GTAC Observation Log 1. Date : 07/01/2017 2. Observation Sr. No. : 9117 3. Observer : Yashwant Gupta, BHAL CHANDRA JOSHI, Manjari Bagchi, Sushan Konar, Niruj Mohan, Poonam Chandra, Mayuresh Surnis, Gopakumar Achamveedu, Debades Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Avinash Anant Deshpande, Biprateep Dey, Vishal R Gajjar, Sanjay S. Kudale, Yogesh Maan, Chandreyee Maitra, Nikhil Vijay Naik, Sachindra Naik, Paramasivan Arumugam, Alak Ray 4. Observer's Email : ygupta@ncra.tifr.res.in, bcj@ncra.tifr.res.in, manjari.bagchi@gmail.com, sushan@ncra.tifr.res.in, mohan@ncra.tifr.res.in, poonam@ncra.tifr.res.in, mpsurnis@ncra.tifr.res.in, gopu.tifr@gmail.com, debades.bandyopadhyay@saha.ac.in, dipankar@iucaa.in, desh@rri.res.in, biprateep.d@niser.ac.in, gajjar@ncra.tifr.res.in, ksanjay@gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in, maan@astron.nl, chandreyeee@gmail.com, naiknikhil27@gmail.com, snaik.prl@gmail.com, p.arumugam@gmail.com, akr@tifr.res.in 5. Project Name : Survey for Pulsars and Fast Transients with the upgraded GMRT : A Pilot Study 6. Project Code : 31_058 7. Operator(s) : Nilesh, Pramod, Sachin 8. Command File : /odisk/gtac/cmd 9. LTA File : /gwbifrdata/07jan/31_058_07jan2017_500lo_gwb.lta 10. LogFlag File : /odisk/online1/logflags/31_058.FLAGS.1 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 : 24+4 dB, 32 MHz,OFF, IF-CH2 : 24+4 dB, 32 MHz,OFF GSB SETTINGS : 14. GSB Host : gsbm1_shivneri 15. GSB Mode : Realtime 16. GSB LTA : 8 17. GSB CTRL : ONLINE 18. GSB Fstop : ON 19. GAIN EQ : OFF 20. Stokes : Total_Intensity 21. Beam - 1 : IA 22. Beam - 2 : PA 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 : 16.1061 Sec 31. No of Antennas Working(Fringing) at the beginning :22 32. Name of Non-Working Antennas (with reason for each) : C08 : Frequently getting in reset. C09,C10,C11,C13,E04,S01 : Servo problem. W05 : Feed jammed. 33. Note for Backup : 34. Start and End Time of Obs.(IST): 07 Jan 2017 05:00:00 - 07 Jan 2017 13:05:00 35. ONLINE Machine : Lenyadri 36. No of Antennas Working(Fringing) at the end :22 37. Comments (During Observations) : 05:00 : Started set up. 05:13 : Power equalized and phasing done on 3C286. 05:22:36 : Started scan on 3C286 for ~ 0.53687 min. 05:34:44 : Started scan on 1526-138 for ~ 1.07374 min. 05:36:23 : Started scan on 1526-138 for ~ 0.53687 min. 05:38:34 : Started scan on B1642-03 for ~ 12.8849 min. 05:52:54 : Started scan on 1623-116 for ~ 1.34218 min. 05:54:37 : Started scan on 1623-116 for ~ 1.61061 min. 05:56:39 : Started scan on 1623-116 for ~ 0.805306 min. 05:58:32 : Started scan on 1625-254 for ~ 1.07374 min. 06:00:01 : Started scan on 1625-254 for ~ 0 min. 06:01:40 : Started scan on 1526-138 for ~ 1.07374 min. 06:03:09 : Started scan on 1526-138 for ~ 2.14748 min. 06:08:57 : Started scan on 001D+000R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 06:20:13 : Started scan on 059D+002R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 06:31:25 : Started scan on 128D+004R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 06:42:27 : Started scan on 192D+006R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 06:53:39 : Started scan on 130D+004R31 for ~ 9.66367 min. 07:04:56 : Started scan on 061D+002R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 07:17:04 : Started scan on 1526-138 for ~ 1.07374 min. 07:18:43 : Started scan on 1526-138 for ~ 0.268435 min. 07:21:13 : Started scan on 002D+000R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 07:32:20 : Started scan on 003D+000R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 07:43:41 : Started scan on 004D+000R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 07:54:48 : Started scan on 063D+002R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 08:06:00 : Started scan on 132D+004R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 08:17:12 : Started scan on 194D+006R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 08:28:42 : Started scan on 1822-096 for ~ 0.805306 min. 08:29:53 : Started scan on 1822-096 for ~ 0.53687 min. 08:31:45 : Started scan on 134D+004R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 08:42:52 : Started scan on 065D+002R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 08:53:59 : Started scan on 005D+000R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 09:05:16 : Started scan on 006D+000R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 09:16:32 : Started scan on 067D+002R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 09:27:35 : Started scan on 196D+006R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 09:39:05 : Started scan on 1822-096 for ~ 0.805306 min. 09:40:20 : Started scan on 1822-096 for ~ 0.53687 min. 09:42:09 : Started scan on 069D+002R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 09:53:25 : Started scan on 007D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 10:04:46 : Started scan on 008D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 10:15:49 : Started scan on 198D+006R31 for ~ 9.9321 min. 10:27:05 : Started scan on 071D+002R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 10:38:21 : Started scan on 009D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 10:51:49 : Started scan on 1822-096 for ~ 0.805306 min. 10:53:09 : Started scan on 1822-096 for ~ 0.268435 min. 10:55:07 : Started scan on 073D+002R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 11:06:47 : Started scan on 010D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 11:18:03 : Started scan on 075D+002R32 for ~ 10.2005 min. 11:29:24 : Started scan on 011D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 11:40:22 : Started scan on 077D+002R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 11:51:24 : Started scan on 012D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 12:06:12 : Started scan on 1830-360 for ~ 0.805306 min. 12:07:23 : Started scan on 1830-360 for ~ 0.53687 min. 12:10:21 : Started scan on 079D+002R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 12:21:33 : Started scan on 013D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 12:32:49 : Started scan on 081D+002R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 12:44:01 : Started scan on 014D+000R32 for ~ 9.9321 min. 12:55:04 : Started scan on 083D+002R32 for ~ 1.61061 min. 13:00 : Stopped observations.