operating simultaneously. We discuss the problem
of identifying frequently observed unstable sources and how to identify new sources to replace these unstable sources in the
NASA VLBI geodetic source catalog. 相似文献
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Uncertainties in polar motion and length-of-day measurements are evaluated empirically using several data series from the space-geodetic techniques of the global positioning system (GPS), satellite laser ranging (SLR), and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) during 1997–2002. In the evaluation procedure employed here, known as the three-corner hat (TCH) technique, the signal common to each series is eliminated by forming pair-wise differences between the series, thus requiring no assumed values for the “truth” signal. From the variances of the differenced series, the uncertainty of each series can be recovered when reasonable assumptions are made about the correlations between the series. In order to form the pair-wise differences, the series data must be given at the same epoch. All measurement data sets studied here were sampled at noon (UTC); except for the VLBI series, whose data are interpolated to noon and whose UT1 values are also numerically differentiated to obtain LOD. The numerical error introduced to the VLBI values by the interpolation and differentiation is shown to be comparable in magnitude to the values determined by the TCH method for the uncertainties of the VLBI series. The TCH estimates for the VLBI series are corrupted by such numerical errors mostly as a result of the relatively large data intervals. Of the remaining data sets studied here, it is found that the IGS Final combined series has the smallest polar motion and length-of-day uncertainties. 相似文献
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The impact of errors in polar motion and nutation on UT1 determinations from VLBI Intensive observations 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
The earth’s phase of rotation, expressed as Universal Time UT1, is the most variable component of the earth’s rotation. Continuous
monitoring of this quantity is realised through daily single-baseline VLBI observations which are interleaved with VLBI network
observations. The accuracy of these single-baseline observations is established mainly through statistically determined standard
deviations of the adjustment process although the results of these measurements are prone to systematic errors. The two major
effects are caused by inaccuracies in the polar motion and nutation angles introduced as a priori values which propagate into
the UT1 results. In this paper, we analyse the transfer of these components into UT1 depending on the two VLBI baselines being
used for short duration UT1 monitoring. We develop transfer functions of the errors in polar motion and nutation into the
UT1 estimates. Maximum values reach 30 [μs per milliarcsecond] which is quite large considering that observations of nutation
offsets w.r.t. the state-of-the-art nutation model show deviations of as much as one milliarcsecond. 相似文献
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Combinations of station coordinates and velocities from independent space-geodetic techniques have long been the standard
method to realize robust global terrestrial reference frames (TRFs). In principle, the particular strengths of one observing
method can compensate for weaknesses in others if the combination is properly constructed, suitable weights are found, and
accurate co-location ties are available. More recently, the methodology has been extended to combine time-series of results
at the normal equation level. This allows Earth orientation parameters (EOPs) to be included and aligned in a fully consistent
way with the TRF. While the utility of such multi-technique combinations is generally recognized for the reference frame,
the benefits for the EOPs are yet to be quantitatively assessed. In this contribution, which is a sequel to a recent paper
on co-location ties (Ray and Altamimi in J Geod 79(4–5): 189–195, 2005), we have studied test combinations of very long baseline
interferometry (VLBI) and Global Positioning System (GPS) time-series solutions to evaluate the effects on combined EOP measurements
compared with geophysical excitations. One expects any effect to be small, considering that GPS dominates the polar motion
estimates due to its relatively dense and uniform global network coverage, high precision, continuous daily sampling, and
homogeneity, while VLBI alone observes UT1-UTC. Presently, although clearly desirable, we see no practical method to rigorously
include the GPS estimates of length-of-day variations due to significant time-varying biases. Nevertheless, our results, which
are the first of this type, indicate that more accurate polar motion from GPS contributes to improved UT1-UTC results from
VLBI. The situation with combined polar motion is more complex. The VLBI data contribute directly only very slightly, if at
all, with an impact that is probably affected by the weakness of the current VLBI networks (small size and sparseness) and
the quality of local ties relating the VLBI and GPS frames. Instead, the VLBI polar motion information is used primarily in
rotationally aligning the VLBI and GPS frames, thereby reducing the dependence on co-location tie information. Further research
is needed to determine an optimal VLBI-GPS combination strategy that yields the highest quality EOP estimates. Improved local
ties (including internal systematic effects within the techniques) will be critically important in such an effort. 相似文献
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目前正处在下一代甚长基线干涉测量（very long baseline interferometry,VLBI）系统的建设时期。利用维也纳VLBI与卫星软件（Vienna VLBI and satellite software,VieVS）解算了2006—2015年的VLBI数据,得到了10 a的地球定向参数（Earth orientation parameters,EOP）时间序列,并与国际地球自转服务机构的结果进行了对比。利用解算结果得到了10 a的日长变化时间序列,通过傅里叶分析得出了日长变化的短周期、半月周期、月周期、半年周期和周年周期,同时还分析得到了极移序列中的周年项和张德勒周期项以及章动改正序列中的自由核章动项。此次解算工作可为武汉大学卫星台站日后的VLBI数据解析积累一定的经验。 相似文献
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Alessandra Bertarini Alan L. Roy Brian Corey R. Craig Walker Walter Alef Axel Nothnagel 《Journal of Geodesy》2011,85(10):715-721
Geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) delivers time series of station positions and Earth orientation parameters.
