COVER INFORMATION Station: MEDICINA (Code Mc ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: N17L2 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.40 Release 11.4. March 14, 2015 PI: Ross Burns Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596508 EMAIL: burns@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596508 Observing mode: Notes: 18cm (L-band) NME and ftp fringe test for session 1/2017 (512 Mbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 8 MHz filters) Please send the disk pack by express to JIVE COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 18cm NME and ftp fringe-test on 25 May 2017 involving 15 antennas. JB2, WB1, EF, MC, ON85, T6, UR, TR, Sv, Zc, Bd, Hh, Ir, Ro70. The NME uses 16x BBC (8 for each Pol.) of 8MHz bandwidth: Data rate of 512 Mbps. The schedule consists of: - long integrations on strong calibrators: J0854+2006, J0956+2515 for ftp-fringe tests; Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled every half hour throughout the experiment: 12:25:00 (scan 2, 2 sec, J0854+2006) 12:55:00 (scan 4, 2 sec, J0854+2006) 13:25:00 (scan 6, 2 sec, J0854+2006) 13:55:00 (scan 8, 2 sec, J0956+2515) 14:25:00 (scan 10, 2 sec, J0956+2515) 14:55:00 (scan 12, 2 sec, J0956+2515) All the best to eveyone involved Ross Skype account: jive.support.scientist Schedule for MEDICINA (Code Mc ) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Thu 25 May 2017 Day 145 --- Next scan frequencies: 1634.49 1634.49 1634.49 1634.49 1650.49 1650.49 1650.49 1650.49 1666.49 1666.49 1666.49 1666.49 1682.49 1682.49 1682.49 1682.49 Next BBC frequencies: 339.49 339.49 339.49 339.49 355.49 355.49 355.49 355.49 371.49 371.49 371.49 371.49 387.49 387.49 387.49 387.49 Next scan bandwidths: 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 12 00 00 J0854+2006 04 59 39 35.8 456.7 -3.9 -48.9 0 0 12 00 00 12 14 00 =OJ287 05 13 41 38.3 459.4 -3.7 -48.5 840 54 12 00 01 12 15 00 J0854+2006 05 14 41 38.5 459.6 -3.7 -48.4 57 54 12 15 00 12 29 00 =OJ287 05 28 43 40.9 462.5 -3.5 -47.8 840 108 12 15 01 12 31 00 J0854+2006 05 30 44 41.3 462.9 -3.4 -47.7 117 108 12 31 00 12 44 00 =OJ287 05 43 46 43.5 465.7 -3.2 -46.9 780 158 12 31 01 12 45 00 J0854+2006 05 44 46 43.7 465.9 -3.2 -46.9 57 158 12 45 00 12 59 00 =OJ287 05 58 48 46.1 469.1 -2.9 -45.8 840 213 12 45 01 13 00 00 J0854+2006 05 59 48 46.2 469.4 -2.9 -45.7 57 213 13 00 00 13 14 00 =OJ287 06 13 51 48.6 472.8 -2.7 -44.4 840 267 13 00 01 13 15 00 J0854+2006 06 14 51 48.7 473.1 -2.7 -44.3 57 267 13 15 00 13 29 00 =OJ287 06 28 53 51.0 476.8 -2.4 -42.6 840 321 13 15 01 13 30 00 J0956+2515 06 29 53 44.1 457.0 -3.5 -51.4 30 321 13 30 00 13 44 00 =OK290 06 43 56 46.6 459.8 -3.2 -50.9 840 375 13 30 01 13 45 00 J0956+2515 06 44 56 46.7 460.0 -3.2 -50.9 57 375 13 45 00 13 59 00 =OK290 06 58 58 49.2 463.1 -3.0 -50.1 840 429 13 45 01 14 01 00 J0956+2515 07 00 59 49.5 463.5 -2.9 -50.0 117 429 14 01 00 14 14 00 =OK290 07 14 01 51.8 466.5 -2.7 -49.0 780 479 14 01 01 14 15 00 J0956+2515 07 15 01 52.0 466.8 -2.7 -49.0 57 479 14 15 00 14 29 00 =OK290 07 29 03 54.3 470.3 -2.5 -47.6 840 533 14 15 01 14 30 00 J0956+2515 07 30 03 54.5 470.6 -2.5 -47.5 57 533 14 30 00 14 44 00 =OK290 07 44 06 56.8 474.4 -2.2 -45.8 840 587 14 30 01 14 45 00 J0956+2515 07 45 06 57.0 474.7 -2.2 -45.7 57 587 14 45 00 14 59 00 =OK290 07 59 08 59.2 479.0 -2.0 -43.6 840 642 14 45 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess217.L512nme --- 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: 13 Station: MEDICINA Total bit rate: 512 Format: VDIF Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 16.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: DBBC_DDC Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 1295.00 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 3 11 3 11 5 13 5 13 7 15 7 15 BBC SB= L L U U L L U U L L U U L L U U IF = A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 B1 D1 B1 D1 B1 D1 B1 D1 The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 4 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = off LO sum= 1634.49 1634.49 1634.49 1634.49 1650.49 1650.49 1650.49 1650.49 1666.49 1666.49 1666.49 1666.49 1682.49 1682.49 1682.49 1682.49 BBC fr= 339.49 339.49 339.49 339.49 355.49 355.49 355.49 355.49 371.49 371.49 371.49 371.49 387.49 387.49 387.49 387.49 Bandwd= 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 Matching frequency sets: 4 Track assignments are: track1= 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 barrel=roll_off POSITIONS OF SOURCES USED IN RECORDING SCANS Source Source position (RA/Dec) Error (B1950) (J2000) (Date) (mas) OJ287 08 51 57.250615 * 08 54 48.874926 08 55 47.125452 0.00 * J0854+2006 20 17 58.41743 * 20 06 30.64088 20 02 29.08809 0.00 0851+202 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc J0854+20 GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 216540 observations. OK290 09 53 59.738481 * 09 56 49.875375 09 57 47.866497 0.41 * J0956+2515 25 29 33.58582 * 25 15 16.04992 25 10 20.70518 0.38 0953+254 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc J0956+25 GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 26571 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 J0854+2006 sess217.L512nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 + 1.383 211.650 J0956+2515 sess217.L512nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 + 1.383 211.302 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) J0854+2006 66.2 J0956+2515 78.5 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