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Temperature variations at very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) sites cause thermal deformations of the VLBI antennas and
corresponding displacements of the VLBI reference points. The thermal deformation effects typically contain seasonal and daily
signatures. The amplitudes of the annual vertical motion of the antenna reference point can reach several millimeters, depending
on the design of the antenna structure, on the material, and on the environmental effects such as global station position,
station height and climatology effects. Simple methods to correct this effect use the difference of the environmental temperature
with respect to a defined reference temperature, the antenna dimensions, the elevation of the antenna, the material of antenna
structure. Applying these simple models for thermal deformation in the VLBI data analysis improves the baseline length repeatability
by 3.5%. A comparison of these simple models with local thermal deformation measurements at the antennas in Onsala and Wettzell
show that the local measurements and the modeled corrections agree well when the temperature of the antenna structure is used,
but agree less good when the surrounding air temperatures are used. To overcome this problem we present a method to model
temperature penetration into the antenna structures, that allows to model thermal deformation effects that agree with the
observed vertical deformation of the Onsala and Wettzell radio telescopes with a root mean square deviation of 0.07 and 0.13 mm,
respectively. Possible implementations in the VLBI analysis are presented, and the definition of an adequate reference temperature
is discussed. 相似文献
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Combinations of station coordinates and velocities from independent space-geodetic techniques have long been the standard
method to realize robust global terrestrial reference frames (TRFs). In principle, the particular strengths of one observing
method can compensate for weaknesses in others if the combination is properly constructed, suitable weights are found, and
accurate co-location ties are available. More recently, the methodology has been extended to combine time-series of results
at the normal equation level. This allows Earth orientation parameters (EOPs) to be included and aligned in a fully consistent
way with the TRF. While the utility of such multi-technique combinations is generally recognized for the reference frame,
the benefits for the EOPs are yet to be quantitatively assessed. In this contribution, which is a sequel to a recent paper
on co-location ties (Ray and Altamimi in J Geod 79(4–5): 189–195, 2005), we have studied test combinations of very long baseline
interferometry (VLBI) and Global Positioning System (GPS) time-series solutions to evaluate the effects on combined EOP measurements
compared with geophysical excitations. One expects any effect to be small, considering that GPS dominates the polar motion
estimates due to its relatively dense and uniform global network coverage, high precision, continuous daily sampling, and
homogeneity, while VLBI alone observes UT1-UTC. Presently, although clearly desirable, we see no practical method to rigorously
include the GPS estimates of length-of-day variations due to significant time-varying biases. Nevertheless, our results, which
are the first of this type, indicate that more accurate polar motion from GPS contributes to improved UT1-UTC results from
VLBI. The situation with combined polar motion is more complex. The VLBI data contribute directly only very slightly, if at
all, with an impact that is probably affected by the weakness of the current VLBI networks (small size and sparseness) and
the quality of local ties relating the VLBI and GPS frames. Instead, the VLBI polar motion information is used primarily in
rotationally aligning the VLBI and GPS frames, thereby reducing the dependence on co-location tie information. Further research
is needed to determine an optimal VLBI-GPS combination strategy that yields the highest quality EOP estimates. Improved local
ties (including internal systematic effects within the techniques) will be critically important in such an effort. 相似文献
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James M. Anderson Georg Beyerle Susanne Glaser Li Liu Benjamin Männel Tobias Nilsson Robert Heinkelmann Harald Schuh 《Journal of Geodesy》2018,92(9):1023-1046
We performed Monte Carlo simulations of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of Earth-orbiting satellites incorporating co-located space-geodetic instruments in order to study how well the VLBI frame and the spacecraft frame can be tied using such measurements. We simulated observations of spacecraft by VLBI observations, time-of-flight (TOF) measurements using a time-encoded signal in the spacecraft transmission, similar in concept to precise point positioning, and differential VLBI (D-VLBI) observations using angularly nearby quasar calibrators to compare their relative performance. We used the proposed European Geodetic Reference Antenna in Space (E-GRASP) mission as an initial test case for our software. We found that the standard VLBI technique is limited, in part, by the present lack of knowledge of the absolute offset of VLBI time to Coordinated Universal Time at the level of microseconds. TOF measurements are better able to overcome this problem and provide frame ties with uncertainties in translation and scale nearly a factor of three smaller than those yielded from VLBI measurements. If the absolute time offset issue can be resolved by external means, the VLBI results can be significantly improved and can come close to providing 1 mm accuracy in the frame tie parameters. D-VLBI observations with optimum performance assumptions provide roughly a factor of two higher uncertainties for the E-GRASP orbit. We additionally simulated how station and spacecraft position offsets affect the frame tie performance. 相似文献
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The source position time-series for many of the frequently observed radio sources in the NASA geodetic very long baseline
interferometry (VLBI) program show systematic linear and non-linear variations of as much as 0.5 mas (milli-arc-seconds) to
1.0 mas, due mainly to source structure changes. In standard terrestrial reference frame (TRF) geodetic solutions, it is a
common practice to only estimate a global source position for each source over the entire history of VLBI observing sessions.
