Radio interferometric determination of source positions, intercontinental baselines, and earth orientation with Deep Space Network antennas: 1971 to 1980

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May 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983tdar.nasa..128t&link_type=abstract

In its The Telecommun. and Data Acquisition Rept. p 128-155 (SEE N83-28025 17-12)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Deep Space Network, Earth Orientation, Extragalactic Radio Sources, Radio Interferometers, Earth Crust, Earth Rotation, Earth Tides

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Approximately 2400 observations of extragalactic radio sources were made between August 1971 and February 1980 during 48 separate sessions. These consisted of 259 delay rate observations at 2.3 GHz (S-band), 796 delay and delay rate observations at either S-band of 8.3 GHz (X-band) and 1325 delay and delay rate observations recorded simultaneously at both S- and X-band. A single multiparameter fit has been applied to the observed values of delay and delay rate to extract astrometric and geophysical parameters from this decade-long sequence. The fit produced estimates of 784 parameters, including station locations, radio source positions, polar motion, Universal Time, the precession constant, and solid earth tides. The a priori model included gravitational bending, the 1980 IAU nutation series, the 1976 IAU expressions for Greenwich mean sidereal time and precession, BIH estimates of Universal Time and polar motion, and monthly mean values for zenith troposphere delay. The rms residuals were 0.52 nsec for delay and 0.30 psec/sec for delay rate. Intercontinental baseline lengths were determined with formal uncertainties of 5 to 10 cm. Universal Time and polar motion were measured at 49 epochs, with formal uncertainties (for the more recent data) of 0.5 msec for UT1 and 6 and 2 mas, respectively, for the X and Y components of polar motion.

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