COVER INFORMATION Station: WSTRBORK (Code Wb ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: N17M1 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.40 Release 11.4. March 14, 2015 PI: Jay Blanchard Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596508 EMAIL: blanchard@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596508 Observing mode: Notes: 5cm (M-band) ftp fringe test for session 2/2017 (128 Mbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 16 x 2 MHz filters) Please send the disk pack by express to JIVE COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 6cm M band test on 05 June 2017 involving 9 telescopes: Jb2, Wb1, Ef, Mc, Nt, O8, Tr, Ys, Ir The FTP-NME uses a standard setup with 128 Mbps. The schedule consists of: - long integrations on strong calibrators: for ftp-fringe tests; Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled every half hour throughout the experiment: 12:28:00 J0319+4130 12:58:00 J0319+4130 13:28:00 J0319+4130 13:58:00 J0319+4130 14:28:00 J1927+7358 14:58:00 J1927+7358 Clear skies! Jay Skype account: jive.support.scientist Schedule for WSTRBORK (Code Wb ) Page 2 Network Monitoring Experiment UP: D => Below limits; H => Below horizon mask; W => still slewing at end; blank => Up. Early: Seconds between end of slew and start. Dwell: On source seconds. Disk: GBytes recorded to this point. TPStart: Recording start time. Frequencies are LO sum (band edge). SYNC: Time correlator is expected to sync up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start UT Source Start / Stop Early Disk TPStart Stop UT LST EL AZ HA UP ParA Dwell GBytes SYNC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mon 5 Jun 2017 Day 156 --- Next scan frequencies: 6661.49 6661.49 6661.49 6661.49 6665.49 6665.49 6665.49 6665.49 6669.49 6669.49 6669.49 6669.49 6673.49 6673.49 6673.49 6673.49 Next BBC frequencies: 397.49 397.49 397.49 397.49 401.49 401.49 401.49 401.49 405.49 405.49 405.49 405.49 409.49 409.49 409.49 409.49 Next scan bandwidths: 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 12 00 00 J0319+4130 05 22 47 66.7 253.2 2.0 0.0 0 0 12 00 00 12 15 00 =3C84 05 37 50 64.5 257.5 2.3 0.0 900 14 12 00 01 12 17 00 J0319+4130 05 39 50 64.2 258.0 2.3 0.0 109 14 12 17 00 12 30 00 =3C84 05 52 52 62.2 261.3 2.5 0.0 780 27 12 17 01 12 32 00 J0319+4130 05 54 53 61.9 261.8 2.6 0.0 109 27 12 32 00 12 45 00 =3C84 06 07 55 60.0 264.8 2.8 0.0 780 39 12 32 01 12 47 00 J0319+4130 06 09 55 59.7 265.3 2.8 0.0 109 39 12 47 00 13 00 00 =3C84 06 22 57 57.7 268.1 3.0 0.0 780 52 12 47 01 13 02 00 J0319+4130 06 24 58 57.4 268.5 3.1 0.0 109 52 13 02 00 13 15 00 =3C84 06 38 00 55.5 271.1 3.3 0.0 780 64 13 02 01 13 17 00 J0319+4130 06 40 00 55.2 271.5 3.3 0.0 109 64 13 17 00 13 30 00 =3C84 06 53 02 53.2 273.9 3.5 0.0 780 77 13 17 01 13 32 00 J0319+4130 06 55 03 52.9 274.3 3.6 0.0 109 77 13 32 00 13 45 00 =3C84 07 08 05 50.9 276.7 3.8 0.0 780 89 13 32 01 13 47 00 J0319+4130 07 10 05 50.6 277.0 3.8 0.0 109 89 13 47 00 14 00 00 =3C84 07 23 07 48.7 279.3 4.0 0.0 780 102 13 47 01 14 02 00 J0319+4130 07 25 08 48.4 279.6 4.1 0.0 109 102 14 02 00 14 15 00 =3C84 07 38 10 46.5 281.8 4.3 0.0 780 114 14 02 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess217.M128nme --- WARNING --- This group does not match an entry in the frequency catalog. This might be ok because the catalog is not complete. But be very careful to be sure that the setup is correct. Setup group: 2 Station: WSTRBORK Total bit rate: 128 Format: MARK5B Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 4.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: DBBC_DDC Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 Net SB= L L U U L L U U L L U U L L U U IF SB = U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U Pol. = RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP BBC = 1 5 1 5 2 6 2 6 3 7 3 7 4 8 4 8 BBC SB= L L U U L L U U L L U U L L U U IF = A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 2 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = off LO sum= 6661.49 6661.49 6661.49 6661.49 6665.49 6665.49 6665.49 6665.49 6669.49 6669.49 6669.49 6669.49 6673.49 6673.49 6673.49 6673.49 BBC fr= 397.49 397.49 397.49 397.49 401.49 401.49 401.49 401.49 405.49 405.49 405.49 405.49 409.49 409.49 409.49 409.49 Bandwd= 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Matching frequency sets: 2 Track assignments are: track1= 18, 26, 2, 10, 20, 28, 4, 12, 22, 30, 6, 14, 24, 32, 8, 16 barrel=roll_off POSITIONS OF SOURCES USED IN RECORDING SCANS Source Source position (RA/Dec) Error (B1950) (J2000) (Date) (mas) 3C84 03 16 29.567263 * 03 19 48.160094 03 20 55.475822 1.30 * J0319+4130 41 19 51.91701 * 41 30 42.10413 41 34 09.87766 2.69 0316+413 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc J0319+41 GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 10208 observations. 1928+738 19 28 49.350209 * 19 27 48.495162 19 27 31.710388 0.04 * J1927+7358 73 51 44.92746 * 73 58 01.56990 74 00 06.15074 0.01 J1927+73 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 4075 observations. SOURCE SCAN SUMMARY FOR SOURCES LISTED ABOVE Scan hours are for recording scans only. Baseline hours are only counted for scans above horizon at both ends. Source Setup file Frequency sets Observing hours (duplicates not shown) Scan Baseline J0319+4130 sess217.M128nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1.983 154.700 J1927+7358 sess217.M128nme 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 0.650 39.750 EFFECT OF SOLAR CORONA The solar corona can cause unstable phases for sources too close to the Sun. SCHED provides warnings at individual scans for distances less than 10 degrees. The distance from the Sun to each source in this schedule is: Source Sun distance (deg) J0319+4130 27.4 J1927+7358 80.3 Barry Clark estimates from predictions by Ketan Desai of IPM scattering sizes that the Sun will cause amplitude reductions on the longest VLBA baselines at a solar distance of 60deg F^(-0.6) where F is in GHz. For common VLBI bands, this is: 327 MHz 117. deg 610 MHz 81. deg 1.6 GHz 45. deg 2.3 GHz 36. deg 5.0 GHz 23. deg 8.4 GHz 17. deg 15.0 GHz 12. deg 22.0 GHz 9. deg 43.0 GHz 6. deg