Session Notes for AUST13 campaign: a1301
Prepared by Jing Sun, Vienna University of Technology
Prepared with VIE_SCHED
Refer to http://auscope.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=operations:start
for general information.

This set of notes consists of two parts:
1) Individual day notes
2) General AUST13 notes (repeated for all AUST13 days)


*** Individual day notes ***
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----- Parameter listing --------------------------------------
 Experiment: AUST1301                    Description AUST13 DAY 01
 Scheduler:  VIEN                        Correlator: CRTN      
 Start:      2013-332-21:00:00           End:        2013-333-18:51:00
 Current yyyyddd:    2013332 (2013.91)  ( 56624 MJD, Thu 28NOV.)
 Greenwich sidereal time:   1:31:41.00 (21: 0: 0 UT)
 Sun's RA and DEC:   16h19.8m    -21d26.5
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First observations
Observation listing from file ./a1301.skd  for experiment AUST1301   
Source      Start      DURATIONS                                           
name     yyddd-hhmmss   Ht  Hb  Ke  Ww  Yg 
0528+134 13332-210020   20      30      30|
1606+106 13332-210038       76      76    |
......
End of listing.
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Last observations
Observation listing from file ./a1301.skd  for experiment AUST1301  
Source      Start      DURATIONS                                           
name     yyddd-hhmmss   Ht  Hb  Ke  Ww  Yg 
......
0607-157 13333-185056   20  20  20  20  20|
End of listing.
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   SKED Summary from file ./a1301.skd  for experiment AUST1301   

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)

 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =     4.4
 Min =      1  Max =     21 (Baseline Ht-Hb on 0454-810 )  RMS =   5.9

 Total time:    1311.0 minutes (  21.8 hours)

 Key:     Ht=HART15M    Hb=HOBART12   Ke=KATH12M    Ww=WARK12M    Yg=YARRA12M   
                   Ht   Hb   Ke   Ww   Yg   Avg
 % obs. time:      23   65   64   61   69   56
 % cal. time:       7    8    8    7    8    8
 % slew time:      17   15   15   14   16   15
 % idle time:      52   13   12   17    6   20
 total # scans:   338  396  374  346  416  374
 # scans/hour :    16   19   18   16   20   18
 Avg scan (sec):   55  128  135  138  130  117
 Total GBytes:   2304 6347 6304 5963 6786 5541

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
  |  Ht   Hb   Ke   Ww   Yg   StnTotal
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Ht|      232  240  179  313    2122
Hb|           320  317  313    2571
Ke|                278  331    2561
Ww|                     251    2261
Yg|                            2603

 Number of  2-station scans: 142
 Number of  3-station scans: 98
 Number of  4-station scans: 123
 Number of  5-station scans: 160

 Total # of scans, observations:   523     2774
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*** General AUST13 notes ***
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                       AUST13 Session Notes
                          November, 2013


First session start: November 28, 2013  21:00:00 UT
End of last session: December 16, 2013  16:00:00 UT

Number of sessions: 15

Participating stations:  
  HART15M, HOBART12, KATH12M, WARK12M, YARRA12M
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1.	Sources
The pre-selection source list is created by Stas and extended by 
OlegĄ¯s suggestions. And source 1921-293 is considered for real-time 
fringe check.
1)	Good catalogue
Number of sources in the pre-selection list: 
87 (provided by Stas, N >= 3) 
+ 6 (suggested by Oleg) 
+ 1921-293 (for fringe check) = 94
Number of observed sources in the 8 sessions is 76, which is 
decided by the station-based scheduling optimization in Vie_Sched.
2)	Bad catalogue
Number of sources in the pre-selection list: 
182 (provided by Stas, N >= 3) 
+ 7 (suggested by Oleg) = 189
The source 1921-293 for fringe check is already included in the 
182-source pre-selection list.
Number of observed sources in the 7 sessions is 123, which is 
decided by the station-based scheduling optimization in Vie_Sched.

2.	Scheduling parameters
The same scheduling parameters are used for the good catalogue 
and bad catalogue. The station-based scheduling option with fill-in 
mode is employed to schedule for AUST13 campaign.
1)	Cut-off elevation angle: 5 degrees
2)	Minimum scan length: 20 sec 
3)	Maximum scan length: 500 sec
4)	SNR targets: 20 on X band and 15 on S band, to have a better chance for detecting sources successfully.
5)	Duration: 23h51m, i.e. one sidereal day minus 5 min for schedule changeover.
6)	Recording rate: 1Gbps
      16 MHz Ifs
      32 MHz sampling rate
      2-bit quantization
      16 channels (10 channels for X and 6 channels for S band)
7)	Minimum elongation angle to the Sun: 3 degrees

3.	Record data amount per session
The total record data is less than 8 TBytes at each station, 
and the observing time is less than 72.4%. 
 
4.	Fringe check
As required for fringe check, one 20-sec scan per session on 1921-293 
on all telescopes simultaneously is scheduled. 
We schedule this scan as soon as possible when all 5 antennas can 
observe source 1921-293 at the same time. 

5.	Repeatability per sidereal day
The same schedules per sidereal day are obtained.
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If you have any questions, 
please contact Jing Sun (jing.sun@tuwien.ac.at) or 
Johannes Boehm (Johannes.Boehm@geo.tuwien.ac.at).