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16th DiFX Users and Developers Meeting 2024

The 16th DiFX Users and Developers Meeting was held in Vienna from September 9 to 13, 2024. The first two days were devoted to the DiFX Users at the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV) with many interesting presentations also from our Vienna VLBI group. The last three days were dedicated to the DiFX […]

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European VLBI Network Symposium 2024

The 16th European VLBI Network (EVN) Symposium took place in Bonn from September 2nd to 6th, 2024. Frédéric Jaron presented a poster summarizing recent results from a project about the mitigation of source structure in geodetic VLBI. The conference was an excellent opportunity for the discussion with leading experts in the field.

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Vienna VLBI Group at EGU 2024

The General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) took place in Vienna from April 14th to 19th. The Vienna VLBI Group proudly contributed through the following presentations and posters: Benefits for the terrestrial reference frame with VLBI observations to Genesis (Johannes Böhm et al.) Atmospheric excitation of the annual wobble over the 21st-century […]

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Vienna VLBI Group at IVS General Meeting 2024

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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15th DiFX Users and Developers Meeting 2023

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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Vienna VLBI Group at EVGA 2023

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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Bologna VLBI: Life begins at 40!

  • 2023-05-30
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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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Vienna VLBI Group at REFAG 2022

  • 2022-11-09
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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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Vienna VLBI Group at EGU 2022

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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Visit of WSRT and LOFAR

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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