The 2024 International VLBI Technology Workshop (IVTW) was held at MIT Haystack Observatory this year! The program and presentation materials are available at https://www.haystack.mit.edu/ivtw2024. Great talks, fantastic discussions, far too much food—and the best weather we could ask for. See you at the next one! 🙂
Thank you to the many presenters and participants at the wonderful IVS General Meeting 2024, which was held in March in Tsukuba, Japan. And a special thank-you from the entire IVS to our excellent hosts and organizers for making this an excellent event for all. The icebreaker, opening ceremony, informative sessions, anniversary celebration, excursions, and […]
MIT Haystack Observatory has announced the dates for the 9th annual International VLBI Technology Workshop, to be held this fall at Haystack. The dates are October 21–23, 2024. The scope of this technology workshop aims to encompass all areas of VLBI hardware and software development. This coming IVTW will be held in person only. More […]
Members of the IVS are gathering in Tsukuba, Japan, for the 13th IVS General Meeting as well as a special anniversary program, celebrating 25 years of the IVS! Details and photos will be provided here. We would like to thank the organizing committees and participants for in advance hosting this significant milestone event for the […]
Courtesy Nlingi Habana (thank you!). Citation: Hudson, et al. (2023)Title: Orbital Configurations of Spaceborne Interferometers for Studying Photon Rings of Supermassive Black HolesDOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.09.035 Synopsis: “The inclusion of baselines exceeding the diameter of the Earth and observation at as short a wavelength as possible is imperative for further development of high resolution astronomical observations. This can be achieved by a […]
The December 2023 issue of the IVS Newsletter is now available: https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue67.pdf
Courtesy of Nlingi Habana (thanks!). Glomsda, et al. (2023): Effects of Non-tidal Loading Applied in VLBI-only Terrestrial Reference Frames https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-023-01766-6 “We investigate the impact of the reduction of non-tidal loading (NTL) in the computation of secular terrestrial reference frames (TRFs) from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. We make use of [corresponding site displacement] data, […]
The latest edition of the IVS Newsletter is now available: https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue66.pdf
This month’s IVS-related articles (courtesy of Nlingi Habana: thank you!): Pakize, et al. (2023): “On the improvement of the sensitivity levels of VLBI solutions from a combination with GNSS” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2023.06.021 “The fundamental goal of the quality assessment using the sensitivity is to find out to what level VLBI can detect station displacements in the adjusted […]
The twelfth biennial IVS Technical Operations Workshop (TOW) was held in May 2023 at MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts. At this year’s workshop were some 64 people representing 15 different countries.The TOW is focused on hands-on training and problem resolution in VLBI operations and is thus geared toward the technical staff members at operational and forthcoming […]