These series offer a viable and precise way to study Earth crustal and core dynamics and to support space navigation. Their
accuracy is degraded by instrumental errors, of which polarization leakage is considered to be one of the largest that is
not yet being addressed. Its effect on the data can be corrected, provided one knows the leakage characteristics of the receivers.
For this purpose, we designed a VLBI session to measure the polarization leakage at 15 geodetic and very long baseline array
stations over the frequency range from 8,212.99 to 8,932.99 MHz. We describe the polarization leakage measurements and the
algorithm that was implemented to correct for its effect on the geodetic delay observables. Subsequently, we applied the correction
for polarization leakage to the same data that were used to determine the leakage and checked for the resulting improvement.
From the measured leakage terms, one would expect polarization leakage to affect the group delay measurements in 90% of the
cases by 1.6 ps or less. This proved to be below the statistical noise in our single VLBI session, and hence, an improvement
from the correction could not be detected. Applying this analysis in the context of VLBI2010, we provide a specification for
the allowable polarization leakage to achieve the target submillimetre accuracy. 相似文献
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Natalia Panafidina Urs Hugentobler Manuela Seitz Hana Krásná 《Journal of Geodesy》2017,91(12):1503-1512
This paper studies the connection between the subdaily model for polar motion used in the processing of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations and the estimated nutation offsets. By convention accepted by the International Earth Rotation Service, the subdaily model for polar motion recommended for routine processing of geodetic observations does not contain any daily retrograde terms due to their one-to-one correlation with the nutation. Nevertheless, for a 24-h VLBI solution a part of the signal contained in the polar motion given by the used subdaily model is numerically mistaken for a retrograde daily sidereal signal. This fictitious retrograde daily signal contributes to the estimated nutation, leading to systematic differences between the nutation offsets from VLBI solutions computed with different subdaily polar motion models. We demonstrate this effect using solutions for all suitable 24-h VLBI sessions over a time span of 11 years (2000–2011). By changing the amplitudes of one tidal term in the underlying subdaily model for polar motion and comparing the estimated parameters to the solutions computed with the unchanged subdaily model, the paper shows and explains theoretically the effects produced by the individual subdaily terms on the VLBI nutation estimates. 相似文献
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利用PANDA软件解算2016年第61~91天的MGEX(Multi-GNSS Experiment)服务站的北斗数据,获得地球自转参数(ERP)。利用VieVS2.2软件处理了同时段的甚长基线干涉测量(VLBI)数据。采用基于IERS 08C04序列的定权方法对BDS和VLBI的解算结果进行加权平均,得到综合的ERP值。结果表明,与IERS比较,极移在X方向差值的RMS为0.249 mas,Y方向差值的RMS为0.296 mas,UT1-UTC差值的RMS为0.053 ms.利用BDS与VLBI数据对ERP参数进行联合解算,弥补了BDS解算结果不稳定和VLBI观测不连续的缺陷,使解算结果的稳定性和可靠性均有所提高。 相似文献
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European geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) sessions (also known as EUROPE sessions) have been carried out
on a regular basis for the past 15 years to study relative crustal motions within Europe. These sessions are based on observations
of extragalactic radio sources, which serve as distant fiducial marks to establish an accurate and stable celestial reference
frame for long-term geodetic measurements. The radio sources, however, are not always point-like on milliarcsecond scales,
as VLBI imaging has revealed. In this work, we quantify the magnitude of the expected effect of intrinsic source structure
on geodetic bandwidth synthesis delay VLBI measurements for a subset of 14 sources regularly observed during the EUROPE sessions.
