Dear GMVA Investigators and Schedulers,
 
Please find below Version 3.0 of the Block Schedule for the coming
Global 3mm VLBI session in September. The projects which are scheduled have
been approved by the VLBA Scheduler and myself, on the basis of the
proposal reviews in Europe and at NRAO.


PI role in schedule making
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Thomas Krichbaum will assist in making an integrated observing
schedule for the session, and PIs are asked to contact him, to specify
to what extent they wish to be involved in the schedule making for the
part of the schedule when their source(s) is (are) being observed.

       ===> PIs should contact him by 28 AUGUST.
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The final, integrated schedule for the session will be made available
to the observatories by 10 SEPTEMBER, 2 weeks before the start of the
session on 24 SEPTEMBER.
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Participating telescopes
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Unless otherwise indicated on the schedule, the European telescopes 
("Eu" on the schedule) are:   Effelsberg (Eb),   Pico Veleta (Pv),
Plateau de Bure phased array (Pb),    Yebes-40m (Ys)   and 
Metsaehovi (Mh) - which will take part on a best effort basis.
Onsala-20m (On) is not available for this session.

The telescopes available at the VLBA are NL,FD,LA,PT,KP,BR,OV,MK.

The GBT will also take part in project MM002A


Recording mode
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All projects will be recorded at 2 Gbps (except at Plateau de Bure,
which will record 1 Gbps with compatible, overlapping frequency bands).
All observatories will record using MK5 disk systems, with correlation
at the Bonn DiFX software correlator.  MK5 disk availability, and VLBA
disk-change logistics will determine the fraction of the scheduled
time which can be spent recording data.  Walter Alef will make a final
decision on this when all the constraints have been considered.
 

Polarization
------------
All observations will use dual LHC+RHC polarization recording at those
telescopes where this is possible.




General considerations
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===>   Please contact me (porcas@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de) IMMEDIATELY if you 
       find any mistakes or problems with this version of the schedule.
 
 

Richard Porcas

(European Global 3mm VLBI Scheduler)
 
           Schedule Version 3.0 (1 September 2015)                GMVA    SEPTEMBER 2015
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     CODE          PI            SOURCE              POL      DAY NO.  UT-START    UT-STOP     COMMENTS
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Test                             FTP fringe-test     L+R      Eu 267  1700(24/09)-1900(24/09)  Eu
                                  + bandpass-cal

MB003              BAUDRY        chi Cyg (SiO)       L+R      Eu 267  1900(24/09)-2300(24/09)  Eu

MM002A             MARSCHER      Fermi sources       L+R      Eu 268  0000(25/09)-2400(26/09)  Eb,Ys,Mh only (48 hours)
                                                              US 268  0000(25/09)-2400(26/09)  VLBA + GBT    (48 hours)
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