GTAC Observation Log 1. Date : 19/07/2021 2. Observation Sr. No. : 13309 3. Observer : Matthias Hoeft, Alexander Drabent, Kamlesh Rajpurohit, Cosmos Dumba, Andrea Botteon, Reinout Johannes vanWeeren, Shubham Milind Bhagat 4. Observer\'s Email : hoeft@tls-tautenburg.de, alex@tls-tautenburg.de, kamlesh.rajpurohit@unibo.it, cosmos.dumba@yahoo.com, botteon@strw.leidenuniv.nl, rvweeren@strw.leidenuniv.nl, bhagat.shubham22@gmail.com 5. Project Name : Abell 1430: A radio bridge and a fading radio halo? 6. Project Code : 40_102 7. Operator(s) : Nilesh, Shilpa, Shriram, Surender 8. Command File : /data1/gtac/cmd/40_102/obs_19jul.py 9. LTA File : /gsbifrdata1/19jul/40_102_19jul2021_gsb.lta, /gwbifrdata1/19jul/40_102_19jul2021_gwb.lta 10. LogFlag File : ANTENNA SETTINGS : 11. RF Band(MHz) & Solar Attn(dB)- RF1 : 306 MHz ,RF2 : 306 MHz, SA1 : 0 dB, SA2 : 0 dB 12. Ist LO (MHz) & IVth LO (MHz): ILO1 : 255 MHz, ILO2 : 255MHz , IVLO1 : 51 MHz, IVLO2 : 51 MHz 13. IF Attn(dB) , IF BW(MHz) & IF ALC : IF-CH1 : 4+14 dB, 32 MHz,ON, IF-CH2 : 4+14 dB, 32 MHz,ON GSB SETTINGS : 14. GSB Host : gsbm1_shivneri 15. GSB Mode : Realtime 16. GSB LTA : 8 17. GSB CTRL : TGC 18. GSB Fstop : ON 19. GAIN EQ : ON 20. Stokes : Total_Intensity 21. Beam - 1 : OFF 22. Beam - 2 : OFF 23. ACQ BW : 33.333333 MHz 24. Final BW : 0 MHz; Step # 0 25. Maximum Channels : 256 26. Channel Numbers : 0:255:1 27. LO5 -1 : 149 28. LO5 -2 : 156 29. Frequency Parameters (TPA) : 306 306 255 255 51 51 30. Integration Time : 8.053 Sec 31. No of Antennas Working(Fringing) at the beginning :28 32. Name of Non-Working Antennas (with reason for each) : C03 : Mechanical Work. C05 : Maintenance work. 33. Note for Backup : 34. Start and End Time of Obs.(IST): 19 Jul 2021 12:00:00 - 19 Jul 2021 20:03:00 35. ONLINE Machine : TGC 36. No of Antennas Working(Fringing) at the end :29 37. RFI Status : 38. Comments (During Observations) : ------------GWB Setting--------------------------------------------------- GPU_MODE : Realtime GPU_LTA : 4 GPU_ACQ_BW : 200.0000 GPU_FINAL_BW : 200 GPU_EDGE_FRQ : 0 GPU_CHAN_MAX : 2048 GPU_CHAN_NUM : 0:2047:1 GPU_STOKES : Total_Intensity GPU_SIDEBAND : -1 -1 GPU_RF4 : 500 500 GPU_DDCLO4 : 0.0000 0.0000 GPU_SB4 : -1 -1 GCODE4 : 40_102 GPU_CNTRL : TGC GPU_FSTOP : ON GPU_BEAM_1 : OFF GPU_BEAM_2 : OFF GPU_BEAM_3 : OFF GPU_BEAM_4 : OFF GPU_BM_INT : 8 GPU_GAINEQ : ON GPU_TPA : From online/TGC tpa GPU_BITS : 8 Bits GPU_FILRFI : Voltage Detection GPU_BEAM_S : OFF GPU_PFB : ON GPU_PFB_TAPS : 4 GPU_BEAM_BIT : 16 GPU_VLT_BIT : 8 GPU_ENV : RELEASED -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------GWB RFI Filter Setting---------------------------------------------- FILTERED_SIGNALS : RFI_ALL # RFI_ALL=All signals filtered / RFI_CH1 =Channel 1 only / RFI_CH2=Channel 2 only EXTERNAL MEDIAN : 0 # integer value(-128 to 127) THRESHOLD VALUE : 4 # integer value(0 to 127) CONSTANT VALUE : 0 # integer value(-128 to 127) FILTERING OPTION : DIGITAL NOISE # BYPASS / CONSTANT=constant value is used / THRESHOLD / DIGITAL_NOISE DDC_STATUS : OFF # DDC = ON/OFF -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00 : Started settings. 12:20 : Scan no. 0 and 1 bad, some antennas not tracking properly. 12:32 : \'/data1/gtac/cmd/40_102/obs_19jul.py\' command file started. 14:45 : C05 released for observations. 19:51 : E02 not tracking properly. 19:57 : E02 started tracking. 20:03 : Command file stopped and observing session over.