SUMMARY FILE FOR PROJECT: FT040 COVER INFORMATION: Experiment: FT040 Exp. Code: FT040 Start Day 290 is Fri 16 Oct 2020 MJD 59138 Schedule Version: 1.00 Processed by SCHED version: 11.60 Release 11.6; Feburary 2020 PI: Benito Marcote Address: JIVE Postbus 2 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands Phone: +31-521-596507 EMAIL: marcote@jive.eu Fax: Phone during observation: +31-521-596507 Observing mode: Notes: 5cm Westerbork test on a maser source within Session 3 2020 (256 Mbps, L+R, 2-bit sampling, 4 MHz filters; COVER LETTER: This is the schedule for the 5cm NME and ftp fringe-test on 2020, October 15 involving antennas: Jb2, Wb, Ef, Mc, Nt, On85, T6, Tr, Ys, Ir, Sr, Km, Cm, Da, De, Kn, Pi. The NME uses a standard setup with 256 Mbps (and 2Gbps mode at the end). The schedule consists of long integrations on calibrators 3C345, J2031+1219, and J2139+1423 for ftp-fringe tests. The following ftp-fringe tests are scheduled throughout the experiment (UT times): 256 Mbps 12:18:00 (scan 2, 2 sec, 3C345) 12:38:00 (scan 4, 2 sec, 3C345) 12:58:00 (scan 6, 2 sec, 3C345) 13:18:00 (scan 8, 2 sec, J2031+1219) 13:38:00 (scan 10, 2 sec, J2031+1219) 13:58:00 (scan 12, 2 sec, J2031+1219) 2Gbps 14:18:00 (scan 14, 2 sec, J2139+1423) 14:38:00 (scan 16, 2 sec, J2139+1423) 14:58:00 (scan 18, 2 sec, J2139+1423) Good luck with the session! Olga Bayandina Mattermost: coms.evlbi.org CORRELATION REQUESTS (Defaults in parentheses): Correlator (Required if recording): JIVE Correlator average time (2 sec): 1.000 sec. Alternate average time (for spacecraft). 0.000 sec. Output spectral channels per baseband (16): 16 Correlator FFT size (128): 128 Number of antennas to be correlated: 17 Polarization (ON): ON Correlator weighting function (UNIFORM): UNIFORM Distribution tape (DAT): FTP Distribution format (FITS): FITS Source positions from: STANDARD Shipping address for correlator output: Olga Bayandina Correlator Notes: This band is OK DERIVED INFORMATION FOR CORRELATION: All scans Elapsed time for project (hours): 0.10 Total time in scheduled scans (hours): 0.07 Total time in recording scans (hours): 0.07 Total baseline hours (recording scans): 0.07 Projected max correlator output rate (kB/s): 4.1 Projected correlator output data size (MB): 1.0 NOTES: Above numbers assume the same correlator parameters are used for all data. The 'baseline hours' include the autocorrelations (for data size calculations). The correlator output data rate is for real-time processing. Above numbers assume the same correlator parameters are used for all data. The recordings for a scan are assumed to start at the scan START minus PRESTART. Some stations (VLA, VLBA/MARK5C) wait for good data so the estimates may be high. STATIONS USED IN SCHEDULE: Station Code Latitude Longitude Elevation X Y Z Axis Offset WSTRBORK Wb 52.91529 -6.59177 71. 3828767.265 442446.174 5064921.570 4.950 Plate tectonic motion adjustments for MJD 59138 Station Code Station motions (m/yr) Adjusted positions X Y Z MJD0 X Y Z WSTRBORK Wb -0.0135 0.0170 0.0087 50449 3828766.943 442446.579 5064921.778 RECORDING SYSTEM AND CALIBRATION INFORMATION: List of scan-dependent controls seen for recording timing. MINPAUSE: 10. PRESTART: 0. DISKS - Stations potentially recording on disks. Station Drive type DAR NBBC Tsys WSTRBORK MARK5C DBBC 16 GAP EXPERIMENT SUMMARY: Number of input scans: 2 Number of scans scheduled: 2 Number of stations: 1 Number of sources input: 1 Number of setup files used: 2 STATION SCAN SUMMARIES: Station Control Scans Scan Record Record Gbytes Hours Hours Scans WSTRBORK VEX 2 0.07 0.07 2 8. Notes on the station scan summaries: "Record Scans" are periods of recording with no gap. The Mark5A disk systems have a limit of 1024 such scans. There are often multiple projects on a disk pack. If using MARK5A, try to keep above about 6 GB per record scan by using MINPAUSE and PRESTART to prevent short gaps. However, also try to prevent record scans of more than an hour to minimize risk to data from playback problems. MARK5C will have one observe scan per record scan and there is no limit to the number. SETUP FILES: ======== Setup file: