SAI VLBI Analysis Center Activities

V.E.Zharov1 , M.B. Kaufman1

1Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU, Moscow, Russia

Poster presentation

Since September 2008, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow
State University is an IVS Analysis Center and thus a permanent
component. This report presents the activities of the SAI VLBI Analysis Center during 2008. The SAI Analysis Center analyzes all IVS sessions, and begun regular IVS submissions of data.  The SAI analysis group routinely analyzes all IVS sessions using original the ARIADNA software. 
Our plans for the next year include: participation in the development of the ICRF2, continued source monitoring, revision of the geodetic source catalog, participation in VLBI2010 development efforts, improvement of algorithms and software for processing VLBI observations.