2nd GTG Meeting Ventspils May 22nd 2017

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    Agenda

    1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (NN)
    2. Agenda
    3. Minutes from last meeting
      • AIs from last meeting
    4. Reports from the stations (all)
      • Metsähovi (Kallunki) 10 min
      • Pico Veleta (Sanchez)
    5. Report from correlator
      • Session 1/2016 (Alef)
      • Session 2/2016 (Alef)
      • Session 1/2017 (preliminary results) (Rottmann)
      • Changes in procedures/personnel (Rottmann)
    6. GMVA observations & operations
      • News on setting-up and running observations (Bach, all))
      • Communication during observing? (Rottmann)
      • Changes in scheduling (Fringe tests, calibration runs, regular test runs)
      • repository for common GMVA tools?
    7. GMVA calibration - Discussion session
      • necessary steps to improve the calibration quality
        • weather, TPI/TPICAL/CALTEMP, chopper wheel
      • antab file generation:
      • determine K/Jy conversion on e.g. bright planet (in gaps?)
      • gain curves, new gain curves for next session
      • opacity
      • plots of TSYS, weather, tau (e.g. Ef tsm plots)
      • calibration quality control at the correlator
      • store all files on Bologna server
      • additional topics
    8. ALMA and GMVA
      • Overview of the current state
        • sampler stats and AC after each scan needed
      • calibration with full-band mode, ANTAB (DBBC2) (Bach, all)
    9. AOB:
      • control and monitoring
      • Going to 4Gbps?
      • GMVA block schedule - comments?
      • Next meeting?
    10. closing remarks
     

    Minutes

    Action Items

    1. (All) Compile and publish station  pre-check list.
    2. (All stations): invesitgate possibility for line front-end line injection.