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IVS 2006 General Meeting Proceedings

Concepción, Chile, January 9-11, 2006
Published August, 2006
Edited by Dirk Behrend and Karen Baver

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Preface

Welcome Addresses

Welcome Address of Universidad de Concepción
Welcome Address from IVS Chair

Session 1. VLBI in Science and Application

Markus Rothacher: The Global Geodetic Observing System and the IVS Service
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Alexandre Humberto Andrei: GAIA and a New Optical Reference Frame
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Aleksander Brzezinski: Role of VLBI for Investigating Earth Rotation
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Massimo Tarenghi: The ALMA Project
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Markus Vennebusch, Sarah Böckmann: IVS' Contribution to the IERS Combination Pilot Project and to the ITRF2005 - Status & Results
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Jinling Li, Li Guo, Bo Zhang: Ionosphere Delay Corrections in Satellite VLBI Observations
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A. Costa, A. M. Pereira de Lucena, P. Kaufmann, F. Sales Ávila Cavalcante, F. Geraldo de Melo Pinheiro, F. de Assis Tavares Ferreira da Silva, J. Bosco Verçosa Leal Jr., V. de Paula Silva Filho: GPS Meteorology over Northeast Brazil: Perspectives
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Robert Heinkelmann, Johannes Böhm, Harald Schuh, Volker Tesmer: Global VLBI Solution IGG05R01
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Nobuyuki Kawano, Hideo Hanada, Koji Matsumoto: International VLBI Tracking of SELENE
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Xiuzhong Zhang, Team of Chinese VLBI Network: Spacecraft Tracking with the Chinese VLBI Network
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Takaaki Jike, Yoshiaki Tamura, Seiji Manabe, NAOJ VERA Group: The First Year of VERA Geodetic Experiments
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H. Kobayashi, S. Manabe, N. Kawaguchi, K.-M. Shibata, Y. Tamura, O. Kameya, M. Honma, T. Hirota, H. Imai, T. Omodaka: VERA System and Recent Results
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Mamoru Sekido, Toshio Fukushima: VLBI Delay Model for a Radio Source at Finite Distance
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Session 2. Next Generation VLBI

Bill Petrachenko: Achieving a Quantum Leap in Observation Density
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Alan R. Whitney, Shep S. Doeleman, Brian Fanous, Hans F. Hinteregger, Alan E.E. Rogers: A Wide-Band VLBI Digital Backend System
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Peter Shield, Mark Godwin: A New Lower Cost 12m Full Motion Antenna
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Gordon Lacy, Peter Dewdney, Bill Petrachenko: A Preliminary Design Study for an Affordable 12 Metre Carbon Composite Radio Telescope
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Chopo Ma: Uses of the ICRF and Implications for Future VLBI
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Zhijun Xu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Renjie Zhu, Chunmei Lu, Zhong Chen, Fengchun Shu, Weiming Zheng: Real Time Correlator in FPGA
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Joerg Wresnik, Johannes Böhm, Harald Schuh: Simulations for VLBI2010
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Markus Vennebusch: Singular Value Decomposition - A Tool for VLBI Simulations
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Anthony Searle: Network Size Simulations
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Session 3. Network Stations, Operation Centers, Correlators

