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GBT Operations & Commissioning Meeting

09 May 2008

GB137 and by video-con from CV-Conf

AGENDA


Upcoming Activities -- Carl

Activities List


Operations


Scheduling Status -- Carl

Last Week
=========

Observations for proposals
   GBT08A-043, GBT08A-054, GBT08A-076, 
   GBT08A-021, GBT08A-033, GBT08A-077, 
   GBT07B-031, GBT07A-066, GBT06A-033, 
   GBT08A-002, GBT08A-014, GBT08A-047, 
   GBT07C-056, GBT08A-048, GBT08A-039, 
   GBT06C-013, GBT07C-005, BW089     , 
   GBT05A-029, BB255     , GBT08A-062, 
   GBT08A-040

Completed proposals
   GBT06A-033, GBT08A-002, GBT08A-047, 
   GBT07C-056, GBT08A-039, GBT06C-013, 
   GBT07C-005, BW089, GBT08A-040

Next Week
=========
Observations scheduled for **
  GBT08A-020 [F  ] Jason Hessels
       Completing the GBT350 Pulsar and Transient Survey 
       of the North Galactic Plane                       
  GBT08A-054 [ P ] Esteban Araya
       Correlated Variability of Astrophysical Masers    
       II: Flares in IRAS18566+0408                      
  GBT08A-021 [  B] Jeff Mangum
       Formaldehyde Densitometry of IR-Bright Galaxies   
  GBT07C-084 [  B] Laura Kasian
       GBT Timing of a Young Highly Relativistic Binary  
       Pulsar                                            
  GBT08A-043 [F  ] Jeremy Darling
       An OH Megamaser Survey at z~1                     
  GBT07A-087 [  B] Paul Demorest
       Detecting nHz Gravitational Radiation using a     
       Pulsar Timing Array                               
  GBT07C-030 [ P ] Joel Bregman
       The Detection of Redshifted Hot Baryons with the  
       NVII Line                                         
  GBT07B-031 [ P ] Steven Majewski
       Proper Motions of the Sagittarius Tidal Stream    
       and the Shape of the Halo                         
  GBT08A-077 [F B] Fernando Camilo
       Studying the magnetar XTE J1810-197               
  GBT08A-011 [F  ] Maura McLaughlin
       Continued Radio Timing Observations of RRAT       
       Sources                                           
  GBT07B-020 [F  ] Ingrid Stairs
       The Pulsar Triple System in M4                    
  GBT07A-066 [ P ] Jim Braatz
       The Megamaser Cosmology Project                   
  GBT08A-014 [F B] Jay Lockman
       On the Trail of Smith's Cloud                     
  GBT07B-034 [F  ] Robert Ferdman
       Timing Binary and Millisecond Pulsars from the    
       Parkes Multibeam Survey                           
  GBT08A-015 [F  ] Mallory Roberts
       A High Frequency Search for Pulsations from       
       LSI+61 303                                        
  GBT07C-014 [ P ] Keivan Stassun
       Angular Momentum and Chemical Evolution of        
       Pre-Stellar Cores in Ophiuchus                    
  GBT07B-037 [ P ] Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
       A Search for High Velocity Masers in the Galactic 
       Center Molecular Ring                             
  GBT08A-017 [ P ] Pieter Buyle
       Gas streams around the supermassive black hole in 
       the Andromeda Galaxy                              
  GBT07B-029 [F B] Michael Kramer
       Timing and General Relativity in the Double       
       Pulsar System                                     
  GBT08A-072 [  B] Helene Courtois
       Bulk motions of filaments in the Local Universe   
  GBT08A-073 [  B] Viswesh Marthi
       A deep search for associated HI 21cm absorption   
       in red quasars                                    
  GBT08A-062 [F  ] Jeremy Darling
       A "Blind'' HI Absorption Pilot Survey of the      
       Local Universe                                    
  GBT07C-060 [  B] Fernando Camilo
       GLAST timing at GBT: six key radio-faint pulsars  
** Scheduled as F-ixed, P-rimary, B-ackup

