Technical Workshop for APT and APSG 1996 -- TWAA96 -- Final Program December 10 - December 13, 1996 Day 1 (Tuesday, December 10, 1996) Session 1 : Opening Chairman : Fujinobu Takahashi 11:00-11:10 Welcome to the Workshop Yoji Furuhama (CRL) 11:10-11:20 Opening Remarks Fujinobu Takahashi (CRL) 11:20-11:50 The APT: Current Status David L. Jauncey (CSIRO) 11:50-12:20 Recent Status of the APSG Project Ye Shuhua (Shanghai O.) Lunch Break Session 2 : Status Report of Individual Observatories and Projects (Part 1) [Wide Area Networks / Projects] Chairman : Thomas A. Clark 13:30-13:50 The CORE program: Geodetic VLBI for the Thomas A. Clark new Millennium (NASA/GSFC) 13:50-14:10 Status and Near Future Prospects of the Leonid I. Gurvits (JIVE) European VLBI Network Richard T. Schilizzi (JIVE) 14:10-14:30 Global Astronomical VLBI Network Makoto Inoue (NAO) 14:30-14:50 Western Pacific GPS Network Teruyuki Kato (ERI/Tokyo U.) 14:50-15:10 Western Pacific and APSG SLR Network John Manning (AUSLIG) Coffee Break 15:30-15:50 Progress of the VLBI Program in the Kazuo Shibuya (NIPR) Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition Koichiro Doi* (NIPR) after the APT'95 Workshop Shigeru Aoki (NIPR) 15:50-16:10 VSOP Hisashi Hirabayashi(ISAS) [Regional Networks / Projects] Chairman : Ye Shuhua 16:10-16:30 The Japanese VLBI Network Osamu Kameya (NAO) 16:30-16:50 Interferometric SAR and Geodetic VLBI Mikio Tobita (GSI) in Japan 16:50-17:10 Recent Progress on the VLBI Facilities Qian Zhihan (Shanghai O.) in China 17:10-17:30 Activities in Australia John Reynolds (ATNF) 17:30-17:50 Activities in India Ashok K. Singal (PRL) 17:50-18:10 Recent Developments in the NASA Space John M. Bosworth Geodesy Program (SLR and VLBI) (NASA/GSFC) All-Together picture of the participants will be taken during this time. 18:30-20:30 Banquet Day 2 (Wednesday, December 11, 1996) Session 2 : Status Report of Individual Observatories and Projects (Part 2) [Individual Institutes] Chairman : Young Chol Minh 08:30-08:45 TBD Masaki Morimoto (Kagoshima U.) 08:45-09:00 Key Stone Project Noriyuki Kurihara (CRL) 09:00-09:15 VERA Tetsuo Sasao (NAO) 09:15-09:30 Status Report of the Taedak Radio Young Chol Minh(TRAO/KAO) Astronomy Observatory and the Korea Astronomy Observatory 09:30-09:45 VLBI in India and International Hari O. Vats (PRL) Collaboration 09:45-10:00 Resent Status of Urumqi VLBI System Aili Yusup (Urumqi O.) 10:00-10:15 The Status of the Hobart 26-metre and Marco E. Costa(Hobart O.) the Ceduna 30-metre Antennas Coffee Break 10:35-10:55 Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope Subramaniam Ananthakrishnan (Tata I.) 10:55-11:10 The DSN Radio Observatory and Asian Valery I. Altunin (JPL) Pacific VLBI Network Thomas Kuiper (JPL) Pamera Wolken (JPL) Session 3: Developments of Technologies (Part 1) [Receivers / Antenna / Front-end System] Chairman : Andrej M. Finkelstein 11:10-11:25 A Tunerless 33-50 GHz band SIS Receiver Masato Tsuboi(Ibaraki U.) 11:25-11:40 The Construction Methods of VLBI Irina A. Ipatova(IAA/RAS) Receivers 11:40-11:55 The Mark-4 VLBI Timing Initiative Thomas A. Clark (NASA/GSFC) 11:55-12:10 TIGO - a New Geodetic Tool Hayo Hase (IfAG) 12:10-12:25 The Video Converters for Registering Nikolai E. Koltsov Terminal S2-RT (IAA/RAS) Lunch Break [Real Time VLBI with High Speed Digital