David Boboltz
Type of contribution: oral
Session: 2

A New VLBI Intensive Series Using the Mauna Kea and Pie Town Stations of the VLBA

David Boboltz, USNO Walter Brisken, NRAO Kerry Kingham, USNO Kenneth Johnston, USNO David Hall, USNO Nicole Geiger, USNO Alan Fey, USNO

The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have begun a series of geodetic intensive experiments using the Mauna Kea, HI and Pie Town, NM stations of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). This single-baseline series will supplement existing IVS intensives for the purpose of providing daily UT1 measurements at reduced latency. We describe the end-to-end VLBI data path including: new data collection systems at the VLBA stations, new high-speed network connections for rapid e-transfers, and the USNO implementation of the DiFX software correlator for processing the data. We present preliminary results from the series and discuss prospects for the release of the data to the IVS community.