Components
Correlators
Functions of Correlators in the IVS Terms of Reference
| Country |
IVS Component Name (link to recent Annual/Biennial Report) |
Primary Contact |
Sponsoring Organization |
Programs Supported |
S |
T |
% |
| Austria |
Vienna Correlator |
Johannes Boehm |
Vienna Center for VLBI |
AUS-AST, VGOS-OPS |
1.0 |
10 |
100% |
| China |
Shanghai Correlator |
Fengchun Shu |
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory |
CVN, AOV, APSG, AUS-AST, CRF, VGOS-OPS |
0.8 |
4 |
50% |
| Germany |
Astro/Geo Correlator at MPIfR |
Simone Bernhart |
MPIfR,
BKG,
Reichert GmbH |
IVS-R1, IVS-T2, OHIG, IVS-INT-3, VGOS-OPS |
2.8 |
10 |
50% |
| Japan |
Tsukuba VLBI Center |
Yu Takagi |
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan |
AOV, IVS-INT-2 |
0.5 |
10 |
100% |
| Russia |
Institute of Applied Astronomy |
Igor Surkis |
Institute of Applied Astronomy |
RU-I, RU-E |
1 |
10 |
50% |
| USA |
Washington Correlator |
David Hall |
NEOS |
IVS-R4, CRF, TRF, IVS-INT-1, VGOS-OPS, VGOS-INT-A |
1.0 |
10 |
100% |
| USA |
MIT Haystack Correlator |
Pedro Elosegui |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
R&D, VGOS-OPS, VGOS-RD |
0.5 |
20 |
12% |
Key: S = storage capacity [PB], T = e-transfer speed [Gbps], % = %use
for geodesy |
