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2016 October 13 IVTW - Haystack 1
VGOS broadband delay extraction, analysis,
and results
Arthur NiellMIT Haystack Observatory
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Overview
• What is broadband delay and why?• Dual pol’n broadband delay observable
– Delay and phase calibration needed• across bands• between polarizations
• Geodetic analysis– Cable delay to phase cal generator– Results for VGOS Demonstration Series
• GGAO12M-Westford: 2014 Dec – 2016 Feb
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Broadband delay
• Frequency coverage– Four bands of 1 GHz (ideally; 0.5 GHz for now)– Dual linear polarizations– Mean frequencies (GHz) : 3.3 5.5 6.6 10.5
• Delay precision– VLBI2010 WG3 set a goal of 4 psec– Intention was to make it smaller than other errors
• Delay from pseudo-Stokes II = (XX + YY)*cos(Δ) +(XY –YX) *sin(Δ)
where Δ = difference of parallactic angles
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Broadband frequencies
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Broadband signal chain
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Extraction of delay and phase observables
• Calibration along the bands– Essential to have coherence in each polarization product
separately: XX, YY, XY, YX– Obtain delays and phases from multitone phase cal
• Calibration between polarizations– Must include delay and phase differences between
polarizations in order to combine them coherently– Determine Y-X offsets using a strong source (fourphase)
• Estimate delay and dispersion simultaneously (fourfit)– Correlation increases delay uncertainty by a factor of 2.6
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QRFH feed
couplers
phase calgenerator
5MHz frequency reference
Polarization delay difference
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IXY fourfit
dTEC
Phase per frequencyRMS 5.8°3.0-10.7 GHz
amp
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Delay uncertainty distribution
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Cable delay measurement proxy
• Need to know the delay on the cable carrying the reference frequency (5 MHz) to phasecal– az-el dependence will bias position estimate
• No cable delay for GGAO12M until CDMS is built• Use a proxy for cable delay when it is missing
– Measure dependence of multi-tone phasecal delay on azimuth and elevation in short time
– Use dependence as the GGAO12M cable delay proxy• Reduces GGAO12M-Westford length WRMS • Reduces RMS post-fit delay residuals
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Multitone phasecal delay
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VDS Sessions
• Fifteen months of GGAO12M – Westford baseline – 2014 December through 2016 February
• 13 sessions– All bands worked– Receivers cold– Durations:
• 10 sessions 1-1.5 hours• 2 sessions 4 - 5 hours• 1 session 24 hours
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Geodetic analysis
• Databases are in the new vgosDb format• Geodetic estimation done with nuSolve
– Approximately 45 scans per hour– 30 seconds per scan– Separate analysis for each session
• All sessions analyzed with ‘standard’ PWL parameters– Clock: 15 min; zwd: 20 minutes; gradients: 1 hour– Identical processing for all sessions
• Typical WRMS residuals 10 psec before re-weighting• Additive noise for re-weighting 10-30 psec
– Less than 1% deleted as >5*reweighted delay uncertainty
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Other broadband sessions
• VGOS– Seven sessions that include KOKEE12M with
GGAO12M and WESTFORD– Five sessions to debug the broadband capability at
Ishioka, Wettzell-South, and YEBES13m in fringe-tests with GGAO12M, WESTFORD, and/or KOKEE12M
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2003 2016
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AcknowledgementsThe following people contributed significantly to making the results reported here possible.
Roger CappalloBrian CoreyMike TitusJohn GipsonSergei BolotinEd HimwichAlex BurnsMike PoirierKatie PazamikasJay RedmondChris BeaudoinChris EckertMark DeromeJon Byford
(I apologize to anyone I left out.)
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Rest of talk
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SNR distribution
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Other sessions
• VGOS broadband– Seven sessions that include GGAO12M, WESTFORD,
and KOKEE12M– Five sessions to debug the broadband capability at
Ishioka, Wettzell-south, and YEBES13m in fringe-tests with GGAO12M, WESTFORD, and/or KOKEE12M
• S/X– Four 24-hour tie sessions for KOKEE12M to
KOKEE20M (S/X)
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Broadband correlation and post-correlation
• Correlate all four bands simultaneously.– directly from the Mark6 (last six sessions)– all polarization products within each band for all
four bands• fourfit
– Apply multitone phasecal delays and phases to align the phases of the four bands.
– Correct for uncalibrated delay and phase offsets between polarizations (use one strong source for values).
– Coherently estimate group delay and dTEC(ionosphere).
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Geodetic analysis• Create vgosDb database (MikeT).• Create proxy cable delay values based on
the scheduled azimuth.• Calculate baseline length.
– Use same standard parameterization for the clocks and atmosphere delay for all sessions.
– Typical re-weighting 10 psec of additive delay • group delay uncertainty a few psec
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Backup/additional slides
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Geodetic analysis
• VGOS Data Series– Median delay uncertainty per scan is a few psec.– With re-weighting the WRMS post-fit delay residual
is typically 10-15 psec (compared to a few times 10 psec for current S/X sessions).
– Extra noise likely due to both real variations and to simplified atmosphere and clock models; possibly also to missing cable delay measurement.