1st GTG Meeting Madrid February 8th, 2016

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    1st GTG Meeting: Madrid February 8th, 2016

    Agenda

    1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Colomer, Vicente)
    2. 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
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. 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
    6. AOB / closing remarks

    Presentations

    GMVA Overview (Walter Alef)

    GMVA tools (Helge Rottmann):

    GMVA session (Helge Rottmann):

    DBBC2 & FS (Uwe Bach):

    ALMA mode (Walter Alef):

    Station Report:

    Onsala (Jun Yang):

    KVN (Taehyun Jung):

    VLBA/GBT (Walter Brisken):

    Pico Veleta (Salvador Sanchez):

    Plateau de Bure (Michael Bremer):

    Metsahövi (Juha Kallunki):

     

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