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Contributions to Proceedings:

H. Krasna, D. Gordon, A. de Witt, C. Jacobs, B. Soja:
"Earth Orientation Parameters Estimated from K-band VLBA Measurements";
in: "Proceedings of the 24th European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting", issued by: R. Haas, S Garcia-Espada, J.A. Lopez Fernandez; Chalmers University of Technology, 2019, ISBN: 978-84-416-5634-5, 238 - 242.



English abstract:
The Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP),which connect the Terrestrial and Celestial Reference Frame, are regularly estimated by Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The UT1-UTC and nutation components of EOP can only be measured using the VLBI technique. Until recently, published VLBI estimates of EOP were based solely on observations from the S/X frequency band. We present VLBI estimates of EOP from an observing frequency independent of the traditional SX-band using Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) measurements at K-band (24 GHz, 1.2 cm). We have over two years of regular VLBA experiments conducted with telescopes located in U.S. territory. We investigate the potential of K-band VLBI to produce more accurate EOP because of its reduced source structure effects relative to S/X-band. We compare our K-band EOP computed with two analyses software packages (Calc/Solve and VieVS) to the IERS C04 data.

Keywords:
K-band, EOP, VLBA, VLBI


Electronic version of the publication:
https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_285412.pdf


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