COVER INFORMATION Station: BADARY (Code Bd ) Experiment: Network Monitoring Experiment Exp. Code: N17L3 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.40 Release 11.4. March 14, 2015 PI: Katharina Immer Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596508 EMAIL: immer@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596508 Observing mode: 512-8-2 Notes: 512 Mbps, 8x8 MHz, RCP & LCP, 2 bit sampling L Band/1.6 GHz COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 18cm NME and ftp fringe-test on 30 Oct 2017 involving 18 antennas. JB1, WB1, EF, MC, ON85, T6, UR, TR, Sv, Zc, Bd, Hh, Ir,[Ar], JODRELL2,CAMBG32M,DARNHALL,KNOCKIN,TABLEY. The NME uses 16x BBC (8 for each Pol.) of 8MHz bandwidth: Data rate of 512 Mbps. The schedule consists of: - long integrations on strong calibrators: J1751+0939, J2115+2933 for ftp-fringe tests; Ftp-fringe tests are scheduled every half hour throughout the experiment: 12:24:00 (scan 2, 2 sec, J1751+0939) 12:54:00 (scan 4, 2 sec, J2115+2933) 13:24:00 (scan 6, 2 sec, J2115+2933) 13:54:00 (scan 8, 2 sec, J2115+2933) 14:24:00 (scan 10, 2 sec, J2115+2933) 14:54:00 (scan 12, 2 sec, J2115+2933) All the best to everyone involved Katharina Skype account: jive.support.scientist Schedule for BADARY (Code Bd ) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mon 30 Oct 2017 Day 303 --- 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: 374.49 374.49 374.49 374.49 390.49 390.49 390.49 390.49 406.49 406.49 406.49 406.49 422.49 422.49 422.49 422.49 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 12 00 00 J1751+0939 21 24 55 29.8 605.4 3.5 34.8 0 0 12 00 00 12 13 00 =1749+096 21 37 57 28.0 608.4 3.8 35.7 780 50 12 00 01 12 15 00 J1751+0939 21 39 58 27.7 608.9 3.8 35.8 114 50 12 15 00 12 28 00 =1749+096 21 53 00 25.8 611.8 4.0 36.6 780 100 12 15 01 12 34 00 J1848+3219 21 59 01 50.7 619.3 3.2 46.0 294 100 12 34 00 12 43 00 =1846+322 22 08 02 49.3 621.4 3.3 46.4 540 135 12 34 01 12 45 00 J1848+3219 22 10 03 49.0 621.8 3.4 46.5 114 135 12 45 00 12 58 00 =1846+322 22 23 05 47.0 624.7 3.6 46.8 780 185 12 45 01 13 00 00 J1848+3219 22 25 05 46.7 625.1 3.6 46.9 114 185 13 00 00 13 13 00 =1846+322 22 38 07 44.7 627.8 3.8 47.0 780 235 13 00 01 13 15 00 J1848+3219 22 40 08 44.3 628.2 3.9 47.1 114 235 13 15 00 13 28 00 =1846+322 22 53 10 42.3 630.8 4.1 47.1 780 285 13 15 01 13 30 00 J1848+3219 22 55 10 42.0 631.1 4.1 47.1 114 285 13 30 00 13 43 00 =1846+322 23 08 12 40.0 633.6 4.3 47.0 780 335 13 30 01 13 45 00 J1848+3219 23 10 12 39.7 634.0 4.4 46.9 114 335 13 45 00 13 58 00 =1846+322 23 23 15 37.7 636.4 4.6 46.7 780 385 13 45 01 14 00 00 J1848+3219 23 25 15 37.4 636.8 4.6 46.7 114 385 14 00 00 14 13 00 =1846+322 23 38 17 35.4 639.1 4.8 46.3 780 435 14 00 01 14 15 00 J1848+3219 23 40 17 35.1 639.5 4.9 46.3 114 435 14 15 00 14 28 00 =1846+322 23 53 20 33.1 641.8 5.1 45.8 780 485 14 15 01 14 30 00 J1848+3219 23 55 20 32.8 642.2 5.1 45.7 114 485 14 30 00 14 43 00 =1846+322 00 08 22 30.8 644.4 5.3 45.2 780 535 14 30 01 14 45 00 J1848+3219 00 10 22 30.5 644.8 5.4 45.1 114 535 14 45 00 15 00 00 =1846+322 00 25 25 28.3 647.4 5.6 44.4 900 592 14 45 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess317.L512nme Matching groups in /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat: kvzr_l passed by Alexey Melnikov, Mar2014 Setup group: 3 Station: BADARY Total bit rate: 512 Format: MARK5B Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 16.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 1260.00 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 = A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 9 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= 374.49 374.49 374.49 374.49 390.49 390.49 390.49 390.49 406.49 406.49 406.49 406.49 422.49 422.49 422.49 422.49 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: 9 10 11 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) 1749+096 17 49 10.387931 * 17 51 32.818574 17 52 21.982296 0.00 * J1751+0939 09 39 42.82591 * 09 39 00.72847 09 39 04.07211 0.00 J1751+09 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 144578 observations. 1846+322 18 46 29.612032 * 18 48 22.088575 18 49 00.939412 0.00 * J1848+3219 32 15 36.66046 * 32 19 02.60386 32 20 38.33774 0.00 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.4/catalogs/sources.gsfc GSFC 2015a astro solution, unpublished 29306 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 J1751+0939 sess317.L512nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 15 0.433 66.300 J1848+3219 sess317.L512nme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 15 2.133 322.150 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) J1751+0939 57.7 J1848+3219 79.2 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