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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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Vienna contribution to ADASS2019

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 here

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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