COVER INFORMATION Station: EFLSBERG (Code Ef ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: FR051 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.50 Development version 11.5. Started Apr. 2 PI: Jay Blanchard Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596508 EMAIL: blanchard@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596508 Observing mode: Notes: 7mm (Q-band) ftp fringe test of new receivers for session 3/2018 (1024 Mbps, 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 7mm Q band test on 7th Nov 2018 involving 6 telescopes: Ef, T6, Ys, Kt, Ky, Ku The test uses a standard setup with 1024 Mbps. The schedule consists of long integrations on strong calibrators for ftp-fringe tests. Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled every 20 minutes throughout the experiment: Scan 1 20:10:00 Scan 3 20:30:00 Scan 5 20:50:00 Scan 7 21:10:00 Scan 9 21:30:00 Scan 11 21:50:00 Please use mattermost for communication: coms.evlbi.org Clear skies! Jay Schedule for EFLSBERG (Code Ef ) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Wed 7 Nov 2018 Day 311 --- Next scan frequencies: 43122.49 43122.49 43122.49 43122.49 43154.49 43154.49 43154.49 43154.49 43186.49 43186.49 43186.49 43186.49 43218.49 43218.49 43218.49 43218.49 Next BBC frequencies: 722.49 722.49 722.49 722.49 754.49 754.49 754.49 754.49 786.49 786.49 786.49 786.49 818.49 818.49 818.49 818.49 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 20 00 00 0059+581 23 35 25 75.0 49.4 -1.5 -112.4 0 0 20 00 00 20 11 00 --- 23 46 27 76.3 47.0 -1.3 -117.1 660 85 20 00 01 20 13 00 0059+581 23 48 27 76.5 46.5 -1.3 -118.1 101 85 20 13 00 20 18 00 --- 23 53 28 77.1 45.1 -1.2 -120.5 300 124 20 13 01 20 20 00 0059+581 23 55 28 77.3 44.5 -1.1 -121.5 100 124 20 20 00 20 31 00 --- 00 06 30 78.5 40.5 -1.0 -127.7 660 209 20 20 01 20 33 00 0059+581 00 08 31 78.7 39.7 -0.9 -128.9 100 209 20 33 00 20 38 00 --- 00 13 31 79.2 37.5 -0.8 -132.2 300 247 20 33 01 20 40 00 0059+581 00 15 32 79.4 396.5 -0.8 W -133.6 -764 247 20 40 00 20 51 00 --- 00 26 34 80.4 390.5 -0.6 W -141.9 0 332 20 40 01 21 00 00 0234+285 00 35 35 58.3 121.3 -2.1 -38.3 -143 332 21 00 00 21 11 00 --- 00 46 37 59.8 125.0 -1.9 -36.5 517 417 21 00 01 21 13 00 DA193 00 48 37 37.1 69.9 -5.1 -51.0 -51 417 21 13 00 21 18 00 --- 00 53 38 37.9 70.6 -5.1 -51.3 249 456 21 13 01 21 20 00 DA193 00 55 38 38.2 70.9 -5.0 -51.5 102 456 21 20 00 21 31 00 --- 01 06 40 39.8 72.6 -4.8 -52.2 660 541 21 20 01 21 33 00 DA193 01 08 40 40.2 72.9 -4.8 -52.3 102 541 21 33 00 21 38 00 --- 01 13 41 40.9 73.7 -4.7 -52.6 300 580 21 33 01 21 40 00 DA193 01 15 42 41.2 74.0 -4.7 -52.7 102 580 21 40 00 21 51 00 --- 01 26 43 42.9 75.7 -4.5 -53.3 660 665 21 40 01 21 53 00 DA193 01 28 44 43.2 76.1 -4.5 -53.4 102 665 21 53 00 22 00 00 --- 01 35 45 44.3 77.2 -4.4 -53.8 420 719 21 53 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess318.Q1024 --- 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: 4 Station: EFLSBERG Total bit rate: 1024 Format: VDIF Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 32.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: DBBC_DDC Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 42400.00 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 C3 A1 C3 A1 C3 A1 C3 A1 C3 A1 C3 A1 C3 A1 C3 The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 1 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = 1MHz LO sum= 43122.49 43122.49 43122.49 43122.49 43154.49 43154.49 43154.49 43154.49 43186.49 43186.49 43186.49 43186.49 43218.49 43218.49 43218.49 43218.49 BBC fr= 722.49 722.49 722.49 722.49 754.49 754.49 754.49 754.49 786.49 786.49 786.49 786.49 818.49 818.49 818.49 818.49 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: 1 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) * 0059+581 00 59 43.470969 * 01 02 45.762377 01 03 56.324598 0.00 J0102+5824 58 08 04.84743 * 58 24 11.13658 58 30 19.07237 0.00 J0102+58 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 399648 observations. * 0234+285 02 34 55.589590 * 02 37 52.405677 02 38 59.665208 0.00 J0237+2848 28 35 11.40773 * 28 48 08.98999 28 52 58.46915 0.00 J0237+28 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 58420 observations. 0552+398 05 52 01.407168 * 05 55 30.805611 05 56 49.689494 0.00 J0555+3948 39 48 21.94581 * 39 48 49.16496 39 48 46.85133 0.00 * DA193 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/sources.gsfc J0555+39 GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 415688 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 0059+581 sess318.Q1024 1 2 3 4 0.717 9.833 0234+285 sess318.Q1024 1 2 3 4 0.267 3.384 DA193 sess318.Q1024 1 2 3 4 0.650 9.627 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) 0059+581 133.5 0234+285 167.2 DA193 133.7 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