Communication] 13:30-13:45 Real Time VLBI of the KSP Hitoshi Kiuchi (CRL) 13:45-14:00 Toward the International VLBI Linked by Taizoh Yoshino (CRL) the Broadband Network 14:00-14:15 Real Time VLBI Michail N. Kaidanovski (IAA/RAS) [Field System / Scheduling] Chairman : Wayne H. Cannon 14:15-14:30 Automated Remote Operation System and Yasuhiro Koyama (CRL) Data Analysis System for the Key Stone Project VLBI Network 14:30-14:45 SLR Observation System for the Key Stone Hiroo Kunimori (CRL) Project 14:45-15:05 Recent Improvements in the NASA Field Ed Himwich (NASA/GSFC) System 15:05-15:20 Report on Radio Astronomy within the Paul Harbison Tidbinbilla Tracking Station (Canberra (Canberra DSCC) Deep Space Communications Complex) 15:20-15:35 Scheduling for VSOP and Implications for Philip Edwards (ISAS) the APT 15:35-15:45 Summary and Preparation for the next Chairman day's Open Discussion Coffee Break [Recorder / Data Acquisition Terminal] 16:05-16:25 The Mark IV VLBI System Alan R. Whitney (Haystack O./MIT) 16:25-16:40 K-4 and KSP VLBI Terminal Hitoshi Kiuchi (CRL) 16:40-16:50 New 512Mbps ID-1 Recorder Toshiaki Wakita (SONY) 16:50-17:05 S2 Recording System in VLBI Wayne H. Cannon (ISTS) 17:05-17:20 S2 Recording System Georg H. Feil (ISTS) 17:20-17:35 1024Mbps VLBI Data Recorder and Weak Junichi Nakajima (CRL) Radio Source Observation 17:35-17:45 Applications of High-Vision Recorders Shigeo Kizu (TOSHIBA) 17:45-18:05 Specification and Current Status of the Seiji Kameno (NAO) VSOP Terminal. 18:05-18:25 VSOP/S2, VSOP/VLBA Translator Designed Noriyuki Kawaguchi (NAO) to Tie all APT Stations 18:25-18:35 Summary and Preparation for the next Chairman day's Open Discussion Day 3 (Thursday, December 12, 1996) Session 3: Developments of Technologies (Part 2) [Correlators] Chairman : Leonid I. Gurvits 08:30-08:45 Development of K4 Correlator for Mamoru Sekido (CRL) Japan-Russia Pulsar VLBI 08:45-09:00 KSP Correlator and Data Reduction System Tetsuro Kondo (CRL) Hitoshi Kiuchi (CRL) Mamoru Sekido (CRL) 09:00-09:20 The Status of Mitaka Correlator Katsunori Shibata (NAO) 09:20-09:40 IAA S-2 Correlator for Geodetic VLBI Andrej M. Finkelstein (IAA/RAS) 09:40-10:00 Mark-IV Correlator Alan R. Whitney (Haystack O./MIT) [Tropospheric Delay Correction] 10:00-10:20 Tropospheric Delay Mapping Function Arthur Niell (Haystack, MIT) 10:20-10:40 GPS Meteorology in Japan Ryuichi Ichikawa (CRL) Coffee Break Session 4: Science Chairman : Ashok K. Singal 11:00-11:15 Measurement of Pulsar Proper Motion Takayuki Sakurai Using Asia Pacific Telescopes (STE Lab., Nagoya U.) 11:15-11:30 VLBI-Holographic Surface Error Tomonari Suzuyama Measurements of MUSES-B (Kagoshima U.) Noriyuki Kawaguchi (NAO) Yuuji Horie(Kagoshima U.) Tomoyuki Miyazaki (Kagoshima U.) 11:30-11:45 Measurement of Relative Motions Zhu Wenyao (Shanghai O.) Between SHAO, TAIW, USUD and TSKB IGS Cheng Zongyi(Shanghai O.) Stations Lunch Break 13:30-13:45 VLBI Errors and the Short Term Variation Yukio Takahashi (CRL) in VLBI 13:45-14:00 RISE (Research in Selenodesy) Project Nobuyuki Kawano (NAO) 14:00-14:15 Determination of Lunar Gravity Potential Kosuke Heki (NAO) with Differential VLBI and Doppler Tracking in the SELENE Project 14:15-14:30 Idea of Geospots - a New Proposition Debasish Roy (Geological for the Explanation of Continental Drift