Meeting Information

  • 1600 UT (1000 MDT)
  • AOC 317; IP: 146.88.16.8; phone: +1 575-835-7370

Agenda/Minutes

News, Travel, Visitors (McMullin)

  • Overall status: In BnA concludes next week; move to A config begins on Tuesday; 4-band dipoles in place; correlator good to 64 BlB pairs. New version of correlator software - some issues with troubled first scans. Talks this week (SDM - Francois Viallefond at 2pm today; Ger van Diepen at ??)
  • Key dates:
    • 07 May - 15 Jun: 4-band science observing
    • 13-31 May: BnA configuration
    • May 22-26, 2011 - AAS, Boston (Rick and Chris there)
    • May 30, 2011 - NRAO Holiday - Commissioning meeting will be shifted in time to accommodate the sundry Monday morning meetings (likely an 11 am start).
  • Staff Travel:
    • LS: 9 May - 20 Jun
    • RP: 16 May - 25 May
    • GM: 25 May - 24 Jun
    • FO: 26 May - 09 Jun
    • FO: 12 Aug - 12 Sep
  • Visitors:
    • Robert Harris (AC982): 24 Apr - 16 Jul
    • Bob Sault: 16 May - 23 Jun

Hardware status and updates (Langley, Perley, Rupen)

  • Array (Perley/Langley):
    • Antennas: EA18 back in next week (rolled into A configuration move). EA21 next in.
    • Receivers: this week focus on EA18 (Ku).
    • Calibration (Perley): Ongoing investigation into the switched power compression/expansion; able to reproduce issue in testing but underlying cause is yet to be determined.
  • WIDAR (Rupen):
    • Notes (Rupen/Sowinski): 3-bit testing nearly complete this week (long integration and multiple tests for stability); subarrays nearly deployed. ability to move subbands around (digital mixer), finer fshift resolution (0.1 Hz) deployed.
  • Computing (Robnett):

Software status and updates (Butler)

Commissioning Group Reports and Test Planning

  • NOTE: Please cc me on submitted tests so that it can be assigned the appropriate priority!

Commissioning priorities for the week (McMullin, Chandler)

Single maintenance day week:
  • Mon
    • 0900-1600 Testing
    • 1600-0900(Tues) Science operations and testing
  • Tue: Maintenance day:
    • 0630-? Testing/software development time
  • Wed: Maintenance day
    • 0630-1700: Maintenance operations
    • 1800-0900: Science operations and testing
  • Thu:
    • 0900-1700: Testing/software development time
    • 1800-0900: Science operations and testing
  • Fri (not-yet-a-holiday but Monday is):
    • 0900-1700: Testing/software development time
    • 1800-0900: Science operations and testing
  • Sat-Sun
    • Science operations + planned testing

Issues Affecting Science Observing:

  • Correlator: [Pokorny/Rupen/McMullin] time mislabeling in SDM data (non-synchronous operation between correlator dumps and CBE can require additional 1/2 integration time padding for online flags). Ready for testing!
  • Correlator: [Clark/Carlson] Delay rocking across bands. Implementation pending factor-of-2 reconciliation.
  • Correlator: [Rupen/Carlson w/ Momjian/Sault] V stokes issues; test observations this morning.
  • Array: [Gustaaf] Amplitude wobbles seen on subset of antennas; phase jumps at scan boundaries also seen on subset of antennas (Ka, Q bands only thus far).
  • Array: [All] Zoo of other effects (some data are very good, some still seeing antenna-based IF/Polarization issue).

Testing This week

  • 3-bit samplers (Dhawan+): highest priorities; most tests complete.
  • 4-band testing (see report later).
  • CM/CBE update testing (subarrays+ deconfiguration problems).
  • Spectral Line (Linz/Ott): Spectral dynamic range test (TSPE0010.3923557). Complete.
  • Spectral Line (Goss/Chomiuk): BP stability/repeatability (TSPE0005.3699117). Complete..
  • Correlator: Rupen: S-band shadow testing; This week as possible.
  • Correlator: Durand/McMullin/Pokorny/Butler; review of CRC error events (may involve testing).
  • Spectral line: Momjian: HI High resolution bandpass testing
  • Array: *; Individual issue sleuthing

Commissioning Groups

    • Adv: Low band (Owen):
      • Notes:
  • Calibrator Models
    • Notes: Status report and Ka/S update: 32 and 37 GHz observations available for 3C138, 3C147, 3C48 (3C286 by the end of the week); currently the information is put on the web (rather than added directly to CASA/AIPS; after A configuration data is added, it will be added directly. S band is not yet available.

RSRO/ECSO Reports

RSRO B configuration status: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/EVLA/2011BRSROStatus

Individual reports (updates)

Misc:

Demo Science Status

AOB

Misc Actions

  • [McMullin]: Contact to Paul regarding delay in phased array.
  • [Wrobel-Claire]: Identify L-band continuum projects (first step in determining how to educate these users).
  • [Harland]: OPT 4-band frequency settings; fixed date mode. Fixed in 1.09.
  • [McMullin]: Review/recover metrics for Priority 0 items.
  • [Perley/McMullin]: SPW/IF/BB lexicon and mapper
  • Development of WIDAR guidelines document (Michael)
  • List of known problems (can be used by OSRO commissioning team (van Moorsel)
      • Med Priority [TBD]: Added. Phase change when frequency changes (needs to be tested).

-- JosephMcMullin - 2011-05-23
Topic revision: r2 - 2011-05-24, JosephMcMullin
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