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IVS 2008 General Meeting Proceedings

St. Petersburg, Russia, March 2-6, 2008

Published July, 2008

Edited by Andrey Finkelstein and Dirk Behrend

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Session	Authors	Title
Welcome Addresses
	Professor Alexander Viktorov, Minister of Science and Education, Saint Petersburg Government
	Professor Andrey Finkelstein, Director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy
	Professor Harald Schuh, IVS Chair
1. VLBI — A Vital Player in Global Observing Systems
	Harald Schuh, Dirk Behrend	IVS Plans and Perspectives
	Daniella Thaller et al.	Combining VLBI Intensive with GPS Rapid Solutions for Deriving a Stable UT Time Series
	Johannes Böhm et al.	Atmosphere Angular Momentum Time Series for CONT05
	Paulo Mendes et al.	How Can the Wettzell "G" Ringlaser Improve VLBI Measurements of Subdiurnal Earth Rotation Variations?
	Géraldine Bourda et al.	Multi-step VLBI Observations of Weak Extragalactic Radio Sources to Align the ICRF and the Future GAIA Frame
	Igor Molotov et al.	Astrometry of the Solar System Bodies with VLBI Radar
2. Network Stations, Operation Centers, Correlators
	Andrey Finkelstein et al.	The Network "Quasar": 2008–2011
	Kerry Kingham, David Hall	Equipment Failures, Chronic Station Problems, and RFI: Their Effects on Geodetic VLBI Data
	Alessandra Bertarini et al.	Effects on the Geodetic-VLBI Measurables due to Polarization Leakage in the Receivers
	Axel Nothnagel et al.	Comparisons of Correlations Using Disk-Transfer and e-VLBI-Transfer
	Shigeru Matsuzaka et al.	Ultra-rapid UT1 Measurements with e-VLBI
	Mikhail Kharinov, Andrey Mikhailov	Single Dish Radiometric Observations of Geodetic Sources on Radio Telescopes of the QUASAR Network
	Dmitriy Ivanov, Aleksandr Vytnov	Automatic System for Monitoring Hydrogen Masers in QUASAR VLBI Network
	Iskander Gayazov, Elena Skurikhina	Local Ties between Co-located Space Geodetic Instruments at QUASAR Network Observatories
	Roberto Lanotte et al.	Matera Site Survey and VLBI Invariant Point Determination
	Susana Garcia-Espada	Space Geodesy at Yebes: Station Motion from VLBI and GPS
	Shigeru Matsuzaka et al.	VLBI Activities of Tsukuba 32-m Station and Tsukuba Correlator
	Shigeru Matsuzaka et al.	The Past Decade of Tsukuba 32-m VLBI Station
	Hayo Hase et al.	Twin Telescope Wettzell: a VLBI2010 Radio Telescope Project
	Oleg Titov et al.	Australian – New Zealand Geodetic VLBI Network Project
	Robert Campbell, Arpad Szomoru	The EVN Mark IV Data Processor at JIVE and e-VLBI Developments in the EVN
	Igor Surkis et al.	The IAA RAS 6-station VLBI Correlator
	Weimin Zheng, Wuchao Luo	CVN Software Correlator Development and Applications in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Mission
3. VLBI Data Structure, Analysis Strategies and Software
	Yury Gnedin	VLBI as a Tool to Connect Astrometry and Astrophysics
	John Gipson	IVS Working Group 4 on VLBI Data Structures
	Thomas Hobiger et al.	MK3TOOLS – Seamless Interfaces for the Creation of VLBI Databases from Post-Correlation Output
	John Gipson et al.	Improved Estimation in VLBI through Better Modeling and Analysis
	Volkmar Thorandt et al.	Data Analysis at BKG in the Frame of IVS
	Ryuichi Ichikawa et al.	Real-Time Ray-Tracing through Numerical Weather Models for Space Geodesy
	Kamil Teke et al.	VLBI Baseline Length Repeatability Tests of IVS-R1 and IVS-R4 Session Types
	Zinovy Malkin	Influence of Elevation-dependent Weighting on Parameter Estimates: A Case of CONT05
	Zinovy Malkin, Oleg Titov	Optical Characteristics of Astrometric Radio Sources
	Robert Heinkelmann et al.	Effects of Surface Pressure and Temperature on the VLBI Reference Frame
	Jinling Li	The Contribution of CVN to the CE-1 Mission
	Christian Bizouard, Olivier Becker	WEB Tools and WEB Service of the IERS Earth Orientation Centre
	Sébastien Lambert et al.	The Astronomical Virtual Observatory and Application to Earth's Sciences
4. Interpretation of VLBI Results in Geodesy, Astrometry and Geophysics
