Session Notes for AUST13 campaign: a1304
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: AUST1304                    Description AUST13 DAY 04
 Scheduler:  VIEN                        Correlator: CRTN      
 Start:      2013-335-18:48:12           End:        2013-336-16:00:00
 Current yyyyddd:    2013335 (2013.92)  ( 56627 MJD, Sun 01Dec.)
 Greenwich sidereal time:   23:31:21 (18:48:12 UT)
 Sun's RA and DEC:   16h32.3m    -21d54.5
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First observations
Observation listing from file ./a1304.skd  for experiment AUST1304  
Source      Start      DURATIONS                                           
name     yyddd-hhmmss   Ht  Hb  Ke  Ww  Yg 
0537-441 13335-184812   20  20  20  20  20|            
......
End of listing.
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Last observations
Observation listing from file ./a1304.skd  for experiment AUST1304  
Source      Start      DURATIONS                                           
name     yyddd-hhmmss   Ht  Hb  Ke  Ww  Yg
......
0220-349 13336-155734  124 435 392 435 435|
End of listing.
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   SKED Summary from file ./a1304.skd  for experiment AUST1304   

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)

 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =     2.6
 Min =      1  Max =     18 (Baseline Hb-Yg on 0637-752 )  RMS =   3.4

 Total time:    1271.8 minutes (  21.2 hours)

 Key:     Ht=HART15M    Hb=HOBART12   Ke=KATH12M    Ww=WARK12M    Yg=YARRA12M   
                   Ht   Hb   Ke   Ww   Yg   Avg
 % obs. time:      33   70   71   66   72   62
 % cal. time:       7    6    6    6    8    7
 % slew time:      16   11   12   11   14   13
 % idle time:      43   12   11   16    6   17
 total # scans:   319  297  309  269  373  313
 # scans/hour :    16   15   15   13   18   15
 Avg scan (sec):   79  180  175  187  148  154
 Total GBytes:   3168 6698 6750 6273 6887 5955

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
  |  Ht   Hb   Ke   Ww   Yg   StnTotal
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Ht|      186  200  157  279    1760
Hb|           238  224  222    1900
Ke|                205  267    1963
Ww|                     191    1714
Yg|                            2002

 Number of  2-station scans: 178
 Number of  3-station scans: 107
 Number of  4-station scans: 55
 Number of  5-station scans: 134

 Total # of scans, observations:   474     2169
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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 114, 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).