COVER INFORMATION Station: BADARY (Code Bd ) Experiment: Probing blazar dynamics in an extreme case of jet realignment Exp. Code: RSB02A Schedule Version: 2.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.50 Development version 11.5. Started Apr. 2 PI: Gabriele Bruni Address: INAF-IAPS via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100 00133 - Rome Italy Phone: +39 06 4548 8456 EMAIL: gabriele.bruni@inaf.it Fax: --- Phone during observation: +39 06 4548 8456 Observing mode: Phase-referencing of a source at 1.3cm Notes: Schedule for BADARY (Code Bd ) Page 2 Probing blazar dynamics in an extreme case of jet realignment 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Sat 19 Oct 2019 Day 292 --- Next scan frequencies: 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 Next BBC frequencies: 219.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 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 20 30 00 PBC2333 05 11 02 -14.8 610.5 5.6 D 39.5 0 0 20 30 00 20 35 00 --- 05 16 03 -15.5 611.4 5.7 D 39.8 0 77 20 30 01 20 35 00 PBC2333 05 16 03 -15.5 611.4 5.7 D 39.8 -5 77 No stop 20 40 00 --- 05 21 04 -16.3 612.3 5.8 D 40.1 0 154 20 35 01 20 40 30 PBC2333 05 21 34 -16.4 612.4 5.8 D 40.1 24 154 20 40 30 20 45 30 --- 05 26 35 -17.1 613.3 5.9 D 40.3 0 231 20 40 31 21 47 30 PBC2333 06 28 45 -26.5 624.8 6.9 D 42.3 3712 231 21 47 30 21 54 04 --- 06 35 20 -27.5 626.1 7.0 D 42.4 0 332 21 47 31 21 57 00 3C454.3 06 38 17 -2.2 660.1 7.7 D 33.9 118 332 21 57 00 22 00 00 --- 06 41 18 -2.6 660.8 7.8 D 33.6 0 378 21 57 01 SETUP FILE INFORMATION: NOTE: If DOPPLER, FREQ, or BW were used, see the individual scans for the final BBC settings. ======== Setup file: sess319.K2048 Matching groups in /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/freq.dat: kvzr_k Added by Des Small, 24 February 2012 Setup group: 2 Station: BADARY Total bit rate: 2048 Format: MARK5B Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 64.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 21920.00 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: 8 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = off LO sum= 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22139.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22203.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22267.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 22331.49 BBC fr= 219.49 219.49 219.49 219.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 283.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 347.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 411.49 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: 8 9 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) * PBC2333 23 31 17.940448 * 23 33 55.237800 23 34 57.364088 0.00 -24 00 15.79862 *-23 43 40.65802 -23 37 11.16537 0.00 From catalog imbedded in main SCHED input file. * 3C454.3 22 51 29.519739 * 22 53 57.747939 22 54 56.351593 0.65 J2253+1608 15 52 54.34808 * 16 08 53.56091 16 15 18.54530 0.73 2251+158 /home/guest/rmc/SCHED/sched11.5/catalogs/sources.gsfc J2253+16 GSFC 2016a X/S astro solution, 41272 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 PBC2333 sess319.K2048 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1.359 47.743 3C454.3 sess319.K2048 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0.050 1.800 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) PBC2333 134.9 3C454.3 140.1 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