COVER INFORMATION Station: HART (Code Hh ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: N19L1 Schedule Version: 5.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.50 Development version 11.5. Started Apr. 2 PI: Benito Marcote Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596508 EMAIL: marcote@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596508 Observing mode: Notes: 18cm (L-band) NME and ftp fringe test for session 1/2019 (512 Mbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 8 MHz filters) Please send the disk pack by express to JIVE v >= 4 includes Arecibo in 1st half COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 18cm NME and ftp fringe-test on 8 Mar 2019 involving 14 antennas. Jb1, Wb, Ef, Mc, O8, T6, Ur, Tr, Sv, Zc, Bd, Hh, Ir, Sr, Ar, Dw. The NME uses a standard setup with 512 Mbps. The schedule consists of: - long integrations on calibrators J1824+1044, J1850+2825 and J0530+1331 for ftp-fringe tests; Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled every half hour throughout the experiment (UT times): 13:23:00 (scan 2, 2 sec, J1824+1044) 13:53:00 (scan 4, 2 sec, J1824+1044) 14:23:00 (scan 6, 2 sec, J1850+2825) 14:45:00 (scan 8, 2 sec, J0530+1331) 15:15:00 (scan 10, 2 sec, J0530+1331) 15:45:00 (scan 12, 2 sec, J0530+1331) The first three tests will include Arecibo. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Fri 8 Mar 2019 Day 67 --- 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 13 32 00 J0530+1331 02 26 37 30.1 54.4 -3.1 0.0 0 0 13 32 00 13 40 00 =0528+134 02 34 38 31.6 52.9 -3.0 0.0 480 31 13 32 01 13 43 00 J0530+1331 02 37 39 32.1 52.3 -2.9 0.0 159 31 13 43 00 13 47 00 =0528+134 02 41 40 32.8 51.5 -2.8 0.0 240 46 13 43 01 13 52 00 J0530+1331 02 46 40 33.7 50.5 -2.8 0.0 279 46 13 52 00 14 02 00 =0528+134 02 56 42 35.4 48.4 -2.6 0.0 600 85 13 52 01 14 05 00 J0530+1331 02 59 42 35.9 47.7 -2.5 0.0 159 85 14 05 00 14 17 00 =0528+134 03 11 44 37.9 45.0 -2.3 0.0 720 131 14 05 01 14 20 00 J0530+1331 03 14 45 38.3 44.3 -2.3 0.0 159 131 14 20 00 14 32 00 =0528+134 03 26 47 40.2 41.4 -2.1 0.0 720 178 14 20 01 14 35 00 J0530+1331 03 29 47 40.6 40.6 -2.0 0.0 159 178 14 35 00 14 47 00 =0528+134 03 41 49 42.3 37.4 -1.8 0.0 720 224 14 35 01 14 50 00 J0530+1331 03 44 50 42.7 36.6 -1.8 0.0 159 224 14 50 00 15 00 00 =0528+134 03 54 52 44.0 33.8 -1.6 0.0 600 263 14 50 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess119.L512 Matching groups in /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/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: 9 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: 22 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: 22 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) 0528+134 05 28 06.759216 * 05 30 56.416746 05 32 00.663842 0.21 * J0530+1331 13 29 42.28882 * 13 31 55.14948 13 32 35.70768 0.24 J0530+13 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 138236 observations. 1821+107 18 21 41.659100 * 18 24 02.855250 18 24 55.691399 0.02 * J1824+1044 10 42 43.89908 * 10 44 23.77396 10 44 56.01307 0.04 J1824+10 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 1628 observations. 1848+283 18 48 29.069764 * 18 50 27.589822 18 51 11.679757 0.12 * J1850+2825 28 21 38.48517 * 28 25 13.15540 28 26 24.29237 0.18 J1850+28 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 71 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 J0530+1331 sess119.L512 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 17 18 + 1.133 253.796 J1824+1044 sess119.L512 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 0.650 55.783 J1850+2825 sess119.L512 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 17 0.283 35.333 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) J0530+1331 95.3 J1824+1044 73.8 J1850+2825 71.5 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