GBT Operations & Commissioning Meeting
AGENDA
Activities List
Last Week
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Observations for proposals
GBT07C-072, BB240 , GBT05A-040,
GBT07A-087, GBT07A-066, GBT07C-020,
GBT07A-089, GBT07A-024, GBT05B-011,
GBT06C-033, GBT07C-067, GBT07C-057,
GBT05C-035, GBT07C-005, GBT07B-029,
GBT05C-028, GBT07A-040, GBT07C-060,
GBT07A-051
Completed proposals
GBT07A-024
Next Week
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Observations scheduled for **
BB240 [ P ] Geoff Bower
RIPL: Radio Interferometric PLanet Search
GBT07C-072 [F ] Marcel Agueros
Detecting Pulsar Companions to Very Low-Mass
White Dwarfs
GBT07C-020 [ B] Fernando Camilo
Studying the magnetar XTE J1810-197
GBT05B-030 [ P ] Fabian Walter
The Molecular Gas Content in z~6 Quasars: Probing
the End of Cosmic Reionization
GBT07A-034 [ P ] Jim Braatz
The Megamaser Cosmology Project: A Survey for H2O
Masers in SDSS and 2MRS AGNs
BG168 [F ] Elena Gallo
Resolving the radio core of quiescent black hole
Xray binaries
GBT07C-044 [F B] Maura McLaughlin
Continued Radio Timing Observations of RRAT
Sources
GBT07C-033 [ B] Jason Hessels
Follow-up Studies of Recent GBT Pulsar Discoveries
GBT07C-045 [ B] Shea Brown
Probing Magnetic Fields on the Largest Scales
GBT07C-067 [F B] Helene Courtois
Bulk Motions of Filaments in the Local Universe
GBT07B-003 [ B] Neeraj Gupta
Search for HI 21cm absorption in a complete
sample of DLAs at z>2
GBT07C-057 [FP ] Jeremy Darling
A Critical Density for OH Megamasers?
Formaldehyde Holds the Key
GBT06A-015 [ P ] Sandrine Bottinelli
The hot corinos of solar-type protostars
GBT05A-029 [ P ] Paul VandenBout
Search for Cold Molecular Gas at High Redshift
BG170 [F ] Gabriele Giovannini
Jet and CounterJet emission in NGC 315
GBT07C-080 [ B] Vlad Kondratiev
A Pulsar Census of the Local Group
GBT07C-091 [F B] Scott Ransom
A Rare Mass Measurement of an Eccentric Binary
Millisecond Pulsar
BB242 [ P ] Jim Braatz
The Megamaser Cosmology Project
GBT03C-028 [ P ] Fabian Walter
The Molecular Gas Content in z>6 Quasars: Probing
the End of Cosmic Reionization
GBT07A-094 [ B] Scott Ransom
Continued Timing of the 33 Millisecond and Binary
Pulsars in Terzan 5
GBT07A-051 [ P ] Mike Hollis
A GBT Legacy Survey of Prebiotic Molecules Toward
SgrB2(N-LMH) and TMC-1
** Scheduled as F-ixed, P-rimary, B-ackup
Contact Information for 12/13/2007 - 12/27/2007
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Proposal PI Bands Email [NRAO contact]
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BB240 Geoff Bower X gbower@astro.berkeley.edu []
GBT07C-073 Joeri van Leeuwen 3 joeri@astro.berkeley.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT07C-084 Laura Kasian LS kasian@physics.ubc.ca [Scott Ransom]
GBT04A-040 Steve Myers XUB smyers@nrao.edu []
GBT07A-066 Jim Braatz K jbraatz@nrao.edu [Jim Braatz]
GBT07C-020 Fernando Camilo XCS fernando@astro.columbia.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT05B-030 Fabian Walter B walter@mpia.de [Dana Balser]
GBT07A-089 Fernando Camilo 8 fernando@astro.columbia.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT07A-034 Jim Braatz K jbraatz@nrao.edu [Jim Braatz]
GBT07C-033 Jason Hessels 8 jhessels@science.uva.nl [Scott Ransom]
