by Lisa Kern | Jul 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
On June 30, 2022, Jakob Gruber successfully defended his PhD thesis on Raw Data Simulation and Correlation of VLBI data. After the presentation of his thesis, Jakob withstood the difficult questions from Axel Nothnagel, Jamie McCallum and Johannes Böhm....
by Lisa Kern | Jun 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
On June 20, the excursion to the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell organised by the Vienna VLBI Group took place. This year, 34 students and 7 staff members participated in the trip to the Bavarian Forest. At the observatory, we were able to inspect three VLBI antennas,...
by Helene Wolf | Jun 9, 2022 | Conference
In the week of 23 to 27 May 2022 the General Assembly 2022 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) took place in Vienna. After almost two years of pandemic, the first-ever fully hybrid EGU brought together over 7000 geoscientists from 89 countries on site and 7000...
by Johannes Böhm | Sep 30, 2021 | Reference Frame, Uncategorized
On September 30, 2021, Michal Zajaček from the Masaryk University in Brno visited TU Wien and gave a seminar talk on short-term jet precession in VLBI data. It was very interesting to see where astrophysics and geodesy have common topics and goals.
by Johannes Böhm | Jun 26, 2021 | correlation
For the first time, a 24h VGOS session of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) was correlated at TU Wien. Eight globally distributed radio telescopes participated in session VO1021 on January 21, 2021, each observing quasars with a data rate...
by Johannes Böhm | Apr 9, 2021 | correlation
Jakob Gruber has developed software to simulate raw telescope data for VLBI (VieRDS). Interested? The software is available via Github and the description with the mathematical background has just gone online as open access paper. @IVS_OOC
by Johannes Böhm | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
What a nice Christmas present: the paper on the ICRF3 is finally published in A&A: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038368 . Wien is very happy and honored to have been part of this great achievement! @IVS_OOC @tu_wien
by Johannes Böhm | Dec 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Do not miss the December 2020 issue of the IVS Newsletter! @IVS_OOC It features the Celestial Reference Frame with great interviews by “CRF veterans”. It also introduces the joint Operation Center by Wettzell, Zürich, and Wien....
by Johannes Böhm | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Matthias will leave TU Wien with the end of September 2020, starting at ETH Zürich (Space Geodesy group of Benedikt Soja) on October 1. Matthias, it was a pleasure having you at TU Wien, we wish Laura and you all the best for the future, and we are looking forward to...
by Johannes Böhm | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
We are very glad to have a new member in the Vienna VLBI group: Frederic Jaron. He is an experienced VLBI-ler with a background in astrophysics and interest in a wide variety of VLBI topics. Among other topics, he will look into source structure effects in VGOS...
