COVER INFORMATION Station: HART (Code Hh ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: N21L2 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.60 Release 11.6; April 2020 PI: Benito Marcote Address: JIVE Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4 7991PD Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31 521 596 508 EMAIL: marcote@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31 521 596 508 Observing mode: Notes: 18cm NME and ftp fringe test for Session 2 2021 (1024 Mbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 32 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 27 May 2021 involving the following antennas: Jb1, Wb, Ef, Mc, Nt, On85, T6, Ur, Tr, Hh, Sv, Zc, Bd, Ir, Sr, Cm, Da, De, Kn, Pi. The NME uses a standard setup with 1024 Mbps. The schedule consists of long integrations on calibrators J0956+2515. The following ftp-fringe tests are scheduled throughout the experiment (UT times): 12:10:00 (scan 2, 2 sec, J0956+2515) 12:40:00 (scan 4, 2 sec, J0956+2515) 13:10:00 (scan 6, 2 sec, J0956+2515) 13:40:00 (scan 8, 2 sec, J0956+2515) 14:10:00 (scan 10, 2 sec, J0956+2515) 14:40:00 (scan 12, 2 sec, J0956+2515) Good luck with the session! Benito Marcote Mattermost: coms.evlbi.org Schedule for HART (Code Hh ) 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 27 May 2021 Day 147 --- Next scan frequencies: 1626.49 1626.49 1626.49 1626.49 1690.49 1690.49 1690.49 1690.49 Next BBC frequencies: 116.49 116.49 116.49 116.49 180.49 180.49 180.49 180.49 Next scan bandwidths: 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 12 00 00 J0956+2515 06 11 48 15.3 51.5 -3.8 0.0 0 0 12 00 00 12 02 00 =OK290 06 13 49 15.6 51.2 -3.7 0.0 120 15 12 00 01 12 07 00 J0956+2515 06 18 50 16.5 50.5 -3.7 0.0 279 15 12 07 00 12 12 00 =OK290 06 23 50 17.4 49.7 -3.6 0.0 300 54 12 07 01 12 15 00 J0956+2515 06 26 51 17.9 49.2 -3.5 0.0 159 54 12 15 00 12 27 00 =OK290 06 38 53 19.9 47.3 -3.3 0.0 720 147 12 15 01 12 30 00 J0956+2515 06 41 53 20.4 46.8 -3.3 0.0 159 147 12 30 00 12 42 00 =OK290 06 53 55 22.3 44.8 -3.1 0.0 720 240 12 30 01 12 45 00 J0956+2515 06 56 56 22.8 44.2 -3.0 0.0 159 240 12 45 00 12 57 00 =OK290 07 08 58 24.6 42.1 -2.8 0.0 720 332 12 45 01 13 00 00 J0956+2515 07 11 58 25.1 41.5 -2.8 0.0 159 332 13 00 00 13 12 00 =OK290 07 24 00 26.8 39.2 -2.6 0.0 720 425 13 00 01 13 15 00 J0956+2515 07 27 01 27.3 38.6 -2.5 0.0 159 425 13 15 00 13 27 00 =OK290 07 39 03 28.9 36.1 -2.3 0.0 720 518 13 15 01 13 30 00 J0956+2515 07 42 03 29.3 35.5 -2.3 0.0 159 518 13 30 00 13 42 00 =OK290 07 54 05 30.8 32.9 -2.1 0.0 720 611 13 30 01 13 45 00 J0956+2515 07 57 06 31.2 32.2 -2.0 0.0 159 611 13 45 00 13 57 00 =OK290 08 09 08 32.6 29.4 -1.8 0.0 720 703 13 45 01 14 00 00 J0956+2515 08 12 08 32.9 28.7 -1.8 0.0 159 703 14 00 00 14 12 00 =OK290 08 24 10 34.2 25.8 -1.6 0.0 720 796 14 00 01 14 15 00 J0956+2515 08 27 11 34.4 25.1 -1.5 0.0 159 796 14 15 00 14 27 00 =OK290 08 39 13 35.5 22.0 -1.3 0.0 720 889 14 15 01 14 30 00 J0956+2515 08 42 13 35.8 21.2 -1.3 0.0 159 889 14 30 00 14 42 00 =OK290 08 54 15 36.7 18.1 -1.1 0.0 720 982 14 30 01 14 45 00 J0956+2515 08 57 15 36.9 17.3 -1.0 0.0 159 982 14 45 00 14 57 00 =OK290 09 09 17 37.6 14.0 -0.8 0.0 720 1074 14 45 01 14 58 00 J0956+2515 09 10 18 37.7 13.7 -0.8 0.0 39 1074 14 58 00 15 00 00 =OK290 09 12 18 37.8 13.1 -0.8 0.0 120 1090 14 58 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess221.L1024 Matching groups in /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.6/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat: hh18cm Values confirmed by E-mail Jonathan Quick 20140219 (CR) ****** Only 122.49 of 256.00 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: 1024 Format: VDIF Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 64.000 Number of channels: 8 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 Net SB= L L U U L L U U IF SB = U U U U U U U U Pol. = RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP RCP LCP BBC = 1 9 1 9 2 10 2 10 BBC SB= L L U U L L U U IF = 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= 1626.49 1626.49 1626.49 1626.49 1690.49 1690.49 1690.49 1690.49 BBC fr= 116.49 116.49 116.49 116.49 180.49 180.49 180.49 180.49 Bandwd= 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 Matching frequency sets: 10 Track assignments are: track1= 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 barrel=roll_off POSITIONS OF SOURCES USED IN RECORDING SCANS Source Source position (RA/Dec) Error (B1950) (J2000) (Date) (mas) OK290 09 53 59.738482 * 09 56 49.875376 09 58 01.250003 0.41 * J0956+2515 25 29 33.58581 * 25 15 16.04991 25 09 19.59708 0.37 0953+254 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.6/catalogs/sources.gsfc J0956+25 GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 26975 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 J0956+2515 sess221.L1024 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 + 2.350 446.500 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) J0956+2515 76.7 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