sess320.M256 Matching groups in /home/marcote/.pysched/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat: wb5cm_g Generated from sess119M1_16MHz.setini, sess119M1_4MHz.setini, sess119M1nme.seti* Setup group: 1 Station: WSTRBORK Total bit rate: 256 Format: VDIF Bits per sample: 2 Sample rate: 8.000 Number of channels: 16 DBE type: DBBC_DDC Speedup factor: 1.00 Disk used to record data. 1st LO= 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 6264.00 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 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 A1 B1 The following frequency sets based on these setups were used. Frequency Set: 1 Setup file default. Used with PCAL = off LO sum= 6655.49 6655.49 6655.49 6655.49 6663.49 6663.49 6663.49 6663.49 6671.49 6671.49 6671.49 6671.49 6679.49 6679.49 6679.49 6679.49 BBC fr= 391.49 391.49 391.49 391.49 399.49 399.49 399.49 399.49 407.49 407.49 407.49 407.49 415.49 415.49 415.49 415.49 Bandwd= 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 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 SCAN SUMMARY for experiment FT040 FT040 Flags: D=>Down, H=>Below Horizon, R=>Rises, S=>Sets, W=>Slew too long, t=>Tape Chg. Top item is: Start elevation. Bottom item is: Seconds antenna is on source before scan start. TYPE top: -=> normal scan, P=>Pointing or Ta; bottom: -=>recording, N=>not recording. Day 290 is Fri 16 Oct 2020 MJD 59138 SCAN DAY START UT SOURCE TYPE STATIONS t => tape change STOP UT Wb 1 290 23:30:00 G133 - 79 290 23:32:00 sess320.M256 - 0 2 290 23:34:00 G133 - 79 290 23:36:00 - - 109 SCAN SUMMARY for experiment FT040 FT040 Flags: D=>Down, H=>Below Horizon, R=>Rises, S=>Sets, W=>Slew too long, t=>Tape Chg. Top item is: Start azimuth. Bottom item is: End azimuth. TYPE top: -=> normal scan, P=>Pointing or Ta; bottom: -=>recording, N=>not recording. Day 290 is Fri 16 Oct 2020 MJD 59138 SCAN DAY START UT SOURCE TYPE STATIONS t => tape change STOP UT Wb 1 290 23:30:00 G133 - 31 290 23:32:00 sess320.M256 - 30 2 290 23:34:00 G133 - 29 290 23:36:00 - - 28 SCAN SUMMARY for experiment FT040 FT040 Top item is: Slew time in seconds from previous source. Bottom item is: Nothing requested with SUMITEM. TYPE top: -=> normal scan, P=>Pointing or Ta; bottom: -=>recording, N=>not recording. Day 290 is Fri 16 Oct 2020 MJD 59138 SCAN DAY START UT SOURCE TYPE STATIONS t => tape change STOP UT Wb 1 290 23:30:00 G133 - 0 290 23:32:00 sess320.M256 - 2 290 23:34:00 G133 - 11 290 23:36:00 - - TIME RANGE OF RECORDINGS and TOTAL BYTES: Obs. start time. Obs. end time. Total Station Day Time Day Time GBytes (UT) (UT) WSTRBORK 290 23:30:00 290 23:36:00 7.7 POSITIONS OF SOURCES USED IN RECORDING SCANS Catalog positions marked with *. Precession of date coordinates is based on stop time of first scan. Names used in schedule marked with *. Observation date used in B1950/J2000 coordinate conversion (PRECDATE): 1979.900 No adjustments are made for rates (DRA, DDEC). Source Source position (RA/Dec) Error (B1950) (J2000) (Date) (mas) * G133 02 23 17.304961 * 02 27 04.687920 02 28 40.770459 0.00 61 38 58.10219 * 61 52 25.53600 61 57 54.13650 0.00 From catalog imbedded in main SCHED input file. 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 G133 sess320.M256 1 0.067 0.000 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) G133 126.3 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 CATALOGS, FILES, and CODE VERSIONS Catalogs: Station: ../sta.sess320.116m_RDBE.dat Version: 2018Sep07-20:14:11 Location: ../loc.sess320.116.dat Version: 2020Jan12 Frequency: /home/marcote/.pysched/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat Version: 2020Jul06-17:24:23 Source: /home/marcote/.pysched/catalogs/sources.gsfc Version: --- Source2: NONE Version: --- Other external files: Ephemeris: NONE PEAKFILE: /home/marcote/.pysched/catalogs/peak.cmd MSGFILE: /home/marcote/.pysched/catalogs/messages.txt Code versions: Release version: 11.60 Release 11.6; Feburary 2020 Version of VEX standard: 1.50 Version of VEX code: 0.87 Version of plot code: 1.06 Version of ephemeris code: 1.01 Version of PGPLOT: 0.00 This schedule produced on: Fri Oct 16 18:18:52 2020