Table of contents
- 1. Meeting page:
- 2. Agenda
- 3. Presentations
- 4. Minutes
- 5. Action Items
Meeting page:
Agenda
- Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (NN)
- Agenda
- Minutes from last meeting
- AIs from last meeting
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- Reports from the stations (all)
- Metsähovi (Kallunki) 10 min
- Pico Veleta (Sanchez)
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- Report from correlator
- Session 1/2016 (Alef)
- Session 2/2016 (Alef)
- Session 1/2017 (preliminary results) (Rottmann)
- Changes in procedures/personnel (Rottmann)
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- 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?
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- GMVA calibration - Discussion session
- necessary steps to improve the calibration quality
- weather, TPI/TPICAL/CALTEMP, chopper wheel
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- 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
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- ALMA and GMVA
- Overview of the current state
- sampler stats and AC after each scan needed
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- calibration with full-band mode, ANTAB (DBBC2) (Bach, all)
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- AOB:
- control and monitoring
- Going to 4Gbps?
- GMVA block schedule - comments?
- Next meeting?
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- closing remarks
Presentations
J. Kallunki: Station report Methsähovi
S. Sanchez: Station report Pico Veleta
H. Rottmann: Correlation Report (Spring 2017)
Minutes
Action Items
- (All) Compile and publish station pre-check list.
- (All stations): invesitgate possibility for line front-end line injection.