Yarragadee results

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Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:49:44 +1000

Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 20:54:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [IVSmail] First fringes to the AuScope VLBI telescope at
Yarragadee -- and now first results
From: "Leonid Petrov" <Leonid.Petrov_at_lpetrov.<!--nospam-->net>
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Dear colleagues,

JFI, station YARRA12M participated in experiment r4481.
No fringes at X-band. :-(

Preliminary station position from the global solution using
S-band group delay observables with the ionosphere contribution
computed from GPS TEC maps taken from CODE data center is:

at epoch 2011.05.06:

YARRA12M X Comp -2388895.7 m
YARRA12M Y Comp 5043349.8 m
YARRA12M Z Comp -3078590.7 m

Or the same result at epoch 2000.0

YARRA12M X Comp -2388895.2 m
YARRA12M Y Comp 5043349.7 m
YARRA12M Z Comp -3078591.3 m

assuming the following velocity:

YARRA12M X Comp -47.45 mm/yr NNR-NUVEL1A
       Y Comp 9.12 mm/yr NNR-NUVEL1A
       Z Comp 51.76 mm/yr NNR-NUVEL1A

Random errors are at a level of 8 cm. Systematic errors
caused by the mismodeled ionosphere contribution at X-band
may be as large as 0.5 meter.

Waiting for good X-band fringes.

Leonid
21-MAY-2011 20:44:39
Received on 2011-05-22 12:50:21