摘 要: | Regular high-precision determinations of the Earth’s orientation parameters (EOPs) on the Quasar VLBI Network were begun in
August 2006. The observations are performed within the framework of two national programs: daily sessions at three observatories
of the Network to determine all five EOPs (the RU-E program) and 8-h sessions on the Zelenchukskaya-Badary and Svetloe-Badary
baselines to determine the Universal Time (the RU-U program). The observations from August 2006 through May 2007 are analyzed.
The rms deviations of the EOP values obtained in the RU-E program from the IERS C04 series are 1.1 mas for X
p and Y
p, 37 μs for UT1-UTC, and 0.7 and 0.6 mas for X
c and Y
c, respectively. These results closely match the prospective requirements of GLONASS. The rms deviations of the Universal Times
obtained in the RU-U program from the IERS C04 series are 146 μs. We consider the immediate prospects for improving the accuracy
of EOP determinations in daily sessions and for implementing the e-VLBI mode for an online determination of the Universal
Time.
Original Russian Text ? A.M. Finkelstein, E.A. Skurikhina, I.F. Surkis, A.V. Ipatov, I.A. Rakhimov, S.G. Smolentsev, 2008,
published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2008, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 66–76.
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