! Example file for a Global VLBI + VSOP observation. ! ! Schedules the ground telescopes (GRTs) only. ! A VEX file will be made. ! Based on an example provided by Huib vanLangevelde, 5-Feb-1997. ! S2 removed Dec. 5, 2008 RCW. ! Renamed DSN stations Oct 11, 2011 ! ! ================================================================ ! Control Information ! ================================================================ overwrite sumitem = el1, el2, disk, dwell, early, slew ! good idea to study ! slew times ! ================================================================ ! Experiment information ! ================================================================ expcode = 'VT002' expt = 'VT002 VSOP test 16jun96, Now a scheduling example' version = 6 obstype = 'vlbi' ! ! ================================================================ ! PI section ! ================================================================ piname = 'Rikako OKAYASU' address1 = 'Institute of Space and Astronautical Science' address2 = '3-1-1 Yoshinodai' address3 = 'Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229' address4 = 'Japan' phone = '+81-427-51-3911' obsphone = '+81-427-51-3911' email = 'okayasu@vsop.isas.ac.jp' fax = '+81-427-51-3972' note1 = 'Please send your tapes to Socorro within 2 days.' ! ================================================================ ! Correlator section ! ================================================================ correl = 'Socorro' coravg = 2 coravg2 = 0.262 corchan = 128 cornant = 12 corpol = 'off' corwtfn = 'uniform' corsrcs = 'standard' cortape = DAT corship1 = 'Rikako OKAYASU' corship2 = 'Institute of Space and Astronautical Science' corship3 = '3-1-1 Yoshinodai Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229,Japan' cornote1 = 'Please be careful about the H2O maser positions' ! ================================================================ ! Setup files ! ================================================================ setini = vsop6cm.set / nchan = 2 bits = 2 bbfilter = 16.0 pol = lcp freqref = 4962.00, 4978.00 netside = U, U barrel = 'roll_off' / endset / ! ! ! setini = vsop1cm.set / nchan = 2 bits = 2 bbfilter = 16.0 pol = lcp freqref = 22200.0, 22216.0 barrel = 'roll_off' / endset / ! ================================================================ ! Additional (Maser) positions ! ================================================================ srccat / source='w3oh' ra=02:23:16.90 dec= 61:38:57.920 equinox='b1950' vel = -48.8 / endcat / ! ================================================================ ! Catalogs. These are the standard ones and are the defalts. ! ================================================================ stafile = '$SCHED/catalogs/stations.dat' freqfile = '$SCHED/catalogs/freq.dat' ! ================================================================ ! Set up a line section ! ================================================================ lineinit / lineset = 'H2Omain' restfreq = 22235.080 / ! both channels set to same frequency endlines / ! ================================================================ ! Optimization stuff ! ================================================================ opminant = 2 ! Don't schedule if only 1 Antenna optmode = scans ! Don't try to observe sources that have set ! ================================================================ ! The schedule ! ================================================================ ! Various ways of specifying parameters are shown as examples. ! Note that the scan lengths of 6:30 (390 sec) are more appropriate ! for low density recordings which, for this mode, have 13 min per ! pass on thin tape. At the current high density default, about ! 2000 ft of tape will not be used except at the automatic allocation ! stations. This shows an effect of the autoreverse ability. setup = vsop6cm.set year = 1996 day = 168 start = 6:00:00 stations = shanghai, torun, noto, eb_rdbe, jb2_vlba, wb, mc, hn, gbt_vlba, nl, sc ! source = '1928+738' dur = 390 / source = '1928+738' dur = 6:30 gap = 50 / 2 ! ! Read back test every 1.5 hours (only needs to be 2 min). ! source = '1928+738' dur = 390 gap = 300 / repeat 11 source = '1928+738' gap = 50 / source = '1928+738' dur = 390 gap = 5:00 / repeat 11 source = '1928+738' gap = 50 / 26 ! ! Enforce a tape change at thick tape and S2 stations ! Note S2 is no more and noto_s2 has been changed to noto ! tape = shanghai, torun, noto, jb2_vlba, wb, mc ! ! Allow 15 mins for EVN tape change ! source = '1928+738' dur = 390 gap = 15:00 / repeat 11 source = '1928+738' gap = 50 / source = '1928+738' dur = 390 gap = 15:00 / 39 ! ! Add some more scans to force a tape change at the thin tape ! stations (SCHED test and example). ! source = '0552+398' dur = 390 gap = 15:00 / repeat 11 source = '0552+398' gap = 50 / source = '0552+398' dur = 390 gap = 15:00 / 52 ! ! Now exercise the VLBA autotape stuff with some long scans. ! stations = hn, nl, sc source = '0552+398' dur = 1:00:00 gap = 15:00 / repeat 10 source = '0552+398' gap = 2:00 / ! ! Now specify a maser observation, different stations ! This is a completely different experiment really, but SCHED ! can handle it here. ! Note frequency only set to nearest 1 MHz -- VSOP limitation. ! ! Note that both channels will be set to the same frequency ! so the line will be in both. To separate, the user would ! need to specify different rest frequencies for each channel ! or different velocity for each channel in the source catalog. ! ! There is some problem with the modes sorting that requires ! that a more complete setup file be used for the second ! band. Huib will work on it. This should not affect single ! band observations. ! setup = vsop1cm.set linename 'H2Omain' dopincr = 1000 doppler pcal = 'off' stations = mh, la, kp, vlba_ov, br, dss14 ! Do not overlap with above scans. VEX won't like it. ! This file must have evolved. As of Feb. 4, 2013, this start ! is before the end of the above scans so they do overlap. But ! SCHED is not objecting because there are no stations in common. ! It is not the case here, but one should not schedule different ! stations in different scans on the same source and expect that ! they will be correlated, as they would have been with the ! original VLBA, log-driven correlator. They will be in separate ! VEX scans and so will not be correlated by a VEX driven correlator ! like DiFX. start = 13:30:00 ! ! Start with calibrator but set Doppler tracking to source ! dopsrc = 'w3oh' source = '3C84' dur = 390 gap = 0 / source = 'w3oh' dur = 390 gap = 300 / repeat 12 source = 'w3oh' gap = 50 / ! ! .....and one scan on a cal source, to find delay for GRTs ! source = '0212+735' dur = 390 gap = 300 / ! repeat 12 source = 'w3oh' gap = 120 / ! source = '0212+735' dur = 390 gap = 300 / !