COVER INFORMATION Station: URUMQI (Code Ur ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: N22K1 Schedule Version: 3.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.60 Release 11.6; April 2020 PI: Junghwan Oh Address: JIVE Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4 7991 PD Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596537 EMAIL: oh@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596537 Observing mode: Notes: 1.3 cm (K-band) ftp fringe test for session 3/2022 (4096 Mbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 8 x 64 MHz filters) v.4: with ON6_DBBC/Od for parallel DBBC3 testing Please DO NOT use the phase cal signal. COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 1.3 cm K-band fringe test on 8th November 2022 involving 14 evn telescopes + eMERLIN: Jb2 Ef Mc Nt On60 T6 Ur Tr Mh Ys Hh Kt Ky Ku Cm Da Kn Pi The FTP-NME uses a standard setup at 4096 Mbps, except: Ur (2048) Cm Da Kn Pi (512) KVN can get 4Gbps via new OCTAD backend with 64MHz filters The schedule consists of long integrations on strong calibrators: Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled as follows : 11:10:00 3C345 (scan 02, 2 sec) 11:40:00 3C345 (scan 04, 4 sec) 12:10:00 3C345 (scan 06, 2 sec) 12:40:00 J2015+3710 (scan 08, 2 sec) 13:10:00 J2015+3710 (scan 10, 4 sec) 13:40:00 J2015+3710 (scan 12, 2 sec) Junghwan Oh Mattermost: coms.evlbi.org 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Tue 8 Nov 2022 Day 312 --- Next scan frequencies: 22216.00 22216.00 22216.00 22216.00 22280.00 22280.00 22280.00 22280.00 22344.00 22344.00 22344.00 22344.00 22408.00 22408.00 22408.00 22408.00 Next BBC frequencies: 224.00 224.00 224.00 224.00 288.00 288.00 288.00 288.00 352.00 352.00 352.00 352.00 416.00 416.00 416.00 416.00 Next scan bandwidths: 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 11 00 00 3C345 19 59 11 53.8 -78.6 3.3 67.8 0 0 11 00 00 11 02 00 --- 20 01 11 53.5 -78.4 3.3 67.6 120 31 11 00 01 11 05 00 3C345 20 04 12 52.9 -78.0 3.3 67.5 178 31 11 05 00 11 12 00 --- 20 11 13 51.7 -77.2 3.5 67.0 420 138 11 05 01 11 17 00 3C345 20 16 14 50.8 -76.6 3.5 66.7 298 138 11 17 00 11 27 00 --- 20 26 16 49.0 -75.4 3.7 66.0 600 292 11 17 01 11 32 00 3C345 20 31 16 48.1 -74.8 3.8 65.6 298 292 11 32 00 11 42 00 --- 20 41 18 46.4 -73.6 4.0 64.9 600 446 11 32 01 11 47 00 3C345 20 46 19 45.5 -73.0 4.0 64.5 298 446 11 47 00 11 57 00 --- 20 56 20 43.8 -71.8 4.2 63.8 600 600 11 47 01 12 02 00 J2015+3710 21 01 21 79.4 237.8 0.8 50.5 -14 600 12 02 00 12 12 00 =2013+370 21 11 23 77.8 244.0 0.9 55.0 586 754 12 02 01 12 17 00 J2015+3710 21 16 24 77.0 246.5 1.0 56.8 297 754 12 17 00 12 27 00 =2013+370 21 26 25 75.3 250.9 1.2 59.5 600 908 12 17 01 12 32 00 J2015+3710 21 31 26 74.4 252.8 1.3 60.6 298 908 12 32 00 12 42 00 =2013+370 21 41 28 72.7 256.2 1.4 62.3 600 1062 12 32 01 12 47 00 J2015+3710 21 46 29 71.8 257.7 1.5 63.0 298 1062 12 47 00 12 57 00 =2013+370 21 56 30 70.0 260.4 1.7 64.0 600 1215 12 47 01 13 02 00 J2015+3710 22 01 31 69.1 261.7 1.8 64.4 298 1215 13 02 00 13 12 00 =2013+370 22 11 33 67.3 264.0 1.9 65.1 600 1369 13 02 01 13 17 00 J2015+3710 22 16 34 66.4 265.0 2.0 65.3 298 1369 13 17 00 13 27 00 =2013+370 22 26 35 64.6 267.0 2.2 65.6 600 1523 13 17 01 13 32 00 J2015+3710 22 31 36 63.7 268.0 2.3 65.7 298 1523 13 32 00 13 42 00 =2013+370 22 41 38 61.9 269.8 2.4 65.8 600 1677 13 32 01 13 47 00 J2015+3710 22 46 39 61.0 270.6 2.5 65.7 298 1677 13 47 00 13 57 00 =2013+370 22 56 40 59.1 272.3 2.7 65.7 600 1831 13 47 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess322.K4096od --- 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: 15 Station: URUMQI Total bit rate: 2048 Format: MARK5B Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 64.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: DBBC_DDC Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 21992.00 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 = A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 6 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = off LO sum= 22216.00 22216.00 22216.00 22216.00 22280.00 22280.00 22280.00 22280.00 22344.00 22344.00 22344.00 22344.00 22408.00 22408.00 22408.00 22408.00 BBC fr= 224.00 224.00 224.00 224.00 288.00 288.00 288.00 288.00 352.00 352.00 352.00 352.00 416.00 416.00 416.00 416.00 Bandwd= 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 Matching frequency sets: 6 Track assignments are: track1= 18, 26, 2, 10, 20, 28, 4, 12, 22, 30, 6, 14, 24, 32, 8, 16 barrel=roll_off POSITIONS OF SOURCES USED IN RECORDING SCANS Source Source position (RA/Dec) Error (B1950) (J2000) (Date) (mas) * 3C345 16 41 17.606229 * 16 42 58.809967 16 43 43.046398 0.79 J1642+3948 39 54 10.81492 * 39 48 36.99399 39 46 11.08891 0.59 1641+399 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.6/catalogs/sources.gsfc J1642+39 GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 53724 observations. 2013+370 20 13 37.014517 * 20 15 28.729803 20 16 18.554433 0.09 * J2015+3710 37 01 44.45878 * 37 10 59.51466 37 15 23.05184 0.12 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.6/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 131 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 3C345 sess322.K4096od 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 15 + 0.650 111.150 J2015+3710 sess322.K4096od 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 15 + 1.333 227.931 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) 3C345 61.9 J2015+3710 92.7 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