Yearly Archives: 2019

Bachelor presentation Markus Mikschi

On September 10, 2019, Markus Mikschi presented his bachelor thesis on the integration of length-of-day values for the determination of UT1. Depending on the calibration, it is possible to achieve an accuracy of 40 microseconds after a week. It should also be noted here, that his presentation was the last one in our “old meeting […]

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DiFX-2.6 released

A new stable major version of DiFX: DiFX-2.6.1 has been released. The source code can be obtained via SVN at: https://svn.atnf.csiro.au/difx/master_tags/DiFX-2.6.1 . Documentation can be found at the DiFX Wiki: https://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/start  

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VSC-4 powered on

In June 2019, the Vienna Scientific Cluster 4 was powered on. This is very good news, because we will have 10 private nodes (480 cores in total) and 1 PByte of storage for correlation activities. Also the Standard (Austrian newspaper) reports about VSC4.

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Paper on VieSched++ published

A paper on “VieSched++: A New VLBI Scheduling Software for Geodesy and Astrometry” by Schartner and Böhm was published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It will serve as reference for the new scheduling software.

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