GBT07C-045 Shea Brown L brown@physics.umn.edu [Toney Minter]
GBT07C-067 Helene Courtois L h.courtois@ipnl.in2p3.fr [Rick Fisher]
GBT07C-068 Amy Lovell L alovell@agnesscott.edu [Toney Minter]
GBT07B-003 Neeraj Gupta 3 Neeraj.Gupta@atnf.csiro.au [D.J. Pisano]
GBT06A-015 Sandrine Bottinell B sandrine@ifa.hawaii.edu [Dana Balser]
GBT07C-016 Nissim Kanekar K nkanekar@nrao.edu [Jim Braatz]
GBT07A-029 Dick Crutcher L crutcher@uiuc.edu [Toney Minter]
GBT07B-029 Michael Kramer L mkramer@jb.man.ac.uk [Scott Ransom]
GBT05A-029 Paul VandenBout B pvandenb@nrao.edu []
GBT07C-008 Bruce Campbell 4 campbellb@si.edu [Frank Ghigo]
GBT07C-080 Vlad Kondratiev 8 vlad.kondratiev@mail.wvu.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT06C-008 Raghunathan Sriana 4 anand@iucaa.ernet.in [Toney Minter]
GBT03C-028 Fabian Walter B walter@mpia.de [Dana Balser]
GBT07C-060 Fernando Camilo S fernando@astro.columbia.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT07A-040 Larry Weintraub B lcw@astro.caltech.edu [Brian Mason]
GBT07A-051 Mike Hollis LSCXU jan.m.hollis@nasa.gov [Larry Morgan]
GBT07C-082 James Aguirre 3 jaguirre@nrao.edu [Brian Mason]
Scheduled hours [backup]
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Category/Month-> November December January
Astronomy ~ 573 569 [499] 574 [420]
Maintenance ~ 71 37 [068] 8 [119]
Test & Comm ~ 40 90 [001] 107 [016]
Shutdown ~ 36 36 0
Un-assigned ~ 0 12 55
Proposal Checkouts #[hrs]*
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Awaiting checkout - 0[0]
Active checkout - 0[0]
On Hold - 0[0]
Schedule - 115[3403]
Completed - 491[6281]
* All but completed queue applies to GBT only proposals
Current backlog of Reg & RRS proposals [hours prior to 07C*] = 1096
[2005:230(11), 2006:295(15), 2007:571(23)]
Backlog includes 155 hrs of monitoring projects
189 hrs of vlbi projects
Total time to discharge [hours] = 5148
Includes 224 hours++ of monitoring (not Large or Spec) after trimester 07C
1778 hours of Regular & RRS proposals
3061 hours of Large proposals
310 hours of VLBI proposals
* Includes projects that are on hold for trimester 07C
++ Time is counted in other break down as well. 07C
GBT Telescope Operations -- Bob
Quiet week. Only significant operation was removal of the 20m's receiver.
* See http://wiki.gb.nrao.edu/bin/view/Mechanical/WebHome for shop work schedule - updated 11/15
- Ku band cooling and will be installed next week
- C band will be removed next week.
- Mustang will arrive next week.
- The new wind direction sensor has been installed at Weather 2 and is now in service.
- Installation of new accelerometer set began Monday - expect to complete installation today (30-NOV-07).
- Tipper has been removed and placed in basement pending a decision on its final destiny.
RFI Group Operations -- Carla
- Operational Support:
- BOS User Support
- Corrected error in format of default pointing catalog
- Resurrected Archivist.
- C8 Plan of Record - PlanOfRecordC82007
- MIT/LL Feed work will be delayed until early January 2008, normal ops until then.
- The MIT/LL group is looking into a replacement disk drive system, that should be more reliable.
- Worked with Eric Phelps on 43m real-time pointing tests on Monday.