If apparent source position variations are not modeled, they produce corresponding systematic variations in estimated Earth
orientation parameters (EOPs) at the level of 0.02–0.04 mas in nutation and 0.01–0.02 mas in polar motion. We examine the
stability of position time-series of the 107 radio sources in the current NASA geodetic source catalog since these sources
have relatively dense observing histories from which it is possible to detect systematic variations. We consider different
strategies for handling source instabilities where we (1) estimate the positions of unstable sources for each session they
are observed, or (2) estimate spline parameters or rate parameters for sources chosen to fit the specific variation seen in
the position-time series. We found that some strategies improve VLBI EOP accuracy by reducing the biases and weighted root
mean square differences between measurements from independent VLBI networks operating simultaneously. We discuss the problem
of identifying frequently observed unstable sources and how to identify new sources to replace these unstable sources in the
NASA VLBI geodetic source catalog. 相似文献
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A 29-year time-series of four-times-daily atmospheric effective angular momentum (EAM) estimates is used to study the atmospheric
influence on nutation. The most important atmospheric contributions are found for the prograde annual (77 μas), retrograde
annual (53 as), prograde semiannual (45 as), and for the constant offset of the pole (δψsinɛ0=−86 as, δɛ=77 as). Among them only the prograde semiannual component is driven mostly by the wind term of the EAM function,
while in all other cases the pressure term is dominant. These are nonnegligible quantities which should be taken into account
in the new theory of nutation. Comparison with the VLBI corrections to the IAU 1980 nutation model taking into account the
ocean tide contribution yields good agreement for the prograde annual and semiannual nutations. We also investigated time
variability of the atmospheric contribution to the nutation amplitudes by performing the sliding-window least-squares analysis
of both the atmospheric excitation and VLBI nutation data. Almost all detected variations of atmospheric origin can be attributed
to the pressure term, the biggest being the in-phase annual prograde component (about 30 as) and the retrograde one (as much
as 100200 as). These variations, if physical, limit the precision of classical modeling of nutation to the level of 0.1 mas.
Comparison with the VLBI data shows significant correlation for the retrograde annual nutation after 1989, while for the prograde
annual term there is a high correlation in shape but the size of the atmospherically driven variations is about three times
less than deduced from the VLBI data. This discrepancy in size can be attributed either to inaccuracy of the theoretical transfer
function or the frequency-dependent ocean response to the pressure variations. Our comparison also yields a considerably better
agreement with the VLBI nutation data when using the EAM function without the IB correction for ocean response, which indicates
that this correction is not adequate for nearly diurnal variations.
Received: 10 September 1997 / Accepted: 5 March 1998 相似文献
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In recent years, ocean tide loading displacements (OTLD) have been measured using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). This study assesses the accuracy of GPS measurements of OTLD by comparison with
VLBI measurements and estimates derived from numerical ocean tide models. A daily precise point positioning (PPP) analysis
was carried out on ∼11 years of GPS data for each of 25 sites that have previous OTLD estimates based on data from co-located
VLBI sites. Ambiguities were fixed to integer values where possible. The resulting daily estimates of OTLD, at eight principal
diurnal and semi-diurnal tidal frequencies, were combined to give GPS measurements of OTLD at each site. The 3D GPS and VLBI
measurements of OTLD were compared with estimates computed (by convolution with Green’s functions) from five modern ocean
tide models (CSR4.0, FES2004, GOT00.2, NAO99b and TPXO6.2). The GPS/model agreement is shown to be similar to the VLBI/model
agreement. In the important radial direction, the GPS/model misfit is shown to be smaller than the VLBI/model misfit for seven
of the eight tidal constituents; the exception being the K2 constituent. Fixing of GPS carrier-phase ambiguities to integer
values resulted in a marginal improvement to the GPS/model agreement. Statistically, it is shown there is no significance
to the difference between the fit of the GPS and VLBI measurements of OTLD to modelled values. Equally, differences in fit
of either the complete set of GPS or VLBI estimates to the five sets of model-derived values cannot be identified with statistical
significance. It is thus concluded that, overall, we cannot distinguish between GPS and VLBI measurements of OTLD, and that
at the global scale, present ocean tide models are accurate to within the current measurement noise of these techniques. 相似文献
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At the present time, the daily VLBI observations on the Westford-Wettzell baseline is the only continually running VLBI project
for studies of high-frequency Earth rotation variations. An analysis of this experiment with regard to the potential errors
in the atmospheric delay model and in adopted celestial and terrestrial reference frames is presented in the paper. A new
VLBI geometric delay model is applied and an algorithm for global adjustment for this specific single-baseline VLBI developed.
