A relativistic delay model for space very long baseline interferometry (hereafter SVLBI) observation of sources at infinite distance is derived. In SVLBI, where one station is on a spacecraft, the orbiting station's maximum speed in an elliptical Earth orbit is much bigger than the ground VLBI (here after GVLBI), leading to a higher delay rate . The delay models inside the VLBI correlators are usually expressed as fifth-order polynomials in time that good for a limited time interval, which are evaluated by the correlator firmware and track the interferometer delays over a limited time interval. The higher SVLBI delay rate requires more accurate polynomial fitting and evalution, more frequent model updates.
Disentangling interstellar plasma screens with pulsar VLBI: Combining auto- and cross-correlations
脉冲星的闪烁可以让我们一窥星际介质中的小尺度等离子体结构,如果我们能从闪烁图案中推断出它们的性质的话。使用甚长基线干涉测量并在延迟延迟率空间中工作,其中图像对干涉图案的贡献变得局部化,如果单个高度各向异性的散射屏幕负责闪烁,则可以确定散射图像在天空中的散射几何形状和分布。然而,许多雷达受到更复杂的散射环境的影响,这种方法无法使用。我们提出了一种新的技术来重建的脉冲星的散射通量和解决散射几何在这些情况下,通过相结合的单站强度的互相关干涉vibrations。这利用了以下事实:考虑延迟-延迟率空间中的单个图像对,亮度对图像角位移的和敏感,而互相关的强度对差敏感,使得它们的组合可以用于定位该对的两个图像。我们表明,这种技术是能够重建的PSR B 0834 +06公布的散射几何形状,然后将其应用到更复杂的散射系统的模拟,在那里我们发现,它可以区分功能,从不同的散射屏幕,即使多个屏幕的存在是不明显的动态频谱的傅立叶变换。这种技术将使我们能够更好地了解星际介质内的散射分布,并将当前的散射测量技术,如模拟闪烁和限制脉冲星发射的位置,应用于目前缺乏对散射环境的了解而无法使用这些技术的源。(节略)
Accuracy Analysis of VLBI Universal Time Measurement Based on a GNSS Single-Station Regional Ionospheric Model
National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院国家授时中心);Key Laboratory of Time Reference and Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院时间频率基准与应用重点实验室);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学天文与空间科学学院)
NIAC project report: Solar system-scale VLBI to dramatically improve cosmological distance measurements
University of Washington(华盛顿大学);University of Maryland, Baltimore County(马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校);NASA/GSFC(美国国家航空航天局戈达德太空飞行中心);NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(美国国家航空航天局戈达德太空飞行中心);Oregon State University(俄勒冈州立大学);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院);Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院)