VLBI teleconference, Thursday 09 August 2013
03:30 UT - 11:30 Perth, 13:30 AEST, 15:30 New Zealand
Phone:
Vic: | 03 9545 8222 |
NSW: | 02 9490 8022 |
ACT: | 02 6276 6622 |
Qld: | 07 3214 2311 |
WA: | 08 6436 8844 |
SA: | 08 8273 8122 |
NT: | 08 8944 8488 |
Tas: | 03 6232 5188 |
Meeting ID: 4439
Chair: Tasso Tzioumis
Attendance: Cormac Reynolds, Hayley Bignall (Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, Phil Edwards (CASS Marsfield); Jamie Stevens (CASS Narrabri); Shinji Horiuchi (ATDSCC); Jamie McCallum, Brett Reid, Simon Ellingsen (UTas); Oleg Titov (GA); Sergei Gulyaev, Tim Natusch, Stuart Weston (AUT, NZ)
Apologies:
Agenda
- 14-19 August 2013 LBA session
- Block schedule
- Detailed schedules
- Telescope availability/issues
- ATNF
- UTAS & AuScope
- WW
- South Africa
- People availability
- SOC remote observing
- Monitoring
- Disks
- Correlator
- Real-time fringe tests
- Possible NAPA?
- Tests
- NTFN testing
- Xcube testing
- Other testing
- Upcoming RadioAstron observations ?
- Korea VLBI technical meeting 10-12 Oct 2013
- DiFX technical meeting 14-18 Oct, Korea
- e-VLBI developments/demos
- Future plans: LBA wide-banding?
- Xcube tests
- telescope issues
- correlator issues
- e-VLBI
- Organise scientific meeting in Northern Territory in 2014?
- Review of Actions from meeting on 24 June 2013
- AOB
Actions arising
CARRIED FORWARD/UPDATED/CONTINUING
- LBA data archive consolidation and copy at CASS. (CASS, Curtin)
- LBA data archive. Need ATNF disk space (Tasso, Shaun) Continuing
- ATCA phasing. Check performance and implementation (Jamie S, Richard) Updated
- Definitely need >200 mJy calibrators. Stress in documentation. (ATNF)
- Recommend strong calibrators >> 200 Mjy ~every hour (depends on weather) + possible weaker calibrators more often (ATNF)
- Ask PIs to nominate phase-cals and check fluxes BEFORE scheduled observations (Phil, Jasmie S)
- ATCA Tsys via CABB (CASS) Updated
- Investigate implementation by Bob Sault (Tasso)
- Consult with Carrad and Sault about Tsys implementation on the CABB (Tasso)
- Check with WEW and test whether acal scale preserved when mode changed to VLBI (Jamie S)
- Observer training and remote observing (Tasso) Continuing
- Wiki logs (All) Continuing
- Log transfers quickly to FTP area and/or Wiki (ALL) Continuing
- Annual "best" wiki-log competition. To be judged by correlator at annual Ops meeting. (Cormac)
- Schedule more 32 GHz tests with ATCA? (Phil) Continuing
- Pawsey centre access for VLBI and eVLBI (Chris, Cormac) Continuing
- Linear to Circular polarisation conversion. (Chris, Richard, Cormac) Continuing
- Monitoring "check-list" for ATNF telescopes (Chris, Jamie S) Continuing
- Monica implementation at Ceduna (Jamie & Jamie) Done
- Remote access to Ceduna VNC via Hobart? (Tasso, Jamie M.) Done
- VNC within VNC ? (Jamie M, Tasso)
- Remote access to Ww (Stuart, Tasso) Done
- Simon Ellingsen complex schedules. Send frequency changes list to Ettore (Parkes) and Quick (Hart) for development of LO setups (Simon, Chris) Done
- Rationalise Simon's schedules (Cormac, Simon, Chris)
- DASPRO for Parkes needs updating to reflect Mars Rx changes (Chris) Done
- Check-list for ASKAP Rx changes. Especially 100 MHz reference for X-band. (Tasso, Suzy). Continuing
- Include on Wiki documentation (Tasso)
- RTFC needs >0.5 hours for Mk5 and complex (e.g Simon's) setups (Phil) Done
- Eliminate separate rtfc schedules except for special modes (Cormac) Done
- include in main schedules for 1st hour
- Inform PIs of suitable fringe-finders from block-schedule (Cormac, Chris)
- List of 22 GHz calibrators for Hart (Chris)
- Ask Roopesh for calibrator update at 8 and 22 GHz (Chris)
- For ATCA include in Wiki log: ref ant, pad, tied-array. Default ant03 on W104. (Jamie S)
- For Tid, determine which antenna is scheduled in block-schedule and modify setup files (Cormac, Shinji, Phil)
- Xcube developments by August session (Xcube, Tasso, Chris) Updated
NEW ACTION ITEMS
- Check on Mp power-up of systems (Chris) Done
- Schedule 32 GHz tests for vt10s (Chris) Done
- Implement "intents" keyword from Vex schedule into ATNF schedules for auto-phasing (Jamie, Chris) Continuing
- Fix cdisko to record single polarisation, especially at Cd (Jamie S) Done
- Check on datarates and disk availability (Chris, Jamie) Done
- Remote access Ho and Cd via VNC for session. Need ssh tunneling. (UTas) Done
- Monitoring improvements (Jamie) Done
- Arrange tests on Curtin Xcube (Chris, Cormac) Continuing
- Onsource info from ATCA. Fix cgi scripts (Chris) Continuing
- Mk5 schedules and FS version. Tests needed (Jamie M) Done
- Investigate desirability of upgrade NZ connection from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps (All) Continuing
STANDING ACTION ITEMS
- VLBI science meeting in 2014 at Darwin (?) and setup LOC, SOC (Tasso)
Next meeting: 27 August 2013