The results over three years show discrepancies at the milliarcsecond level between the daily observations and the adopted
atmospheric model as well as the combined celestial reference frame. A significant number of these discrepancies are removed
by the global adjustment.
Received: 19 August 1996; Accepted: 13 September 1996 相似文献
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Height bias and scale effect induced by antenna gravitational deformations in geodetic VLBI data analysis 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
The impact of signal path variations (SPVs) caused by antenna gravitational deformations on geodetic very long baseline interferometry
(VLBI) results is evaluated for the first time. Elevation-dependent models of SPV for Medicina and Noto (Italy) telescopes
were derived from a combination of terrestrial surveying methods to account for gravitational deformations. After applying
these models in geodetic VLBI data analysis, estimates of the antenna reference point positions are shifted upward by 8.9
and 6.7 mm, respectively. The impact on other parameters is negligible. To simulate the impact of antenna gravitational deformations
on the entire VLBI network, lacking measurements for other telescopes, we rescaled the SPV models of Medicina and Noto for
other antennas according to their size. The effects of the simulations are changes in VLBI heights in the range [−3, 73] mm
and a net scale increase of 0.3–0.8 ppb. The height bias is larger than random errors of VLBI position estimates, implying
the possibility of significant scale distortions related to antenna gravitational deformations. This demonstrates the need
to precisely measure gravitational deformations of other VLBI telescopes, to derive their precise SPV models and to apply
them in routine geodetic data analysis. 相似文献
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A new and comprehensive method is presented that can be used for estimating eccentricity vectors between global positioning system (GPS) antennas, doppler orbitography and radiopositioning integrated by satellites (DORIS) antennas, azimuth-elevation (AZ-EL) very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) telescopes, and satellite laser ranging (SLR) and lunar laser ranging (LLR) telescopes. The problem of reference point (RP) definition for these space-geodetic instruments is addressed and computed using terrestrial triangulation and electronic distance measurement (EDM) trilateration. The practical ground operations, the surveying approach and the terrestrial data processing are briefly illustrated, and the post-processing procedure is discussed. It is a geometrically based analytical approach that allows computation of RPs along with a rigorous statistical treatment of measurements. The tight connection between the geometrical model and the surveying procedure is emphasized. The computation of the eccentricity vector and the associated variance–covariance matrix between an AZ-EL VLBI telescope (with or without intersecting axes) and a GPS choke ring antenna is concentrated upon, since these are fundamental for computing the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF). An extension to RP computation and eccentricity vectors involving DORIS, SLR and LLR techniques is also presented. Numerical examples of the quality that can be reached using the authors approach are given. Working data sets were acquired in the years 2001 and 2002 at the radioastronomical observatory of Medicina (Italy), and have been used to estimate two VLBI-GPS eccentricity vectors and the corresponding SINEX files. 相似文献
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Uncertainties in polar motion and length-of-day measurements are evaluated empirically using several data series from the space-geodetic techniques of the global positioning system (GPS), satellite laser ranging (SLR), and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) during 1997–2002. In the evaluation procedure employed here, known as the three-corner hat (TCH) technique, the signal common to each series is eliminated by forming pair-wise differences between the series, thus requiring no assumed values for the “truth” signal. From the variances of the differenced series, the uncertainty of each series can be recovered when reasonable assumptions are made about the correlations between the series. In order to form the pair-wise differences, the series data must be given at the same epoch. All measurement data sets studied here were sampled at noon (UTC); except for the VLBI series, whose data are interpolated to noon and whose UT1 values are also numerically differentiated to obtain LOD. The numerical error introduced to the VLBI values by the interpolation and differentiation is shown to be comparable in magnitude to the values determined by the TCH method for the uncertainties of the VLBI series. The TCH estimates for the VLBI series are corrupted by such numerical errors mostly as a result of the relatively large data intervals. Of the remaining data sets studied here, it is found that the IGS Final combined series has the smallest polar motion and length-of-day uncertainties. 相似文献
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European geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) sessions (also known as EUROPE sessions) have been carried out
on a regular basis for the past 15 years to study relative crustal motions within Europe. These sessions are based on observations
of extragalactic radio sources, which serve as distant fiducial marks to establish an accurate and stable celestial reference
frame for long-term geodetic measurements. The radio sources, however, are not always point-like on milliarcsecond scales,
as VLBI imaging has revealed. In this work, we quantify the magnitude of the expected effect of intrinsic source structure
on geodetic bandwidth synthesis delay VLBI measurements for a subset of 14 sources regularly observed during the EUROPE sessions.
