Bob's Preliminary Home Page



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I'll get around to making it visually more stimulating -- maybe when magic elves come and start taking care of my actual work


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Here are some things that can be downloaded:

A full-color version (GZIPped postscript) of Figure 1 from my IAU Symp. 205 contribution (Pulsar Astrometry) showing Monte Carlo birthplaces of two pulsars projected onto the Galactic plane.

A write-up of my intro-to-VLBI lecture from the Nov'99 JIVE/EVN school.

Copies of posters (in convenient A4-size) made for the public open day held in Dwingeloo 7 Oct 2001 in conjuction with National Science Week:

Pulsar Astrometry: [ ps format], [ pdf format].

The Ionosphere: [ ps format], [ pdf format].

Geodesy (VLBI applied to studying the Earth): [ ps format], [ pdf format].

A copy of the paper about the MkIV Data Processor at JIVE (the JIVE correlator) presented at the 16th working group for European Geodetic and Astrometric VLBI (Leipzig, May 2003). This also now exists in a web-based version.

A full-color copy of the Operational Flow and Data-Review diagrams for observation/correlation of an EVN experiment on the JIVE correlator.

A description of the delay=0 (correlating headers) and rate=0 (fringe-rotator stopped) problems at the correlator, with examples and simulations (updated 6 apr 00 version).

A diagnostic guide for DMM and TRM byte slips (21 jun 02 version).

Guides to operational procedures for the correlator (these are migrating to the wiki, as they get revised):

Pre-correlation (20 sep 02 version)

Experiment Preparation Checklist.

Post-Correlation Review Checklist.

Manuals/explanations for various programs related to ionospheric efeects on VLBI observations. These are all works in progress, and are subject to change when I get the chance to work on improving them.

Guide to PIMVLBI4, a means to generate ionospheric delay and Faraday rotation contributions using the USAF PIM model and GPS observations if available (latest mod: 23jan2003 upgrading from IGRF95 --> IGRF2000).

Guide to using GPS data in conjunction with PIMVLBI4.

Guide to GPSAZEL, a way to display GPS satellites as seen from a selected station on a given day (to check for possible RFI around 1575.42/1127.6 MHz).

A guide to baseball/softball, written with a view to helping those unfortunates having had a culturally deprived childhood overcome the void they assuredly must feel in their souls, lacking an intuitive communion with the universe's greatest sport (at least, that doesn't require strapping metal blades on one's feet) -- now with color figures. This now exists in a (prelimiary) web-based version.