Improved UT1 predictions through low-latency VLBI observations

Details Improved UT1 predictions through low-latency VLBI observations Improved UT1 predictions through low-latency VLBI observations

Jun 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jgeod..84..399l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geodesy, Volume 84, Issue 6, pp.399-402

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Ut1 Predictions, Vlbi Intensive Observations

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The quality of predictions of Earth orientation parameters (EOPs) in general, and of Universal Time (UT1) in particular, depends strongly on the time delay between the last observation available and the first prediction. Since 30 September 2007 (MJD 54373), the latency of UT1 results from a subset of single baseline VLBI observations running once per week (Mondays) has been decreased from 2 to 3 days to about 8 h. This was achieved by transmitting the raw VLBI data of 1-h duration from the observing sites in Tsukuba (Japan), Wettzell (Germany) and Ny-Ålesund (Norway) to the correlator of the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy and the German Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy at Bonn, Germany, by high-speed Internet connections (e-Transfer). The reduced latency of the observations has improved the accuracy of the combined International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) Rapid Service/Prediction Center (RS/PC) UT1-UTC solution by roughly 50% on the days when the data are available. Because this combination is an input to the UT1-UTC prediction process, the improved latency is also responsible for a roughly 21% improvement in the accuracy of short-term IERS RS/PC UT1-UTC predictions on the days where the data are available.

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