COVER INFORMATION Station: HART (Code Hh ) Experiment: FTP Fringe Test Exp. Code: F18L1 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.40 Release 11.4. March 14, 2015 PI: Katharina Immer Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596508 EMAIL: immer@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596508 Observing mode: Notes: 18cm (L-band) ftp fringe test for session 2/2018 (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 ftp fringe-test on 28 May 2018 involving 11 antennas. JB2, WB1, EF, MC, ON85, TR, SV, ZC, BD, HH, SR. The NME uses 16x BBC (8 for each Pol.) of 8MHz bandwidth: Data rate of 512 Mbps. The schedule consists of: - long integrations on a strong calibrator: 3C84 for ftp-fringe tests; Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled every 15 min throughout the experiment: 11:05:00 (scan 2, 2 sec, 3C84) 11:20:00 (scan 4, 2 sec, 3C84) 11:35:00 (scan 6, 2 sec, 3C84) 11:50:00 (scan 8, 2 sec, 3C84) All the best to everyone involved Katharina Schedule for HART (Code Hh ) Page 2 FTP Fringe Test 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 28 May 2018 Day 148 --- 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: 124.49 124.49 124.49 124.49 140.49 140.49 140.49 140.49 156.49 156.49 156.49 156.49 172.49 172.49 172.49 172.49 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 11 00 00 3C84 05 14 30 17.6 338.1 1.9 0.0 0 0 11 00 00 11 09 00 --- 05 23 32 16.8 336.5 2.0 0.0 540 35 11 00 01 11 10 00 3C84 05 24 32 16.7 336.4 2.1 0.0 39 35 11 10 00 11 24 00 --- 05 38 34 15.4 334.0 2.3 0.0 840 89 11 10 01 11 25 00 3C84 05 39 34 15.3 333.8 2.3 0.0 39 89 11 25 00 11 39 00 --- 05 53 37 13.9 331.6 2.5 0.0 840 143 11 25 01 11 45 00 0528+134 05 59 38 50.0 349.5 0.5 0.0 268 143 11 45 00 11 54 00 --- 06 08 39 49.6 346.2 0.6 0.0 540 178 11 45 01 11 55 00 0528+134 06 09 39 49.5 345.8 0.6 0.0 39 178 11 55 00 12 00 00 --- 06 14 40 49.2 344.0 0.7 0.0 300 197 11 55 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess218.L512 Matching groups in /home/jops/sched_11.4mod/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat: hh18cm Values confirmed by E-mail Jonathan Quick 20140219 (CR) ****** Only 64.00 of 128.00 MHz total bandwidth is within the IFs in the setup file before any FREQ or DOPPLER shifts. Setup group: 8 Station: HART 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= 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 1510.00 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 = A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 A1 C1 The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 10 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= 124.49 124.49 124.49 124.49 140.49 140.49 140.49 140.49 156.49 156.49 156.49 156.49 172.49 172.49 172.49 172.49 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: 10 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) * 3C84 03 16 29.567263 * 03 19 48.160094 03 20 58.852807 1.30 J0319+4130 41 19 51.91701 * 41 30 42.10413 41 34 23.71744 2.69 0316+413 /home/jops/sched_11.4mod/catalogs/sources.gsfc J0319+41 GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 10208 observations. * 0528+134 05 28 06.759216 * 05 30 56.416747 05 31 56.587118 0.21 J0530+1331 13 29 42.28885 * 13 31 55.14952 13 32 32.15841 0.24 J0530+13 /home/jops/sched_11.4mod/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 135789 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 3C84 sess218.L512 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 0.617 33.917 0528+134 sess218.L512 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 0.233 12.833 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) 3C84 23.7 0528+134 18.6 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