COVER INFORMATION Station: URUMQI (Code Ur ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: N16K2 Schedule Version: 4.00 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: 1.3cm (K-band) NME and ftp fringe test for session 3/2016 (1 Gbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 16 MHz filters) Please send the disk pack by express to JIVE COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 1.3cm NME and ftp fringe-test on 4 November 2016 involving 17 antennas. JB2, EF, MC, Nt, ON60, Ur, Tr, Ys, Sv, Zc, Bd, Hh, Sr, Mh, Kt, Ky, Ku The NME uses a standard setup with 1 Gbps. The schedule consists of: - long integrations on strong calibrators: J1801+4404, J2123+0535, J2148+0657 for ftp-fringe tests; Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled every half hour throughout the experiment: 12:20:00 (scan 2, 2 sec, J1801+4404) 12:50:00 (scan 4, 2 sec, J1801+4404) 13:20:00 (scan 6, 2 sec, J2123+0535) 13:50:00 (scan 8, 2 sec, J2123+0535) 14:20:00 (scan 10, 2 sec, J2123+0535) 14:50:00 (scan 12, 2 sec, J2148+0657) All the best to eveyone involved Ross Skype account: jive.support.scientist Schedule for URUMQI (Code Ur ) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Fri 4 Nov 2016 Day 309 --- Next scan frequencies: 22187.49 22187.49 22187.49 22187.49 22219.49 22219.49 22219.49 22219.49 22251.49 22251.49 22251.49 22251.49 22283.49 22283.49 22283.49 22283.49 Next BBC frequencies: 187.49 187.49 187.49 187.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 251.49 251.49 251.49 251.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 Next scan bandwidths: 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 12 00 00 J1801+4404 20 45 22 60.8 -74.4 2.7 76.7 0 0 12 00 00 12 14 00 =1800+440 20 59 24 58.4 -73.2 3.0 75.3 840 108 12 00 04 12 15 00 J1801+4404 21 00 24 58.2 -73.1 3.0 75.2 58 108 12 15 00 12 29 00 =1800+440 21 14 27 55.8 -71.9 3.2 73.8 840 215 12 15 04 12 31 00 J1801+4404 21 16 27 55.4 -71.7 3.2 73.6 118 215 12 31 00 12 44 00 =1800+440 21 29 29 53.2 -70.5 3.5 72.3 780 315 12 31 04 12 45 00 J1801+4404 21 30 29 53.0 -70.4 3.5 72.2 58 315 12 45 00 12 59 00 =1800+440 21 44 32 50.6 -69.2 3.7 70.7 840 423 12 45 04 13 00 00 J2123+0535 21 45 32 51.9 188.5 0.3 6.2 -203 423 13 00 00 13 14 00 =2121+053 21 59 34 51.4 194.0 0.6 10.2 637 531 13 00 04 13 15 00 J2123+0535 22 00 34 51.4 194.4 0.6 10.5 58 531 13 15 00 13 29 00 =2121+053 22 14 37 50.6 199.9 0.8 14.3 840 638 13 15 04 13 30 00 J2123+0535 22 15 37 50.6 200.2 0.9 14.6 58 638 13 30 00 13 44 00 =2121+053 22 29 39 49.6 205.5 1.1 18.3 840 746 13 30 04 13 45 00 J2123+0535 22 30 39 49.5 205.8 1.1 18.5 58 746 13 45 00 13 59 00 =2121+053 22 44 41 48.3 210.8 1.3 21.9 840 854 13 45 04 14 00 00 J2123+0535 22 45 42 48.2 211.2 1.4 22.2 58 854 14 00 00 14 14 00 =2121+053 22 59 44 46.8 215.9 1.6 25.3 840 962 14 00 04 14 15 00 J2123+0535 23 00 44 46.7 216.2 1.6 25.5 58 962 14 15 00 14 29 00 =2121+053 23 14 46 45.1 220.7 1.8 28.4 840 1069 14 15 04 14 30 00 J2148+0657 23 15 47 48.9 213.9 1.4 24.1 49 1069 14 30 00 14 44 00 =2145+067 23 29 49 47.4 218.7 1.7 27.2 840 1177 14 30 04 14 45 00 J2148+0657 23 30 49 47.3 219.0 1.7 27.4 58 1177 14 45 00 14 59 00 =2145+067 23 44 51 45.6 223.4 1.9 30.2 840 1285 14 45 04 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess316.K1024nme Matching groups in /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat: ur1cmd Dummy dual-pol entry, only LCP available (CR 2Jul02). Setup group: 1 Station: URUMQI Total bit rate: 1024 Format: MARK5B Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 32.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 22000.00 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 = 2 1 2 1 4 3 4 3 6 5 6 5 8 7 8 7 BBC SB= L L U U L L U U L L U U L L U U IF = 2N 1N 2N 1N 2N 1N 2N 1N 2N 1N 2N 1N 2N 1N 2N 1N The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 6 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = off LO sum= 22187.49 22187.49 22187.49 22187.49 22219.49 22219.49 22219.49 22219.49 22251.49 22251.49 22251.49 22251.49 22283.49 22283.49 22283.49 22283.49 BBC fr= 187.49 187.49 187.49 187.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 251.49 251.49 251.49 251.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 Bandwd= 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 Matching frequency sets: 6 Track assignments are: track1= 20, 18, 4, 2, 24, 22, 8, 6, 28, 26, 12, 10, 32, 30, 16, 14 barrel=roll_off POSITIONS OF SOURCES USED IN RECORDING SCANS Source Source position (RA/Dec) Error (B1950) (J2000) (Date) (mas) 1800+440 18 00 03.197728 * 18 01 32.314822 18 02 00.743197 0.01 * J1801+4404 44 04 18.35299 * 44 04 21.90029 44 04 47.20854 0.01 J1801+44 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 6350 observations. 2121+053 21 21 14.801996 * 21 23 44.517403 21 24 34.620392 0.29 * J2123+0535 05 22 27.44225 * 05 35 22.09305 05 39 55.53160 0.31 J2123+05 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 51201 observations. 2145+067 21 45 36.078475 * 21 48 05.458673 21 48 55.612186 0.26 * J2148+0657 06 43 40.90460 * 06 57 38.60421 07 02 32.54349 0.25 J2148+06 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 103488 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 J1801+4404 sess316.K1024nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 13 14 0.917 110.000 J2123+0535 sess316.K1024nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 13 14 1.400 182.893 J2148+0657 sess316.K1024nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 13 14 0.467 63.467 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) J1801+4404 75.3 J2123+0535 102.1 J2148+0657 108.3 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