The SFXC software correlator for very long baseline interferometry: algorithms and implementation

A Keimpema, MM Kettenis, SV Pogrebenko… - Experimental …, 2015 - Springer
… In this paper a description is given of the SFXC software correlator, developed and … The
software is designed to run on generic Linux-based computing clusters. The correlation algorithm …

DiFX: a software correlator for very long baseline interferometry using multiprocessor computing environments

AT Deller, SJ Tingay, M Bailes… - Publications of the …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
correlators currently operating or in design, but it differs from the software correlator
The approach we used in the development of the software correlator was largely inspired by …

Software correlator for radioastron mission

SF Likhachev, VI Kostenko, IA Girin… - Journal of …, 2017 - World Scientific
… The algorithms of time delay and delay rate calculation are also discussed, which is a
matter of principle for data correlation of space–ground interferometers. During five years of …

VieRDS: A Software to Simulate Raw Telescope Data for Very Long Baseline Interferometry

J Gruber, A Nothnagel, J Böhm - Publications of the Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… The simulated data can be correlated and fringe-fitted by commonly used VLBI software
correlators and fringe-fitting programs. VieRDS is thus an ideal tool for testing hypotheses of …

The correlation process in Very Long Baseline Interferometry

A Nothnagel - GEM-International Journal on Geomathematics, 2019 - Springer
… Although the modern software correlators are scalable, new bottlenecks appear when others
have been opened by new hardware solutions. Currently the speed of the output of large …

Model-based Performance Characterization of Software Correlators for Radio Interferometer Arrays

AJ Vázquez, P Elosegui, CJ Lonsdale… - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
… Existing literature has generally benchmarked correlators … increasing complexity in software
correlation together with … us not only to characterize existing correlators and predict their …

Very long baseline interferometry

A Nothnagel - … : Handbuch der Geodäsie, herausgegeben von Willi …, 2020 - Springer
… Thus, instead of one large sinc-like correlation peak we will expect the actual correlation
maximum to be surrounded by a certain number of slightly lower peaks, to which one refers to …

Geodetic VLBI correlation in software

SJ Tingay, W Alef, D Graham, AT Deller - Journal of Geodesy, 2009 - Springer
… Abstract Correlation algorithms for geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) can
now be effectively implemented on parallel computers of modest size. We have undertaken a …

Comparison of very long baseline interferometry, GPS, and satellite laser ranging height residuals from ITRF2005 using spectral and correlation methods

X Collilieux, Z Altamimi, D Coulot… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… time series of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), Global … sites indicates that the good
correlation cannot be completely … We have consequently added this feature to the software. …

A VLBI Software Correlator for Fast Radio Transients

C Leung, S Andrew, KW Masui, C Brar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
… been demonstrated using connected-element interferometry; the CHIME/FRB Outriggers …
long baseline interferometry (VLBI). This paper describes an offline VLBI software correlator