These sources have been imaged at both X-band (8.4 GHz) and S-band (2.3 GHz) based on dedicated observations acquired with
the European VLBI Network (EVN) in November 1996. The results of this calculation indicate that the reference source 0457+024
causes significant structural effects in measurements obtained on European VLBI baselines (about 10 picoseconds on average),
whereas most of the other sources produce effects that are only occasionally larger than a few picoseconds. Applying the derived
source structure models to the data of the EUROPE5-96 session carried out at the same epoch as the EVN experiment shows no
noticeable changes in the estimated VLBI station locations. 相似文献
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针对月球车定位,设计和推导了一种基于甚长基线干涉测量(very long baseline interferometry,VLBI)和天文导航系统(celestial navigation system,CNS)相结合的月球车联合定位方法,并采用联邦卡尔曼滤波来实现位置信息的最优估计以增强系统的可靠性和容错能力。最后,通过嫦娥-3号(CE-3)实测数据的解算证明了该方法较使用最小二乘法进行联合解算和单独采用VLBI方法定位,可以获得更高的月球车定位精度。同时,也有效地保障了月球车定位的可靠性和稳定性。 相似文献
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Conventions on thermal expansion modelling of radio telescopes for geodetic and astrometric VLBI 总被引:7,自引:6,他引:1
Axel Nothnagel 《Journal of Geodesy》2009,83(8):787-792
Thermal expansion of radio telescopes has long been recognized as an effect which cannot be neglected in geodetic and astrometric
VLBI data analysis if millimeter accuracy is desired. In this article, the author documents the conventions which are being
set by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) for a consistent modelling of this effect in its routine
product generation. For the largest telescopes, the annual cycle of thermal expansion may change the height of the VLBI reference
point by as much as 20 mm. However, for telescopes which are used in present-day IVS operations, the variations rather range
from 4 to 6 mm. 相似文献
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Multi-technique comparison of tropospheric zenith delays derived during the CONT02 campaign 总被引:2,自引:7,他引:2
In October 2002, 15 continuous days of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data were observed in the Continuous VLBI 2002 (CONT02) campaign. All eight radio telescopes involved in CONT02 were co-located with at least one other space-geodetic technique, and three of them also with a Water Vapor Radiometer (WVR). The goal of this paper is to compare the tropospheric zenith delays observed during CONT02 by VLBI, Global Positioning System (GPS), Doppler Orbitography Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS) and WVR and to compare them also with operational pressure level data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). We show that the tropospheric zenith delays from VLBI and GPS are in good agreement at the 3–7 mm level. However, while only small biases can be found for most of the stations, at Kokee Park (Hawaii, USA) and Westford (Massachusetts, USA) the zenith delays derived by GPS are larger by more than 5 mm than those from VLBI. At three of the four DORIS stations, there is also a fairly good agreement with GPS and VLBI (about 10 mm), but at Kokee Park the agreement is only at about 30 mm standard deviation, probably due to the much older installation and type of DORIS equipment. This comparison also allows testing of different DORIS analysis strategies with respect to their real impact on the precision of the derived tropospheric parameters. Ground truth information about the zenith delays can also be obtained from the ECMWF numerical weather model and at three sites using WVR measurements, allowing for comparisons with results from the space-geodetic techniques. While there is a good agreement (with some problems mentioned above about DORIS) among the space-geodetic techniques, the comparison with WVR and ECMWF is at a lower accuracy level. The complete CONT02 data set is sufficient to derive a good estimate of the actual precision and accuracy of each geodetic technique for applications in meteorology. 相似文献
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Results of the estimation of azimuth-dependent phase center variations (PCVs) of GPS satellite antennas using global GPS data
are presented. Significant variations of up to ±3–4 mm that are demonstrated show excellent repeatability over eight years.