These sources have been imaged at both X-band (8.4 GHz) and S-band (2.3 GHz) based on dedicated observations acquired with
the European VLBI Network (EVN) in November 1996. The results of this calculation indicate that the reference source 0457+024
causes significant structural effects in measurements obtained on European VLBI baselines (about 10 picoseconds on average),
whereas most of the other sources produce effects that are only occasionally larger than a few picoseconds. Applying the derived
source structure models to the data of the EUROPE5-96 session carried out at the same epoch as the EVN experiment shows no
noticeable changes in the estimated VLBI station locations. 相似文献
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Lucia Plank Andreas Hellerschmied Jamie McCallum Johannes Böhm Jim Lovell 《Journal of Geodesy》2017,91(7):867-880
The possibility of observing satellites with the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique has been discussed for several years in the geodetic community, with observations of either existing satellites of the global navigation satellite systems or of satellites dedicated to realise a space tie. Such observations were carried out using the Australian telescopes in Hobart and Ceduna which, for the first time, integrated all the necessary steps: planning the observations (automated scheduling), correlation of the data and the generation of a series of time delay observables suitable for a subsequent geodetic analysis. We report on the development of new and the adaptation of existing routines for observing and data processing, focusing on technology development. The aim was to use methods that are routinely used in geodetic VLBI. A series of test experiments of up to six hours duration was performed, allowing to improve the observations from session to session and revealing new problems still to be solved. The newly developed procedures and programs now enable more observations. Further development assumed, this bears the prospect of being directly applied to the observation of dedicated space-tie satellites. 相似文献
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在国际甚长基线干涉测量（very long baseline interferometry, VLBI）大地测量与天体测量服务组织协调下,首次利用隶属于VLBI全球观测系统（VLBI global observing system, VGOS）的美国Kokee和德国Wettzell观测站及并置的传统VLBI观测站开展了世界时（universal time, UT1）联合测量试验,观测数据在上海VLBI中心进行了干涉处理。结果表明,VGOS超宽带观测系统的UT1测量精度约为7 μs,并置基线的传统S/X双频系统测量精度约为14 μs,VGOS系统的UT1解算结果优于S/X系统。通过试验建立了从相关处理、相关后处理到UT1参数解算的完整数据处理流程,验证了上海VLBI相关处理机的VGOS数据处理能力,为承担国内和国际VGOS观测数据的相关处理任务奠定了基础。 相似文献
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H. Bâki Iz 《Journal of Geodesy》2006,80(5):259-269
In order to make successful earthquake predictions, detection and monitoring of baseline changes are important for investigating their origins, including precursory crustal deformations in tectonically active areas. In this study, differencing two baselines that run approximately parallel to each other and normal to the expected crustal deformations, and that share a station is proposed for analysis. Differencing reduces common systematic baseline errors, thereby enabling detection of subtle transient systematic changes in the baseline time-series that are otherwise buried in the measurement noise. Mean shift analysis, a well-known statistical technique to determine hether the mean of a stochastic process has shifted using cumulative sum charts, can then be used to locate the change points in the time-series. The application of this method to the differences of concurrently observed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) and global positioning system (GPS) baselines in the Japanese Keystone project, where periodic and persistent baseline changes are removed, revealed transient variations in the baseline lengths several months prior to the seismic activity in the Izu Islands that started on June 26, 2000. Reproduction of the results using GPS and VLBI, two alternative baseline measurement techniques, validated the accuracy of the proposed approach for detecting previously hidden transient changes in the baseline lengths. 相似文献
