The 13th General Meeting of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) took place from 4 to 9 March 2024 at the Tsukuba Congress Center, Japan. The following topics were presented by our group on-site: Geodetic analysis of K band VLBI observations until 2024.0 (Hana Krásná et al.) Q band (43 GHz) celestial […]
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Jakob attended the “15th DiFX Users and Developers Meeting” in Socorro, New Mexico, USA, from September 11 to 15, 2023. This annual meeting is for the future planning, improvement, and documentation of the high-performance DiFX software. The Vienna Correlation Center uses DiFX in its operational and scientific work to process (correlate) raw VLBI data. The […]
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In the week of 11 to 15 June 2023 the 26th European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry (EVGA) Working Meeting took place in Bad Kötzting, Germany, near the collocation station Wettzell. The Vienna VLBI Group participated with the following presentations: Earth orientation parameters estimated from recent Australian mixed-mode and Southern Intensive sessions (Sigrid Böhm […]
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In the week of 22 to 26 May 2023, the radio astronomical conference of the VLBI community took place in Bologna, Italy on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 32-m radio dish in Medicina. Hana Krásná was invited by the Scientific Organizing Committee to give a keynote talk about the relevance and unique […]
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In the week of 17 to 20 October 2022, the IAG International Symposium on Reference Frames for Applications in Geosciences (REFAG) took place in Thessaloniki, Greece. There have been four contributions from the Vienna VLBI group1 and one from the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV)2: Adjustment of orbital elements of Galileo satellite arcs […]
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In the week of 23 to 27 May 2022 the General Assembly 2022 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) took place in Vienna. After almost two years of pandemic, the first-ever fully hybrid EGU brought together over 7000 geoscientists from 89 countries on site and 7000 virtual attendees from 116 countries. In sum, almost 12500 […]
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Today we visited the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRF) and the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) as part of the ADASS2019 conference. Especially LOFAR was very interesting since it is a very innovative new kind of telescope. Although it does not look very fancy, the science which can be done by LOFAR is outstanding. It observes […]
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For the first time, a member of the Higher Geodesy group in Vienna traveled to the Astronomical Data Analysis and Software System (ADASS) conference. This year, ADASS was hosted by the Netherlands in Groningen. Matthias Schartner presented his new VLBI scheduling software VieSched++. Have a look at the abstract.
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The ICRF3 is the most recent realization of the ICRS and was calculated by an IAU working group consisting of resea rchers from all over the world. The Vienna VLBI Center was an active part of this group with Johannes Böhm as an working group member and David Mayer as an PhD student working on […]
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