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319a
APOD tracking test.
- Antennas: Hb Ho Ke Yg
################################################################################### # Schedule summary for session: 319a # ################################################################################### Nominal start: 2016-11-14 10:00:00 Nominal end: 2016-11-14 10:40:05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scan# Source name Type Start [UT] End [UT] Dur [s] Sations 1 0332-403 q 10:00:00 10:00:40 40 Hb Ho Ke Yg 2 2052-474 q 10:03:08 10:03:48 40 Hb Ho Ke Yg 3 0332-403 q 10:06:15 10:06:55 40 Hb Ho Ke Yg 4 PN1A [BAC] s 10:13:26 10:18:50 324 Hb 5 PN1A [BAC] s 10:18:51 10:19:29 38 Hb Ho 6 PN1A [BAC] s 10:19:30 10:20:44 74 Hb Ho Yg 7 PN1A [BAC] s 10:20:55 10:24:16 201 Ke Yg 8 PN1A [BAC] s 10:24:17 10:28:55 278 Ke 9 0332-403 q 10:34:56 10:35:36 40 Hb Ke Yg 10 1921-293 q 10:36:28 10:37:08 40 Hb Ke Yg 11 2052-474 q 10:37:47 10:38:27 40 Hb Ke Yg 12 0332-403 q 10:39:25 10:40:05 40 Hb Ke Yg
Scheduling
- With VieVS Satellite scheduling tool, by A. Hellerschmied
- quasar block scheduled automatically
- APOD scans manually scheduled
- Schedule summary: 319a_sum.txt
- Block of 4 strong quasars was observed before and after APOD scans
- Min scan duration set to 40 sec
- Sub-netting deactivated
- See catalog files for full setup
- 1 sec time gap in VEX files between APOD scans
- Continuous tracking and recording
- Min. 5 min time gap before after sat. scans to load antenna control files
Observation
- Observers: Jamie, Lucia
- Comments: 26m antenna was not available (no tracking). Couldn't observe the signal live on the SA (problems with internet connection)
Tracking
- Satellite tracking based on direct AzEl input files
- Azel values directly taken from tracking files provided by J. Sun
- Station equipment controlled by station dependent VEX files
Data and files
- All control files used for the observations (VEX schedules, schedule summaries, orbit files, AzEl tracking files, etc.) are provided on the VieVS server (
sorts@vievs.hg.tuwien.ac.at) at/home/sorts/apod/2016/- Azel tracking files for all antennas (1 sec interval)
- VEX file (station depended and combined)
- VIE_SCHED files
- used control + catalog files
- predicted WGS84 state vectors (1 sec interval, by J. Sun)
- predicted AzEl posititons (1 sec interval, by J. Sun)
- predicted GCRF state vectors (1 sec interval, by J. Sun)
- Results:
- Plot showing fringe fitting results (residual multiband delays, delay rates, SNR, formal errors):
- VSO observation files containing the multiband total delays calculated by HOPS/fourfit (remove the .txt file name extension to load the VSO files in VieVS):
