High Frequency Observing

Scope

Description: The high frequency observing mode commissioning covers the testing, development and documentation of observing strategies and post-processing guidelines for high frequency observations.

Group

• Leader: Claussen/Sjouwerman
• Primary Participants: Carilli, Chandler, Marvil, McMullin, Momjian, Owen
• RSRO Participants: Brogan Corder, Hunter, Leroy, Perez

High Frequency Observing Documentation

• http://evlaguides.nrao.edu/index.php?title=Category:HighFrequency#Current-.3ERevised_OSS_Guidelines

Coarse Commissioning Plan & Status

Note: All high frequency tickets in JIRA may be found by doing a quick search on 'High Frequency'; you can also go under 'Issues'->'Search for issues', select on Project: EVLA Commissioning and Science Verification and Components: High Frequency.

ECSV task	ECSV subtask	Target	Responsible	Quarter	Status
54	-	High Frequency Observing documents (Parent)	Sjouwerman	2011-Q1
-	30	High frequency observing commissioning plan	Sjouwerman	2010-Q1
-	117	High frequency observer recommendations documentation	Sjouwerman	2010-Q4
-	118	High frequency calibration service observations proposal	Sjouwerman	2010-Q4
122	-	Observing Preparation (Parent)	Sjouwerman	2011-Q4
-	123	Test OPT setup for high frequency observing strategies	Sjouwerman	2011-Q4
-	130	Test Exposure Calculator results compared to realized sensitivities to monitor and update	Claussen	2011-Q2
124	-	High Frequency Calibration (Parent)	Claussen	2011-Q4
-	14	High frequency complex gain stabilty	Claussen	2011-Q4
-	125	High Frequency gain calibration (weak calibrator sources)	Chandler	2011-Q4
-	16	Reference Pointing	Perez	2011-Q4
-	126	Switched Power and Weather tables	Perley?	2011-Q4
-	127	Calibration Transfer	Claussen	2011-Q4
xx	-	High Frequency Pipeline (Parent)	Sjouwerman	2011-Q4
-	xx	Calibration Pipeline heuristics	Sjouwerman	2011-Q4
-	xx	High frequency flagging (includes poor atmospheric phase stability) (contact with flagging group)	Sjouwerman	2011-Q4
120	-	High Frequency Observations Monitoring (Parent)	Claussen	2011-Q4
-	119	High frequency flux,gain calibrator monitoring	Perley	2011-Q4
-	148	Flux density calibration in LST 16 - 20 h range	Sjouwerman	2011-Q2
-	121	High frequency calibrator list development	Claussen	2011-Q4

Reference Pointing

• Reference Pointing
• Reference Pointing Testing

Switched Power Monitoring

Group Minutes

• HighFreq_03Feb11
• HighFreq_24Feb11

-- JosephMcMullin - 11 Aug 2010