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Table 1 Weight factor combinations leading to the best schedule for the 12 + 1 and 18 + 1 station training networks

From: Optimal antenna locations of the VLBI Global Observing System for the estimation of Earth orientation parameters

12 + 1

\(\omega _{{\text{sky}}}\)

\(\omega _{{\text{nobs}}}\)

\(\omega _{{\text{dur}}}\)

\(\omega _{{\text{idle}}}\)

18 + 1

\(\omega _{{\text{sky}}}\)

\(\omega _{{\text{nobs}}}\)

\(\omega _{{\text{dur}}}\)

\(\omega _{{\text{idle}}}\)

\(\vec {\omega }_{p1}\)

0.67

1.00

1.00

0.33

\(\vec {\omega }_{p1}\)

0.67

0.00

0.33

0.67

\(\vec {\omega }_{p2}\)

1.00

0.67

0.33

0.33

\(\vec {\omega }_{p2}\)

1.00

0.00

0.67

1.00

\(\vec {\omega }_{p3}\)

0.67

1.00

0.67

0.33

\(\vec {\omega }_{p3}\)

0.33

0.00

0.33

1.00

\(\vec {\omega }_{p4}\)

0.33

0.67

0.67

0.33

\(\vec {\omega }_{p4}\)

1.00

0.33

0.33

1.00

\(\vec {\omega }_{p5}\)

0.67

0.33

0.67

0.67

\(\vec {\omega }_{p5}\)

1.00

0.33

0.67

1.00

\(\vec {\omega }_{p6}\)

0.67

0.00

0.67

1.00

\(\vec {\omega }_{p6}\)

0.33

0.00

0.00

0.00

\(\vec {\omega }_{p7}\)

1.00

0.33

0.67

0.67

\(\vec {\omega }_{p7}\)

0.67

0.00

0.00

0.33

  1. Each row corresponds to one combination of weight factors \(\vec {\omega }\) leading to the best result for a network with the additional antenna located at position p1–p7 (see Fig. 2)