	George Krasinsky	Secular Decrease of the Earth's Ellipticity form the Analysis of VLBI Data of 1984–2006, and the Long-term Systematic Errors of the Precession-Nutation Models IAU2000 and IAU2006
	Nicole Capitaine et al.	Comparisons of Precession-Nutation Models
	Vadim Gubanov	The Phase Variations of Retrograde Free Core Nutation
	Sergey Pasynok	Comparison of the Prediction Force of the Nutation Theories IAU 2000 and ERA-2005
	Maria Kudryashova et al.	Combination of Nutation Time Series Derived from VLBI and GNSS
	Séverine Rosat, Sébastien Lambert	Earth's Interior from VLBI and Superconducting Gravimeter Data
	Chopo Ma et al.	Some Challenges in Developing the Second ICRF
	Zinovy Malkin	On Construction of ICRF-2
	David Gordon et al.	Selection of "Defining" Sources for ICRF-2
	Oleg Titov	Systematic Effects in Apparent Proper Motions of Radio Sources
	Sergei Bolotin, Svitlana Lytvyn	Comparison of Radio Source Positions from Individual Solutions
	Julia Sokolova, Zinovy Malkin	Comparison and Combination of CRF Catalogs
	Sergey Kurdubov, Elena Skurikhina	Source Selection for NNR Constraints from Source Position Time Series
	Christopher Jacobs, Ojars Sovers	Extending the ICRF above S/X-band: X/Ka-band Global Astrometric Results
	Gabor Lanyi et al.	Astrometry from VLBA Observations at 24 and 43 GHz
	Takaaki Jike et al.	Results from K-band Geodetic VLBI Using VERA
	Jean Souchay et al.	The Large Quasar Astrometric Catalog and the Radio-Optical Link
	Natalia Miller, Zinovy Malkin	Using Singular Spectrum Analysis for the Investigation of Troposphere Parameters
	Volker Tesmer et al.	Atmospheric Loading Coefficients Determined from Homogeneously Reprocessed GPS and VLBI Height Time Series
	Sigrid Englich et al.	Re-assessment of Ocean Tidal Terms in High-Frequency Earth Rotation Variations Observed by VLBI
	Andrey Finkelstein et al.	QUASAR National Programs of EOP Determination
	Thomas Artz et al.	Comparison and Validation of VLBI Derived Polar Motion Estimates
	Sarah Böckmann, Axel Nothnagel	The Variance Component Approach in the IVS Combination
	Robert Heinkelmann et al.	A Postseismic Relaxation Model for the 2002 Denali Earthquake from GPS Deformation Analysis Applied to VLBI Data
	Sébastien Lambert, Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte	Measuring the Relativistic Parameter gamma Using the Current Geodetic VLBI Data Set
	Patrick Charlot	Astrophysical Stability of Radio Sources and Implication for the Realization of the Next ICRF
5. Progress in Technology Development and the Next Generation VLBI System
	Tobias Nilsson, Rüdiger Haas	Modeling Tropospheric Delays with Astmospheric Turbulence Models
	Dean Chalmers et al.	Composite Applications for Radio Telescopes
	Gino Tuccari et al.	DBBC Development Status
	Xiuzhong Zhang	Progress of Wideband VLBI Digital System Development at SHAO
	Dan Smythe	Mark 5 Disk Drive Performance and Reliability
	Alan Whitney	The Mark 5C VLBI Data System
	Chester Ruszczyk	Mark 5C Software Development Program
	Ryuichi Ichikawa et al.	Development of a Compact VLBI System for Providing over 10 km Baseline Calibration
	Yasuhiro Koyama et al.	Developments of an Automated Data Processing System for Ultra Rapid dUT1 e-VLBI Sessions
	Bill Petrachenko et al.	VLBI2010 Antenna Slew Rate Study
	Daniel MacMillan	Simulation Analysis of the Geodetic Performance of Networks of VLBI2010 Stations
	Jörg Wresnik et al.	VLBI2010 Simulations at IGG Vienna
	Andrea Pany et al.	Vienna VLBI2010 PPP Simulations
	Arnaud Collioud, Patrick Charlot	Imaging Capabilities of the Next Generation VLBI System
	Vincenza Tornatore et al.	First Considerations on the Feasibility of GNSS Observations by the VLBI Technique
	Hideo Hanada et al.	VLBI Observations of SELENE (KAGUYA) by VERA and an International Network
	Vladimir Zharov, Leonid Matveenko	VLBI and Precise Space Navigation
	Erhu Wei et al.	On the Space VLBI Mathematical Model with Nutation Parameters
Splinter Meeting Report
	Axel Nothnagel	Notes of the 9th IVS Analysis Workshop