by Johannes Böhm | Sep 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
On September 10, 2019, Markus Mikschi presented his bachelor thesis on the integration of length-of-day values for the determination of UT1. Depending on the calibration, it is possible to achieve an accuracy of 40 microseconds after a week. It should also be noted...
by Jakob Gruber | Aug 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
A new stable major version of DiFX: DiFX-2.6.1 has been released. The source code can be obtained via SVN at: https://svn.atnf.csiro.au/difx/master_tags/DiFX-2.6.1 . Documentation can be found at the DiFX Wiki:...
by Johannes Böhm | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
On 22 August 2019, four colleagues from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) visited us at TU Wien to inform each other about research focus points and to discuss possible future co-operation activities.
by Johannes Böhm | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
In June 2019, the Vienna Scientific Cluster 4 was powered on. This is very good news, because we will have 10 private nodes (480 cores in total) and 1 PByte of storage for correlation activities. Also the Standard (Austrian newspaper) reports about VSC4.
by Andreas Hellerschmied | Jun 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
A paper on “VieSched++: A New VLBI Scheduling Software for Geodesy and Astrometry” by Schartner and Böhm was published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It will serve as reference for the new scheduling software.