Jesús Gómez-González, Francisco Colomer, Alberto Barcia, José Antonio López-Fernández: A New 40 Meter Radiotelescope at Yebes (Spain) for Geodetic VLBI Studies
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M. Machida, M. Ishimoto, K. Takashima, T. Kondo, Y. Koyama: K5/VSSP Data Processing System of Small Cluster Computing at Tsukuba VLBI Correlator
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Gonzalo Remedi, Sergio Sobarzo, Hayo Hase: Remote Control of VLBI Operations
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Tuhwan Kim, Tetsuo Sasao, Younghee Kwak, Taekyoung Jung, Minsoo Bae, Wonkuk Lee, Jongwan Kim: National Geodetic VLBI Plan in Korea
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Pierre Kaufmann: Radio Astronomy and VLBI in Brazil
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Wolfgang Schlüter, Thomas Klügel, Christian Schade: Footprint Observations at the Fundamental Station Wettzell
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Arno Müskens, Walter Alef, Dave Graham, Alessandra Bertarini: Bonn Correlator Report for Astronomy and Geodesy
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Sergei Gulyaev, Tim Natusch, Brent Addis, Steven Tingay, Adam Deller: The IVS in the Southern Hemisphere: New Zealand Perspectives
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Brian Corey, Michael Titus: Antenna Cross-Polarization Characteristics at Geodetic VLBI Stations
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Claudio Abbondanza, Monia Negusini, Pierguido Sarti, Luca Vittuari: An Investigation on a GPS-based Approach to Local Tie Computation
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Daniel Hernandez, Rüdiger Haas: GPS on the VLBI Telescopes at Onsala and Ny-Ålesund
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P. Bolli, S. Montaguti, M. Negusini, P. Sarti, L. Vittuari, G.L. Deiana: Photogrammetry, Laser Scanning, Holography and Terrestrial Surveying of the Noto VLBI Dish
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Yoshihiro Fukuzaki, Kazuo Shibuya, Koichiro Doi: Status and Results of JARE Syowa Station, Antarctica
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Session 4. New Technology Developments in VLBI

Gino Tuccari, Salvatore Buttaccio, Gaetano Nicotra, Ying Xiang, Michael Wunderlich: DBBC -- A Flexible Platform for VLBI Data Processing
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Ying Xiang, Gino Tuccari, Wenren Wei: FPGA Implementation in DBBC
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Tetsuro Kondo, Yasuhiro Koyama, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Moritaka Kimura: Development of a New VLBI Sampler Unit (K5/VSSP32) Equipped with a USB 2.0 Interface
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Alan R. Whitney: The Mark 5B VLBI Data System
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Roger Cappallo: Integration of the Mark 5B Playback System into the Mark IV Correlator
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Dan Smythe: VSI Interfaces for Legacy Systems
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Alan R. Whitney, Chester A. Ruszczyk: e-VLBI Development at Haystack Observatory
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Yasuhiro Koyama, Tetsuro Kondo, Moritaka Kimura, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Masaki Hirabaru: e-VLBI Developments with the K5 VLBI System
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Hiroshi Takeuchi, Moritaka Kimura, Junichi Nakajima, Ryuichi Ichikawa, Mamoru Sekido, Tetsuro Kondo, Yasuhiro Koyama: A VSI-compliant 2-Gsps DAS for Spacecraft Differential VLBI
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Ryuichi Ichikawa, Mamoru Sekido, Yasuhiro Koyama, Tetsuro Kondo: An Evaluation of Atmospheric Path Delay Correction in Differential VLBI Experiments for Spacecraft Tracking
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Wang Guangli: Post-Correlation Processing of VLBI Satellite Observations at SHAO
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Gino Tuccari, Igor Molotov, Alexander Volvach, Alexander Konovalenko, Alexander Dementiev, Liu Xiang, Yuri Gorshenkov, Maria Nechaeva, Igor Falkovich, Alexander Pushkarev, Vladmir Samodurov, Alexander Antipenko, Nikolay Dugin, Salvatore Buttaccio, Gaetano Nicotra, Ivan Strepka, Vladimir Titenko, Vladimir Jazykov: e-NRTV -- Radar VLBI Network LFVN
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Session 5. Software and Analysis Strategies