Contact Information for 05/22/2008 - 06/05/2008
=======================================
Proposal   PI                 Bands Email [NRAO contact]    
---------- ------------------ ----- --------------------
BB240      Geoff Bower        X     gbower@astro.berkeley.edu []
GBT08A-076 Nissim Kanekar     4     nkanekar@nrao.edu [Jules Harnett]
GBT07A-087 Paul Demorest      L     pdemores@nrao.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT08A-077 Fernando Camilo    S     fernando@astro.columbia.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT08A-033 Mike Blanton       L     blanton@nyu.edu [Jules Harnett]
GBT07A-066 Jim Braatz         K     jbraatz@nrao.edu [Jim Braatz]
GBT08B-023 Robert Ferdman     L     ferdman@phas.ubc.ca [Scott Ransom]
GBT08A-068 Ryan Johnson       L     ryan.e.johnson@dartmouth.edu [Jules Harnett]
GBT08A-013 Thushara Pillai    L     tpillai@cfa.harvard.edu [Jules Harnett]
GBT08A-014 Jay Lockman        L     jlockman@nrao.edu [Jay Lockman]
GBT07A-101 Clive Dickinson    B     cdickins@astro.caltech.edu [Brian Mason]
GM064      James Miller-Jones K     jmiller@nrao.edu []
GBT07C-068 Amy Lovell         L     alovell@agnesscott.edu [Toney Minter]
GBT07C-013 Nissim Kanekar     S     nkanekar@nrao.edu [Frank Ghigo]
GBT07C-079 Antonio Crapsi     K     a.crapsi@oan.es [Toney Minter]
GBT07C-014 Keivan Stassun     K     keivan.stassun@vanderbilt.edu [Larry Morgan]
GBT08B-017 Julia Deneva       S     deneva@astro.cornell.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT07B-029 Michael Kramer     L     mkramer@jb.man.ac.uk [Scott Ransom]
GBT05A-029 Paul VandenBout    B     pvandenb@nrao.edu [Ron Maddalena]
GBT08A-082 Min Yun            L     myun@astro.umass.edu [Jules Harnett]
GBT08A-062 Jeremy Darling     L     jdarling@origins.colorado.edu [Jules Harnett]
BB242      Jim Braatz         K     jbraatz@nrao.edu []
GBT07C-060 Fernando Camilo    S     fernando@astro.columbia.edu [Scott Ransom]
GBT08A-041 Jeremy Darling     S     jdarling@origins.colorado.edu [Ron Maddalena]
GBT07A-051 Mike Hollis        3468A jan.m.hollis@nasa.gov [Larry Morgan]

Scheduled hours [backup]
========================
Category/Month-> May       June      July      August    
    Astronomy ~  631 [290] 288       244       231       
  Maintenance ~   52 [034] 167       196       168       
  Test & Comm ~   32 [016]   7         0         0       
  Un-assigned ~   30       259       307       345       

Proposal Checkouts #[hrs]*
=========================
Awaiting checkout - 0[0]
  Active checkout - 0[0]
          On Hold - 0[0]
         Schedule - 114[2038]
        Completed - 537[6517]
* All but completed queue applies to GBT only proposals


Current backlog of Reg & RRS proposals [hours prior to 08A*] = 1030
   [2005:49(5), 2006:187(8), 2007:794(36)]
   Backlog includes 112 hrs of monitoring projects
                    246 hrs of vlbi projects
Total time to discharge [hours] = 4785
   Includes 276 hours++ of monitoring (not Large or Spec) after trimester 08A
            2295 hours of Regular & RRS proposals 
            2130 hours of Large proposals 
            360 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 22 projects in 33 observing sessions, including 2 VLB runs and 4 radar runs. The telescope was also scheduled for 12.5 hrs of maintenance, 1 hr of receiver checkouts, and 1.5 hrs of project tests.

There was absolutely no lost time this week!


GBT Telescope Operations -- Bob

Routine week. Rain hampered maintenance yesterday.


Mechanical Division Operations -- Dennis


Microwave Electronics Operations -- Steve


Digital Electronics Operations -- Randy

Jason and J.D. repaired two LVDT modules Thursday morning which reactivated a total of 32 actuators (16 each).


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 -- Marty


CICADA program -- John


Ka-band Rx / Zpectrometer -- Galen


K-band Focal Plane Array -- Steve


Other Project Notes


Upcoming Meetings


Any other Business

-- RonMaddalena - 08 May 2008

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