Survey of India) Tushar K. Das (Eastern Centre for Research in Astrophysics) 14:30-14:45 Fluctuation of Extragalactic Reference Mizuhiko Hosokawa (CRL) Frame due to Gravitational Lensing 14:45-15:00 Southern Hemisphere Maser Surveys with Victor Migenes (NAO) the APT Coffee Break Session 5 : Open Discussions Chairman : David Jauncey Sub Chairman : Taizoh Yoshino 15:20-16:20 Compatibilities between Different Data Acquisition Terminals Leading Talks by : Noriyuki Kawaguchi Alan R. Whitney Wayne H. Cannon 16:20-17:20 Exchange File Format (SINEX, VEX, LOG, ...) Leading Talks by : Ed Himwich Philip Edwards 17:20-18:00 Collaborations between APT and APSG Future proposals, sharing the resources, ... Concluding Remarks / Decisions of the Workshop Leading Talks by : David Jauncey Ye Shuhua Day 4 (Friday, December 13, 1996) 08:30-18:00 Excursion 1 (KSRC/CRL and GSI Tsukuba) Excursion 2 (KSRC/CRL, NAO Mitaka and CRL Tokyo) Poster Presentations December 10 - December 11 1. IAA Software Packages for Geodetic VLBI Andrej M. Finkelstein (IAA/RAS) 2. Time Synchronization via Communication Satellite Michail N. Kaidanovski (IAA/RAS) 3. Reference-Radio-Source Candidates for Tetsuo Sasao (NAO) VERA Observations Yoshiharu Asaki (NAO) Atsuya Okudaira(Kyoto U.) Toshihiro Omodaka (Kagoshima U.) 4. A Reflector-type Polarimeter for Millimeter-wave Hiroko Shinnaga Band (Ibaraki U.) 5. Pulsar VLBI on Kalyazin (Russia) - Kashima Alexander E. Rodin (Japan) Baseline (P.N.Lebedev Physical I.) 6. Fundamental Experiments of Radio Interferometer Jun Amagai (CRL) Using Fiberoptic Links Modulated in Radio Hiroo Kunimori (CRL) Frequency Hitoshi Kiuchi (CRL) 7. Low Noise HEMT Receivers and K-4 VLBI Back-end Nihon Tsushinki Co. Ltd. System 8. Applications of High Speed Digital Data TOSHIBA Corporation Recorders for VLBI Observations 9. Automated VLBI Operations with the Digital Mass SONY Corporation Storage System 10. A New 32m Antenna System to be Constructed at NEC Corporation Tsukuba 11. Hydrogen Maser System and Future Frequency Anritsu Corporation Standard Technologies 12. 1024 Mbps Digital VLBI Interface for GBR1000 Yamashita Engineering Data Recorder Manufacture Inc. 13. VLBI Correlator Control Software Hiroto Sato (Kety Co. Ltd.) 14. Design of Radix 4 FFT Based Butterfly LSI Naoki Tanaka (Waseda U.) S. Sudo (Waseda U.) Y. Saito (Waseda U.) M. Suzuki (Waseda U.) M. Adachi (Waseda U.) T. Daishido (Waseda U.) S. Iwase (SONY) 15. 2^24 Point FFT Processor Design for Real Time Hiroshi Takeuchi Pulsar Survey (Waseda U.) N. Tanaka (Waseda U.) S. Sudo (Waseda U.) Y. Saito (Waseda U.) M. Suzuki (Waseda U.) M. Adachi (Waseda U.) T. Daishido (Waseda U.) N. Watanabe (Hitachi) 16. Radioastron Mission Sergey F. Likhachev (ASC) 17. VLBI Activity of ASC on Russian Deep Space Igor E. Molotov (ASC) Tracking Network 18. Progress Report on Results of Igor E. Molotov (ASC) Bear Lakes-Tidbinbilla Experiment Sergey F. Likhachev (ASC) A.Chuprikov (ASC) David L. Jauncey (CSIRO) John Reynolds (ATNF) V. Alekseev (RRI) B. Lipatov (RRI) Valery I. Altunin (JPL) V. Grachev (IAA) A. Ratner (IAA) V. Frolov (IAA) B. Poperechenko (SDDMPEI) Yu. Gorshenkov (SDDMPEI) 19. Estimation of Mean Lower Mantle Viscosity by Zhigen Yang (NAO) Using the Results of Space Geodetic Techniques Seiji Manabe (NAO) Koichi Yokoyama (NAO) Nobuyuki Kawano (NAO)