- Found a 0.07 second offset in commanded vs actual pointing. Fixed this by extrapolating 0.07 seconds into the future for commands.
- Mostly normal spacecraft tracking. 43m ops was good, but there were some computer problems in the trailer on Tuesday.
- Accomplishments:
- Working on scratch pad for on the scheduling web page and time accounting.
- Working on brochure to hand out at AAS meeting, as well as at upcoming talks
- Testing scheduling web page, version 0
* Upcoming events (next 2 weeks)
- Eric Sessoms will be here next week for work on including windowed and fixed sessions. Begin testing new interface
- GB DSS update Dec 13 9-noon
- CV DSS talk possible moved to Dec 14
MUSTANG -- Brian
PROGRESS:
- Receiver is cold at UPenn with the new 20 GHz BP filter. Test data so far look good though it needs further analysis.
- progress on YGOR manager continues
- BSM has made a number of improvements to the IDL commissioning analysis pipeline (refactor code; implement new scan strategy simulations)
- 2nd PTC arrived in GB. Will be used to cold-trap C-band/mustang lines on GBT next week with UPenn's test dewar
UPCOMING:
- Simon Dicker, and the receiver, arrive on Monday for tests that week, and
- installation the week of the 10th,
- observing Fri night Dec 14th.
- There are still a few things we need to get done from the shop (new helium feedthrough pipes that better allow for the 300 K mitigation) before the 10th
- upgrade spider (on gbt DAQ computer) to RH2.6
- new PM (Marty Bloss) monday
PTCS program -- John
- Servo improvements
- Data collected for acceleration feedforward development
- Test time tonight to be used for more feedforward and compensator tests
- Pointing
- Kim's 3 Matlab scripts for generating a pointing model have been tested independently at GB. An end-to-end test may be possible soon.
- Newsletter article written on PFM5
- A few hours of Ka/CCB offset pointing and half power tracks were obtained Wed night
- Organization, processing and documentation of past gain curves has begun
- Holography
- Matlab scripts have been written to read in the 2004 traditional holography data from the original FITS files. Two dimensional images of correlator outputs (RR, TT, RT and arctan(RT/RQ)) are being produced and examined.
- Elevation scans at Ka of the lunar limb tangent point were obtained to further test the surface model
- Instrumentation
- Wind direction sensor 2 has been replaced successfully
- New accelerometers installed
- Tipper removed from service
CICADA program -- John
- GUPPi
- Scott, Ron, and Paul are working on the data acquisition and control software
- John is working on the hardware interface software
- Randy and Jason are prototyping the tricky bits of the application gateware.
- John installed and cabled up the 10 GbE? cards into the GPU cluster for Scott and Paul to experiment with.
- WVU is working on the data output packing module for the device.
- Other CICADA work
- Attended AstroGPU? conference in Princeton. Conference was an in-depth program on using GPU's for acceleration of scientific computing.
- Attended IEEE/ACM Supercomputing '07 conference in Reno, NV. Got many good ideas to go along with our FPGA's, namely:
- Storage and Compute clusters
- data interconnect fabrics
- FPGA accelerators
- GPU programming tools
- parallel programming systems
30 Nov 2007
- Accomplishments since last report:
- Zpectrometer Tone Calibrations performed.
- Upcoming activities:
- Zpectrometer Tone Calibration and absorptive load testing Friday PM.
- Removal of Zpectrometer from GBT next week.
- Risks
- Comments:
- Load testing to determine telescope optics contributions to offsets and gain variations.
- Workshop successfull in clearifing outstanding science issues and how they relate to technical specifications.
- Pipline workshop gave a good account of existing piplines and how we may want to proceed for this project.
- The 45 degree twist mandrels are complete and will be sent with phase shifters for electroforming.
-- RichardPrestage - 29 Nov 2007
Revision r1.13 - 30 Nov 2007 - 14:58 GMT - DennisEgan
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