The application of the azimuthal PCVs besides the nadir-dependent ones will lead to a further reduction in systematic antenna
effects. In addition, the paper focuses on the benefit of a possible transition from relative to absolute PCVs. Apart from
systematic changes in the global station coordinates, one can expect the GPS results to be less dependent on the elevation
cut-off angle. This, together with the significant reduction of tropospheric zenith delay biases between GPS and VLBI, stands
for an important step toward more consistency between different space geodetic techniques. 相似文献
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河外射电源地面VLBI观测的相对论时延模型 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
重新研究了河外射电源地面VLBI观测的相时论时间延迟模型,给出了一个严格解析的表达式。根据公式可以得到数据处理中常用的Zhu-Groten模型、Shapiro模型和IERS推荐模型,详细地给出了时间延迟理论模型的计算步骤,介绍了各种时间系统的转换和使用方法。 相似文献
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In geodetic and geophysical applications of GPS, it is important to realize the ephemerides of the GPS satellites and the coordinates of station positions in a consistent reference system. At present, more than one reference system is being used by various GPS users depending on their specific applications. The WGS-84 and various reference frames based on satellite laser ranging (SLR), very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), or a combination of SLR and VLBI are the most commonly used in high precision geophysical applications. The WGS-84 is widely used in applications which rely on the GPS broadcast ephemeris. Station coordinates estimated in one system may have to be transformed to another for further use or for evaluation/comparison purposes. This paper presents a seven-parameter transformation between the WGS-84 and SLR/VLBI reference frames. The GPS double-differenced phase measurements for two consecutive weeks from a set of five Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) sites (defined in the WGS-84 frame) and from an augmented set of fifteen CIGNET sites (defined in the SLR/VLBI frame) were processed in a least squares estimation scheme to determine station coordinates, from which the transformation parameters were determined. A scale difference of about 0.2 ppm and an orientation difference in longitude of about 31 milliarcseconds were found to be the only parameters of significance between the adopted SLR/VLBI and the WGS-84 frames. Transformation between WGS-84 and the ITRF90 is also included, in which the scale difference is the same as before but the longitude rotation is about 16 mas. 相似文献
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Methodology for the combination of sub-daily Earth rotation from GPS and VLBI observations 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
A combination procedure of Earth orientation parameters from Global Positioning System (GPS) and Very Long Baseline Interferometry
(VLBI) observations was developed on the basis of homogeneous normal equation systems. The emphasis and purpose of the combination
was the determination of sub-daily polar motion (PM) and universal time (UT1) for a long time-span of 13 years. Time series
with an hourly resolution and a model for tidal variations of PM and UT1-TAI (dUT1) were estimated. In both cases, 14-day
nutation corrections were estimated simultaneously with the ERPs. Due to the combination procedure, it was warranted that
the strengths of both techniques were preserved. At the same time, only a minimum of de-correlating or stabilizing constraints
were necessary. Hereby, a PM time series was determined, whose precision is mainly dominated by GPS observations. However,
this setup benefits from the fact that VLBI delivered nutation and dUT1 estimates at the same time. An even bigger enhancement
can be seen for the dUT1 estimation, where the high-frequency variations are provided by GPS, while the long term trend is
defined by VLBI. The estimated combined tidal PM and dUT1 model was predominantly determined from the GPS observations. Overall,
the combined tidal model for the first time completely comprises the geometrical benefits of VLBI and GPS observations. In
terms of root mean squared (RMS) differences, the tidal amplitudes agree with other empirical single-technique tidal models
below 4 μas in PM and 0.25 μs in dUT1. The noise floor of the tidal ERP model was investigated in three ways resulting in about 1 μas for diurnal PM and 0.07 μs for diurnal dUT1 while the semi-diurnal components have a slightly better accuracy. 相似文献
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提出了一种可用于下一代VLBI观测系统(VGOS)的双线极化条纹拟合方法。现有的VLBI观测模式采用的是右圆极化(RCP),而VGOS系统采用的是双线极化。本文方法包括校正和组合条纹拟合两部分。校正部分选择一颗强源作为参考源,分别得到不同极化方式下的通道时延及相位校正数据,用于目标源的校正。组合条纹拟合部分将4种极化分量的可见度数据组合成伪Stokes分量,通过搜索差分星位角使伪Stokes分量的幅值达到最大,从而获得最终的时延观测量。与单极化条纹拟合相比,组合极化获得的条纹具有更高的信噪比(SNR)及更小的条纹相位弥散度。 相似文献