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Ray et al. 1995
Ray, J.R., Carter, W.E. and Robertson, D.S. (1995). Assessment of the accuracy of daily UT1 determinations by very long baseline interferometry. Journal of Geophysical Research 100: doi: 10.1029/95JB00151. issn: 0148-0227.

By comparing UT1 determinations from the International Radio Interferometric Surveying intensive program of quasi-daily, single-baseline, 1-hour very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) measurement sessions with coincident, multibaseline 24-hour VLBI determinations, we estimate the overall accuracy of the intensive UT1 results, averaged over 5.4 years of data. to be ~52 μs, depending somewhat on the amount of error attributed to the multibaseline results. The largest error contributions are due to interpolated values for polar motion X and Y coordinates (≤38 μs), short-term variability in atmospheric propagation (~48 μs during summers but much less at other times), and extended brightness structures in the radio sources (~22 μs). Because the atmospheric effect is most pronounced during summers, the UT1 accuracy of the intensives is ~47 μs most of the year but degrades to ~67 μs during the third quarter of each year.

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Geodesy and Gravity, Rotational variations, Geodesy and Gravity, Diurnal and subdiurnal rotational variations, Geodesy and Gravity, Standards and absolute measurements, Geodesy and Gravity, Instruments and techniques
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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