Baseline Vector Repeatability at the Sub-Millimeter Level Enabled by Radio Interferometer Phase Delays of Intra-Site Baselines

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
• Main Authors: Xu, Ming H., Savolainen, Tuomas, Bolotin, Sergei, Bernhart, Simone, Plötz, Christian, Haas, Rüdiger, Varenius, Eskil, Wang, Guangli, McCallum, Jamie, Heinkelmann, Robert, Lunz, Susanne, Schuh, Harald, Zubko, Nataliya, Kareinen, Niko
• Other Authors: Anne Lähteenmäki Group, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Reichert GmbH, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Chalmers University of Technology, CAS - Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, University of Tasmania, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences, Technical University of Berlin, National Land Survey of Finland, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
• Subjects: geodetic VLBI; GGOS; ITRF; phase delays; reference frames; VGOS; Chalmers; Haystack; Norway; Ny-Ålesund; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/120435; https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025198

Funding Information: We would like to thank Arthur Niell very much for the comments during the reviews. The results reported in this paper used the data coordinated by the International VLBI Service (IVS) and its international self‐funded member organizations. We are grateful to the IVS stations at Hartebeesthoek (South Africa Radio Astronomical Observatory), Ishioka (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), Kokee Park (U.S. Naval Observatory and NASA GSFC, USA), Ny‐Ålesund (Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway), Onsala (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Shanghai (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China), Wettzell (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and Technische Universität München, Germany), and Yebes (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Spain), to the staff at the Bonn Correlator, the Washington Correlator, the Onsala Observatory Correlator, and the MIT Haystack Observatory correlator for performing the correlations and the fringe fitting of the data, to the NASA GSFC VLBI group and the BKG VLBI group for doing the geodetic solutions, and to the IVS Data Centers at BKG (Leipzig, Germany), Observatoire de Paris (France), and NASA CDDIS (Greenbelt, MD, USA) for the central data holdings. This research has made use of the Generic Mapping Tools package, the pgplot library, and the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System. The work was supported by the Academy of Finland project No. 315721. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Funding Information: We would like to thank Arthur Niell very much for the comments during the reviews. The results reported in this paper used the data coordinated by the International VLBI Service (IVS) and its international self-funded member organizations. We are grateful to the IVS stations at Hartebeesthoek (South Africa Radio Astronomical Observatory), Ishioka (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), Kokee Park (U.S. Naval Observatory and NASA GSFC, USA), Ny-Ålesund (Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway), Onsala (Onsala Space ...