First Geodetic Observations Using New VLBI Stations ASKAP-29 and WARK12M
Leonid Petrov A G , Chris Phillips B , Tasso Tzioumis B , Bruce Stansby C , Cormac Reynolds C , Hayley E. Bignall C , Sergei Gulyaev D , Tim Natusch D , Neville Palmer E , David Collett F , John E. Reynolds B , Shaun W. Amy B , Randall Wayth C and Steven J. Tingay CA ADNET Systems, Inc./NASA GSFC, Code 610.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
B CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
C International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
D Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research, Auckland University of Technology, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
E GNS Science, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand
F Land Information New Zealand, 160 Lambton Quay, PO Box 5501, Wellington 6145, New Zealand
G Corresponding author. Email: Leonid.Petrov@lpetrov.net
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 28(2) 107-116 https://doi.org/10.1071/AS10048
Submitted: 20 12 2011 Accepted: 25 02 2011 Published: 16 June 2011
Abstract
We report the results of a successful 7-hour 1.4 GHz Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) experiment using two new stations, ASKAP-29 located in Western Australia and WARK12M located on the North Island of New Zealand. This was the first geodetic VLBI observing session with the participation of these new stations. We have determined the positions of ASKAP-29 and WARK12M. Random errors on position estimates are 150–200 mm for the vertical component and 40–50 mm for the horizontal component. Systematic errors caused by the unmodeled ionosphere path delay may reach 1.3 m for the vertical component.
Keywords: instrumentation: interferometers — techniques: interferometric — reference systems
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