Volker Tesmer, Johannes Böhm, Robert Heinkelmann, Harald Schuh: Impact of Analysis Options on the TRF, CRF and Position Time Series Estimated from VLBI
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Arthur Niell: Interaction of Atmosphere Modeling and VLBI Analysis Strategy
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Wolfgang Schlüter, Walter Schwarz, Beat Bürki, Alexander Somieski, Petra Häfele, Jungho Cho: Comparison of Wet Path Delays Observed with Water Vapour Radiometers, Solar Spectrometer, Radiosondes, GPS and VLBI at the Fundamental Station Wettzell
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Johannes Böhm, Harald Schuh: Linear Horizontal Gradients vs. 3D Raytracing
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Sebastien B. Lambert, Anne-Marie Gontier: A Comparison of R1 and R4 IVS Networks
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Daniel MacMillan, Dirk Behrend, David Gordon, Chopo Ma: First Results from CONT05
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Daniel MacMillan: Radio Source Instability in the Analysis of VLBI Data
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Oleg Titov: Effect of Reference Radio Source Instabilities on the TRF Solution
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Gerald Engelhardt, Volkmar Thorandt: First Steps to Investigate Long-Term Stability of Radio Sources in VLBI Analysis
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John M. Gipson: Correlation Due to Station Dependent Noise in VLBI
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David Gordon, Dan MacMillan, Karen Baver: Calc 10 Implementation
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Sebastien B. Lambert: Baseline and Site Repeatability in the IVS Rapid Network
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Joerg Wresnik, Johannes Böhm, Rüdiger Haas, Harald Schuh: Thermal Deformation of Radio Telescopes Onsala and Wettzell
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Session 6. Results and Geodetic/Geophysical/Astrometic Interpretation

Edward Fomalont: VLBA Phase Referencing for Astrometric Use
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Rüdiger Haas: Investigating High-Frequency Earth Orientation Variations with Continuous Geodetic VLBI Campaigns
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C. S. Jacobs, G. E. Lanyi, C. J. Naudet, O. J. Sovers, L. D. Zhang, P. Charlot, E. B. Fomalont, D. Gordon, C. Ma, KQ VLBI Collaboration: Extending the ICRF to Higher Radio Frequencies: Global Astrometric Results at 24 GHz
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Patrick Charlot, Alan Fey, Roopesh Ojha, Dave Boboltz: Astrometric Suitability of ICRF Sources Based on Intrinsic VLBI Structure
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Richard Porcas, Walter Alef, Chris Salter, Tapasi Ghosh, Simon Garrington: How Compact Are Faint Radio Sources?
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Anthony Searle: E3 Network Results
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J. Cho, A. Nothnagel, A. L. Roy, R. Haas: A Generalized Scheme to Retrieve Wet Path Delays from WVR Measurements Applied to the European Geodetic VLBI Network
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Christopher S. Jacobs, Stephen J. Keihm, Gabor E. Lanyi, Charles J. Naudet, Lance Riley, Alan B. Tanner: Improving Astrometric VLBI by Using Water Vapor Radiometer Calibrations
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Robert Heinkelmann, Johannes Böhm, Harald Schuh: Combination of Long-term Time Series of Tropospheric Parameters Observed by VLBI
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Thomas Hobiger, Tetsuro Kondo, Harald Schuh: VLBI as a Tool to Probe the Ionosphere
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Thomas Hobiger, Tetsuro Kondo, Kazuhiro Takashima, Harald Schuh: Detection of Short Period Ionosphere Variations from VLBI Fringe Phases
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Bong Won Sohn, Tae Hyun Jung, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Tetsuo Sasao, Tomoya Hirota, Osamu Kameya, Yoon Kyung Choi, Hyun Soo Chung, Hyun Goo Kim: Simultaneous Dual Frequency VLBI Observation Using VERA
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Annika Edh, Rüdiger Haas: Crustal Deformation in South America from GPS and VLBI
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Younghee Kwak, Tetsuo Sasao, Tuhwan Kim: A Preliminary Study on Plate Motion Measurements on the Korean Peninsula with the New Korean VLBI Array
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Yoshimitsu Masaki, Shigeru Matsuzaka, Yoshiaki Tamura: Local Tie Survey at VERA Ogasawara Station at Site Chichijima
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Splinter Meeting Reports

Axel Nothnagel: Summary of the 7th IVS Analysis Workshop
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