The Potsdam open source radio interferometry tool (Port)
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 133, issue 1028
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The Potsdam Open Source Radio Interferometry Tool (PORT) is the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) analysis software developed and maintained at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. Chiefly, PORT is tasked with the timely processing of VLBI sessions and post-processing activities supporting the generation of celestial and terrestrial reference frames. In addition, it serves as a framework for research and development within the GFZ's VLBI working group and is part of the tool set employed in educating young researchers. Starting out from VLBI group delays, PORT estimates station and radio sources positions, as well as Earth orientation parameters, tropospheric parameters, and station clock offsets and drifts. The estimation procedures take into account all the necessary data analysis models that were agreed on for contributing to the ITRF2020 processing activities. The PORT code base is implemented in the MATLAB (R) and Python programming languages. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and available for download at GFZ's Git server .Description
Funding Information: Research development for PORT was funded partially by the German Research Foundation (ECORAS-2, SCHU 1103/7-2 and HE5937/2-2). K.B. was funded by the Deutsche For-schungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)— Project-ID 434617780—SFB 1464 (TerraQ). M.H.X. was supported by the Academy of Finland project No. 315721. S.B. was supported by Generalitat Valenciana SEJIGENT program (SEJIGENT/2021/001). The PORT source code is based on VieVS@GFZ which itself is a fork branched off from VieVS in 2012. In addition, the code contains MATLAB® adaptions of a significant number of IERS library functions (Petit & Luzum 2010) and modified GNU Octave (Eaton et al. 2008; Hansen 2011) routines. Software routines from the International Astronomical Union (IAU) SOFA Collection were used. Copyright ©International Astronomical Union Standards of Fundamental Astronomy (https://www.iausofa.org) (IAU SOFA Board 2021). Source code written by or adapted from D. Agnew, Julien Bect, Johannes Böhm, Sigrid Böhm (née Englich), Maximilien Chaumon, John R. D’Errico, Daniel Gambis, Kurt Hornik, Paul Kienzle, Hana Krásná (née Spicakova), Klemens Lagler, Daniel Landskron, Lucia MacCallum (née Plank), Matthias Madzak, Oliver Montenbruck, Vahab Nafisi, Andrea Pany, Sean Reilly, Beth E. Stetzler, Jing Sun, Kamil Teke, Volker Tesmer, Claudia Tierno Ros, Oleg Titov, Rik Wehbring, Nestor Zarraoa and Nataliya Zubko are acknowledged. We thank the anonymous reviewer for his/her comments and corrections. Publisher Copyright: © 2021. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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Schuh, H, Heinkelmann, R, Beyerle, G, Anderson, J M, Balidakis, K, Belda, S, Dhar, S, Glaser, S, Jenie, O S, Karbon, M, Kitpracha, C, Küreç Nehbit, P, Liu, L, Lunz, S, Mammadaliyev, N, Modiri, S, Nilsson, T J, Raut, S, Soja, B, Wang, J & Xu, M H 2021, 'The Potsdam open source radio interferometry tool (Port)', Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 133, no. 1028, 104503. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ac299c