COVER INFORMATION Station: BADARY (Code Bd ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: F21K1 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.60 Release 11.6; April 2020 PI: Dhanya Nair Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596508 EMAIL: nair@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596508 Observing mode: Notes: 1.3 cm (K-band) ftp fringe test for session 1/2021 (2048 Mbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 16 x 32 MHz filters) Please send the disk pack by express to JIVE, NO PCAL Please DO NOT use the phase cal signal. COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 1.3 cm K-band fringe test on 15th March 2021 from 13:30-14:30 UT involving the following antennas: Jb2 Ef Mc On60 T6 Ur Tr Ys Hh Sv Zc Bd Sr Kt Ky Ku The FTP-test uses a standard setup at 2048 Mbps: The schedule consists of long integrations on strong calibrator: The following ftp-fringe tests are scheduled throughout the experiment (UT times): 13:38:00 scan01 J0530+1331 13:58:00 scan03 J0530+1331 14:18:00 scan05 J0530+1331 Clear skies! Dhanya G.Nair Mattermost: coms.evlbi.org Schedule for BADARY (Code Bd ) 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 15 Mar 2021 Day 74 --- Next scan frequencies: 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 Next BBC frequencies: 219.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 Next scan bandwidths: 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 13 30 00 J0530+1331 07 52 26 42.6 589.3 2.3 28.9 0 0 13 30 00 13 40 00 =0528+134 08 02 28 41.4 592.2 2.5 30.2 600 154 13 30 01 13 43 00 J0530+1331 08 05 28 41.0 593.0 2.6 30.6 173 154 13 43 00 13 47 00 =0528+134 08 09 29 40.5 594.1 2.6 31.1 240 215 13 43 01 13 50 00 J0530+1331 08 12 30 40.1 594.9 2.7 31.4 173 215 13 50 00 14 00 00 =0528+134 08 22 31 38.8 597.6 2.8 32.5 600 369 13 50 01 14 03 00 J0530+1331 08 25 32 38.4 598.4 2.9 32.8 173 369 14 03 00 14 07 00 =0528+134 08 29 32 37.9 599.5 3.0 33.2 240 431 14 03 01 14 10 00 J0530+1331 08 32 33 37.5 600.2 3.0 33.5 173 431 14 10 00 14 20 00 =0528+134 08 42 34 36.1 602.7 3.2 34.5 600 585 14 10 01 14 23 00 J0530+1331 08 45 35 35.7 603.5 3.2 34.7 173 585 14 23 00 14 27 00 =0528+134 08 49 36 35.2 604.5 3.3 35.1 240 646 14 23 01 14 28 00 J0530+1331 08 50 36 35.0 604.7 3.3 35.1 54 646 14 28 00 14 30 00 =0528+134 08 52 36 34.7 605.2 3.3 35.3 120 677 14 28 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess121.K2048 Matching groups in /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.6/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat: kvzr_k Added by Des Small, 24 February 2012 Setup group: 3 Station: BADARY Total bit rate: 2048 Format: MARK5B Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 64.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 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 9 1 9 2 10 2 10 3 11 3 11 4 12 4 12 BBC SB= L L U U L L U U L L U U L L U U IF = A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 10 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = off LO sum= 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 BBC fr= 219.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 Bandwd= 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 Matching frequency sets: 10 11 12 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) 0528+134 05 28 06.759216 * 05 30 56.416746 05 32 07.259142 0.21 * J0530+1331 13 29 42.28882 * 13 31 55.14948 13 32 46.58655 0.24 J0530+13 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.6/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 138236 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 J0530+1331 sess121.K2048 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 13 14 0.733 88.000 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) J0530+1331 87.9 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