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Zinovy Malkin 《Journal of Geodesy》2013,87(6):505-514
UT1 estimates obtained from the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) Intensives data depend on the station displacement model used during processing. In particular, because of seasonal variations, the instantaneous station position during the specific intensive session differs from the position predicted by the linear model generally used. This can cause systematic errors in UT1 Intensives results. In this paper, we first investigated the seasonal signal in the station displacements for the 5 VLBI antennas participating in UT1 Intensives observing programs, along with the 8 collocated GPS stations. It was found that a significant annual term is present in the time series for most stations, and its amplitude can reach 8 mm in the height component, and 2 mm in horizontal components. However, the annual signals found in the displacements of the collocated VLBI and GPS stations at some sites differ substantially in amplitude and phase. The semiannual harmonics are relatively small and unstable, and for most stations no prevailing signal was found in the corresponding frequency band. Then two UT1 Intensives series were computed with and without including the seasonal term found in the previous step in the station movement model. Comparison of these series has shown that neglecting the seasonal station position variations can cause a systematic error in UT1 estimates, which can exceed 1 $\upmu $ s, depending on the observing program. 相似文献
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Temperature variations at very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) sites cause thermal deformations of the VLBI antennas and
corresponding displacements of the VLBI reference points. The thermal deformation effects typically contain seasonal and daily
signatures. The amplitudes of the annual vertical motion of the antenna reference point can reach several millimeters, depending
on the design of the antenna structure, on the material, and on the environmental effects such as global station position,
station height and climatology effects. Simple methods to correct this effect use the difference of the environmental temperature
with respect to a defined reference temperature, the antenna dimensions, the elevation of the antenna, the material of antenna
structure. Applying these simple models for thermal deformation in the VLBI data analysis improves the baseline length repeatability
by 3.5%. A comparison of these simple models with local thermal deformation measurements at the antennas in Onsala and Wettzell
show that the local measurements and the modeled corrections agree well when the temperature of the antenna structure is used,
but agree less good when the surrounding air temperatures are used. To overcome this problem we present a method to model
temperature penetration into the antenna structures, that allows to model thermal deformation effects that agree with the
observed vertical deformation of the Onsala and Wettzell radio telescopes with a root mean square deviation of 0.07 and 0.13 mm,
respectively. Possible implementations in the VLBI analysis are presented, and the definition of an adequate reference temperature
is discussed. 相似文献
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Combined Earth orientation parameters based on homogeneous and continuous VLBI and GPS data 总被引：1，自引：3，他引：1
Daniela Thaller Manuela Krügel Markus Rothacher Volker Tesmer Ralf Schmid Detlef Angermann 《Journal of Geodesy》2007,81(6-8):529-541
The CONT02 campaign is of great interest for studies combining very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) with other space-geodetic
techniques, because of the continuously available VLBI observations over 2 weeks in October 2002 from a homogeneous network.
