Table of contents
- 1. 1st GTG Meeting: Madrid February 8th, 2016
- 1.1. Agenda
- 1.2. Presentations
- 1.3. Minutes
- 1.4. Action Items
1st GTG Meeting: Madrid February 8th, 2016
Agenda
- Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Colomer, Vicente)
- GMVA Technical Group (GTG) constitution
- overview of the GMVA. Purpose/mission of the GMVA Technical Group (Alef)
- discuss and agree on GTG statutes, meeting cadence etc. (all GMVA)
- appoint the GTG chair
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- GMVA observations & operations
- Overview of observation preparation and operations e.g. pre-checks, DBBC2 news, FS news etc. (Bach)
- Overview support infrastructure,: FTP servers, web pages, mailing lists etc. (Rottmann)
- Discussion session (all)
- standardization of operational procedure
- fringe check procedure
- DBBC2 PFB mode, PFB firmware version
- FS schedule generation for PFB modes
- log file contents
- station session logs
- additional topics
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- GMVA calibration
- Station reports on the current amplitude calibration strategy (every GMVA station 5-10 min)
- Discussion session (all)
- necessary steps to improve the calibration quality
- Tsys extraction in real-time
- opacity issues
- antab file generation
- calibration quality control at the correlator
- additional topics
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- ALMA and GMVA
- Overview of the current state, ALMA commissioning and GMVA-ALMA tests (Rottmann, Alef)
- Discussion session (all)
- implications on GMVA operations
- additional topics
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- AOB / closing remarks
Presentations
Station Reports:
Onsala (Jun Yang)
Pico Veleta (Salvador Sanchez)
