2nd GTG Meeting Ventspils May 22nd 2017

Meeting page:

http://evntog2017.venta.lv/

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

Presentations

J. Kallunki: Station report Methsähovi

S. Sanchez: Station report Pico Veleta

H. Rottmann: Preliminary Correlation Report (Spring 2017)

Minutes

Action Items (draft)

1. (Bach) Compile and publish station  pre-check list.
2. (All stations): invesitgate possibility for front-end tone injection.
3.