Especially, the combination with the Global Positioning System (GPS) offers a broad spectrum of common parameters. We combined
station coordinates, Earth orientation parameters (EOPs) and troposphere parameters consistently in one solution using technique-
specific datum-free normal equation systems. In this paper, we focus on the analyses concerning the EOPs, whereas the comparison
and combination of the troposphere parameters and station coordinates are covered in a companion paper in Journal of Geodesy. In order to demonstrate the potential of the VLBI and GPS space-geodetic techniques, we chose a sub-daily resolution for
polar motion (PM) and universal time (UT). A consequence of this solution set-up is the presence of a one-to-one correlation
between the nutation angles and a retrograde diurnal signal in PM. The Bernese GPS Software used for the combination provides
a constraining approach to handle this singularity. Simulation studies involving both nutation offsets and rates helped to
get a deeper understanding of this singularity. With a rigorous combination of UT1–UTC and length of day (LOD) from VLBI and
GPS, we showed that such a combination works very well and does not suffer from the systematic effects present in the GPS-derived
LOD values. By means of wavelet analyses and the formal errors of the estimates, we explain this important result. The same
holds for the combination of nutation offsets and rates. The local geodetic ties between GPS and VLBI antennas play an essential
role within the inter-technique combination. Several studies already revealed non-negligible discrepancies between the terrestrial
measurements and the space-geodetic solutions. We demonstrate to what extent these discrepancies propagate into the combined
EOP solution. 相似文献
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“嫦娥5号”探测器的组成包括轨道器、返回器、着陆器和上升器。在环月阶段,两个组合体(轨道器/返回器组合体和着陆器/上升器组合体)之间的分离实时监测,是飞行控制的关键检测段。本文提出利用甚长基线干涉测量(VLBI)测轨技术实现绕月探测器器间分离实时监测。特别是在器间分离前后,本文方法能够利用探测器器间两路下行信号进行同波束干涉测量(SBI),差分时延测量能够提高器间相对距离的解算精度。单基线试验分析表明,本文方法基于实测数据的“嫦娥3号”着陆器两天线的相对距离解算精度优于0.3m,平均相对距离误差约为0.15m,基于“嫦娥5号”仿真数据的双阈值判定对器间分离监测的响应时延优于30s。 相似文献
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Summary In the last three years, the European Geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network has grown to a total of six fixed antennas placed in Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden, all equipped with the standard geodetic VLBI instrumentation and data recording systems. During this period of time, several experiments have been carried out using this interferometer providing data of very high quality due to the excellent sensitivity and performance of the European stations. The purpose of this paper is to study the consistency of the VLBI geodetic results on the European baselines with respect to the different degrees of freedom in the analysis procedure. In order to complete this study we have made use of both real and simulated data sets, two different software packages (OCCAM 3.0 and CALC 7.4/SOLVE) and a variety of strategies in the data analysis. The results we have obtained show that the repeatability of the VLBI estimates of the baseline lengths in the European network is better than one centimeter, independent of the different analysis methods, and is consistent with the formal error levels expected from the data analysis. This consistency should be enough to produce geophysically significant information in Europe from VLBI data within a relatively short time span. 相似文献
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The International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) regularly produces high-quality Earth orientation parameters from observing sessions employing extensive networks or individual baselines. The master schedule is designed according to the telescope days committed by the stations and by the need for dense sampling of the Earth orientation parameters (EOP). In the pre-2011 era, the network constellations with their number of telescopes participating were limited by the playback and baseline capabilities of the hardware (Mark4) correlators. This limitation was overcome by the advent of software correlators, which can now accommodate many more playback units in a flexible configuration. In this paper, we describe the current operations of the IVS with special emphasis on the quality of the polar motion results since these are the only EOP components which can be validated against independent benchmarks. The polar motion results provided by the IVS have improved continuously over the years, now providing an agreement with IGS results at the level of 20–25 \(\upmu \)as in a WRMS sense. At the end of the paper, an outlook is given for the realization of the VLBI Global Observing System. 相似文献
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Johannes Boehm Robert Heinkelmann Paulo Jorge Mendes Cerveira Andrea Pany Harald Schuh 《Journal of Geodesy》2009,83(11):1107-1113
This paper investigates whether in very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) analysis atmospheric loading corrections should
be applied a priori at the observation level or whether it is sufficient to correct for atmospheric loading effects a posteriori
by adding constant values per session to the estimated station coordinates. Simulated observations at single stations corresponding
to the precise point positioning approach of global navigation satellite systems show that the atmospheric loading effect
can be fully recovered by a posteriori corrections, i.e., the height differences between both approaches stay well below 1 mm.
However, real global VLBI network solutions with sessions from 1984 to 2008 reveal that the effect of neglected atmospheric
loading corrections at the stations is distributed to the other stations in the network, thus resulting in station height
differences between solutions with observation level and with a posteriori corrections which can be as large as 10 mm and
a ‘damping’ effect of the corrections. As soon as the terrestrial reference frame and the corresponding coordinate time series
are determined, it would be conceptually wrong to apply atmospheric loading corrections at the VLBI stations. We recommend
the rigorous application of atmospheric loading corrections at the observation level to all stations of a VLBI network because
the seven parameters for translation, rotation, and in particular the network-scale of VLBI networks are significantly affected. 相似文献