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GBT Operations & Commissioning Meeting

08 February 2008

GB137 and by video-con from CV-Conf

AGENDA


Upcoming Activities -- Carl

Activities List


Operations


Scheduling Status -- Carl

Last Week
=========

Observations for proposals
   GBT07C-094, BB240     , GBT07C-040, 
   GBT08A-077, GBT08A-011, GBT07A-087, 
   GBT08A-034, GBT07A-066, GBT08A-014, 
   GBT05B-011, GBT07A-029, BG170     , 
   GBT08A-072, GBT07A-094, GBT07A-040, 
   GBT07A-051

Completed proposals
   GBT07C-094, BG170

Next Week
=========
Observations scheduled for **
  BB240      [ P ] Geoff Bower
       RIPL: Radio Interferometric PLanet Search         
  GBT08A-020 [  B] Jason Hessels
       Completing the GBT350 Pulsar and Transient Survey 
       of the North Galactic Plane                       
  BR125      [F  ] Tim Robishaw
       The New Extragalactic Magnetometer: Zeeman        
       Splitting in OH Megamasers                        
  GBT08A-076 [  B] Nissim Kanekar
       The nature of damped Lyman-alpha systems, as      
       traced by their spin temperatures                 
  GBT08A-054 [ P ] Esteban Araya
       Correlated Variability of Astrophysical Masers    
       II: Flares in IRAS18566+0408                      
  GBT07C-084 [  B] Laura Kasian
       GBT Timing of a Young Highly Relativistic Binary  
       Pulsar                                            
  GBT08A-065 [F  ] Don Campbell
       Surface Properties of Titan                       
  GBT07A-087 [  B] Paul Demorest
       Detecting nHz Gravitational Radiation using a     
       Pulsar Timing Array                               
  GBT08A-066 [ P ] John Bally
       NH3 Survey of Galactic Plane Cloud Cores Selected 
       at  1.1 mm with Bolocam                           
  GBT08A-077 [F B] Fernando Camilo
       Studying the magnetar XTE J1810-197               
  GBT08A-056 [ P ] Simon Dicker
       Observations with MUSTANG on the GBT at 3.3mm     
  GBT08A-034 [F B] Bob Rood
       The Abundance Gradient in the Milky Way           
  GBT07A-066 [FP ] Jim Braatz
       The Megamaser Cosmology Project                   
  GBT08A-057 [  B] Jennifer Donovan
       A Continuing Search for Wet Mergers in a Dry      
       Sample                                            
  GBT07A-034 [F  ] Jim Braatz
       The Megamaser Cosmology Project: A Survey for H2O 
       Masers in SDSS and 2MRS AGNs                      
  GBT08A-003 [  B] Steve Curran
       The Metallicity-21-cm Line Strength Relation in   
       Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers                         
  GBT07B-034 [F B] Robert Ferdman
       Timing Binary and Millisecond Pulsars from the    
       Parkes Multibeam Survey                           
  GBT07A-050 [ P ] Claudia Cyganowski
       Kinematics of Ionized and Molecular Gas           
       Associated with IR Dust Bubbles                   
  GBT08A-073 [  B] Viswesh Marthi
       A deep search for associated HI 21cm absorption   
       in red quasars                                    
  GBT07C-082 [  B] James Aguirre
       Searching for Dark Matter Annihilations in Draco  
  GBT07A-040 [ P ] Larry Weintraub
       Detecting the Origin of Arcminute Scale CMB       
       Anisotropy                                        
  GBT07A-051 [FP ] Mike Hollis
       A GBT Legacy Survey of Prebiotic Molecules Toward 
       SgrB2(N-LMH) and TMC-1                            
  GBT07C-060 [F  ] Fernando Camilo
       GLAST timing at GBT: six key radio-faint pulsars  
** Scheduled as F-ixed, P-rimary, B-ackup

