GTAC Observation Log

1. Date : 09/12/2017
2. Observation Sr. No. : 9935
3. Observer : Russ Taylor, David Alan Green, Jeroen Maarten Stil, Paul Alexander, Julia Margaret Riley, Preshanth Jagannathan, Samuel Legodi, Julie K Grant
4. Observer's Email : russ@ras.ucalgary.ca, dag@mrao.cam.ac.uk, stil@ras.ucalgary.ca, p.alexander@mrao.cam.ac.uk, julia@mrao.cam.ac.uk, preshanthj@gmail.com, lgdlet001@myuct.ac.za, jgrant@ras.ucalgary.ca
5. Project Name : Completing the Deep Wide-Area 612-MHz Full-Stokes Survey of the ELAIS N1 Field
6. Project Code : 32_095
7. Operator(s) : Deepak, Navnath, Sachin, Shilpa, Surender
8. Command File : /odisk/gtac/cmd/32_095/obs_03jul.cmd
9. LTA File : /gsbifrdata1/09dec/32_095_09dec2017.lta
10. LogFlag File : /odisk/online1/logflags/33_037.FLAGS.1

ANTENNA SETTINGS :

11. RF Band(MHz) & Solar Attn(dB)- RF1 : 591 MHz ,RF2 : 591 MHz, SA1 : 0 dB, SA2 : 0 dB
12. Ist LO (MHz) & IVth LO (MHz): ILO1 : 540 MHz, ILO2 : 540MHz , 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_lenyadri
15. GSB Mode : Realtime
16. GSB LTA : 8
17. GSB CTRL : ONLINE
18. GSB Fstop : ON
19. GAIN EQ : ON
20. Stokes : Full_Stokes
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) : 591 591 540 540 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) :
E03 : Low fringe.
W01 : Low fringe (Feed jam).

33. Note for Backup :

34. Start and End Time of Obs.(IST): 09 Dec 2017 05:15:00 - 09 Dec 2017 16:00:00

35. ONLINE Machine : Lenyadri

36. No of Antennas Working(Fringing) at the end :27

37. Comments (During Observations) :
05:15 : Started settings.
05:29 : Started scan on 3C286 for 10min.

05:41 : '/odisk/gtac/cmd/32_095/obs_03jul.cmd' command file started.

09:47 : E04 taken for Mech work.
09:55 : C12 taken for Painting.

11:00 - 11:10 : Started scan on 3C286 for 10min.

11:11 : '/odisk/gtac/cmd/32_095/obs_03jul.cmd' command file started.

11:10 - 12:00 : W01 Taken for FPS work.
12:00 : W01 released for observation.
16:00 : Observation session over.