Program of the mini-workshop

23.3.2006

Final version plus Presentations



All courses will be in the Westerbork lecture room.

Time

Course

Presentation

9:00 – 10:00

Mark 5 (Alan Whitney)

"Testing a Mark 5A System with the Field System"

10:15 – 11:15

Mark 5 (Alan Whitney)

"Mark 5A User's Manual"

11:30 – 12:30

Mark 5 (Alan Whitney)

"Four Mark 5A Tutorials"


Lunch


13:30 – 14:30

Field System (Ed Himwich)

FS part 1, FS part 2

14:30 – 15:30

GNPLT and amplitude calibration (Andrea Orlati)

GNPLT Notes

15:30 – 16:30

Amplitude Calibration (Cormac Reynolds)

Ampcal Workshop

16:30 – 17:30

What can go wrong with calibration (David Graham)

Calibration Problems

17:30 – 18:30

DBBC (Gino Tuccari)

DBBC Workshop



Telescope tour during the 3 Mark 5 lectures.

  1. Ed Himwich (Field System)
    1. Field System Near Term Future Plans (+discussions)
    2. Issues with making antenna calibration work well
    3. Systest suite of Station Test Software
    4. questions/answers/feedback/problems

  2. Alan Whitney (Mark 5)
    1. Hardware configuration
    2. Record and playback testing - 'trkchknn' procedures
    3. Cable testing and debugging
    4. Mark 5B (possibly)
    5. questions/answers/feedback/problems

  3. David Graham (What can go wrong with calibration)
    1. flux density scale
    2. calibration sources
    3. on-off
    4. gnplt
    5. rxg files
    6. VLBA terminals
    7. logfiles
    8. RFI

  4. Andrea Orlati (GNPLT and amplitude calibration)
    1. Overview on FS calibration tools,
    2. Automatic data acquisition for amplitude calibration (ONOFF)
    3. GNPLT typical tasks (calibration of Tcal and gain curves)
    4. Capabilities of GNPLT as data analyser
    5. Questions/answers/feedback/problems

  5. Cormac Reynolds (Amplitude Calibration)

  6. Gino Tuccari (DBBC)