Contact Information for 02/21/2008 - 03/06/2008
=======================================
Proposal   PI                 Bands Email [NRAO contact]    
---------- ------------------ ----- --------------------
GBT08A-086 Philip Nicholson   S     nicholso@astro.cornell.edu [Frank Ghigo]
BB240      Geoff Bower        X     gbower@astro.berkeley.edu []
GBT07C-084 Laura Kasian       LS    kasian@physics.ubc.ca [Scott Ransom]
GBT05A-040 Andrew Baker       B     ajbaker@physics.rutgers.edu [Dana Balser]
GBT08A-032 Lynn Matthews      L     lmatthew@cfa.harvard.edu [Jules Harnett]
GBT08A-065 Don Campbell       S     campbell@astro.cornell.edu [Frank Ghigo]
GBT08A-011 Maura McLaughlin   38    maura.mclaughlin@mail.wvu.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT07A-087 Paul Demorest      8     pdemores@nrao.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT08A-077 Fernando Camilo    S     fernando@astro.columbia.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT07A-066 Jim Braatz         K     jbraatz@nrao.edu [Jim Braatz]
GBT08A-034 Bob Rood           X     rtr@virginia.edu [Dana Balser]
GBT08A-056 Simon Dicker       P     simon.dicker@gmail.com [Brian Mason]
GBT08A-057 Jennifer Donovan   L     jen@astro.columbia.edu [Jules Harnett]
GBT08A-058 Léo Barriault      L     leo.barriault.1@ulaval.ca [Jay Lockman]
GBT08A-014 Jay Lockman        L     jlockman@nrao.edu [Jay Lockman]
GBT07B-034 Robert Ferdman     L     ferdman@phas.ubc.ca [Scott Ransom]
GBT07C-033 Jason Hessels      S     jhessels@science.uva.nl [Scott Ransom]
GBT06C-033 Andy Harris        B     harris@astro.umd.edu [Karen O'Neil]
GBT07C-024 Nami Sakai         K     nami@taurus.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [D.J. Pisano]
GBT07B-025 Scott Ransom       S     sransom@nrao.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT08A-006 Tom Bania          X     bania@bu.edu [Dana Balser]
GBT08A-018 Nami Sakai         K     nami@taurus.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [Larry Morgan]
GBT05C-035 Andrew Baker       B     ajbaker@physics.rutgers.edu [Dana Balser]
GBT07A-029 Dick Crutcher      L     crutcher@uiuc.edu [Toney Minter]
GBT05C-047 Thomas Greve       B     tgreve@submm.caltech.edu [Dana Balser]
GBT07B-029 Michael Kramer     L     mkramer@jb.man.ac.uk [Scott Ransom]
GBT07A-050 Claudia Cyganowski K     ccyganow@astro.wisc.edu [Toney Minter]
GBT07A-040 Larry Weintraub    B     lcw@astro.caltech.edu [Brian Mason]
GBT07C-060 Fernando Camilo    S     fernando@astro.columbia.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT07A-051 Mike Hollis        3468A jan.m.hollis@nasa.gov [Larry Morgan]

Scheduled hours [backup]
========================
Category/Month-> February  March     April     May       
    Astronomy ~  590 [334] 647 [554] 627 [484] 589 [374] 
  Maintenance ~   21 [068]   4 [102]   9 [102]  42 [051] 
  Test & Comm ~   72 [035]  60 [034]  49 [040]  31 [032] 
  Un-assigned ~   17        34        39        82       

Proposal Checkouts #[hrs]*
=========================
Awaiting checkout - 0[0]
  Active checkout - 0[0]
          On Hold - 0[0]
         Schedule - 114[3371]
        Completed - 537[6566]
* All but completed queue applies to GBT only proposals


Current backlog of Reg & RRS proposals [hours prior to 08A*] = 1531
   [2005:88(6), 2006:269(10), 2007:1174(49)]
   Backlog includes 67 hrs of monitoring projects
                    304 hrs of vlbi projects
Total time to discharge [hours] = 5394
   Includes 82 hours++ of monitoring (not Large or Spec) after trimester 08A
            2308 hours of Regular & RRS proposals 
            2734 hours of Large proposals 
            352 hours of VLBI proposals 
* Includes projects that are on hold for trimester 08A
++ Time is counted in other break down as well. 08A


Observing News -- Ron

We supported 15 projects in 28 observing sessions, including 3 VLB runs. The telescope was also scheduled for 8.5 hrs of maintenance and 6 hrs of M&C tests. Lost time was 12 hrs (8.3%) of which almost 8 hrs was due to the weather. Of the 14 operators shifts, 7 were free of problems. The major causes of lost time were:

The Astrid, Archivist, and Antenna problems are probably all related and probably have a common cause. If so, the problem in total cost us 3.3 hrs. Joe will have more details.


Commissioning Plans -- Ron

Zpectrometer was placed on the telescope and turned on in preparation for observing this weekend or next week. No major news concerning Mustang.


GBT Telescope Operations -- Bob


Mechanical Division Operations -- Dennis


Microwave Electronics Operations -- Steve


Digital Electronics Operations -- Randy

Todd reported that the Pyrgeometer located at the Laser Lab was off-line. Jason and J.D. discovered that the corresponding Linux box was locked up and proceeded to fix the problem with a simple re-boot first thing this morming (08-FEB-08).


RFI Group Operations -- Carla


Software Operations -- Amy


Computing and Network Operations -- Chris


Business Services -- Mike


43m Operations -- Glen


Project and Development Work


Dynamic Scheduling -- Karen


MUSTANG -- Brian


PTCS program -- Todd/John


CICADA program -- John


Ka-band Rx / Zpectrometer -- Galen


K-band Focal Plane Array -- Steve


Other Project Notes


Any other Business

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