Ellie White

Project / Work Tracking

Current Projects

• Quick Guides
  • To do list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zIE52gVDJ7WQxueetYCP2yniIb23dXTzYIS8OZuAj2M/edit
  • Quick Guide Notes and Progress
• Updating / annotating guides
• Telescope and Control Room Tour information
• Breakthrough Listen / SETI: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/Projects/LaundryList
• PTCS
  • Track measurements (learn from Dave)
  • Assist with new pointing model creation
  • Training session on TPOINT file creation / running TPOINT
• HVC workshop LOC:
  • Workshop webpage: https://greenbankobservatory.org/science/meetings-and-workshops/galactic-and-extragalactic-high-velocity-clouds/
  • Code of conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15k_TK-qq-MQMpOp5mxTyQHqfj9jJH-5nhtjBdrTqNtY/edit

Completed Projects / Projects on Standby

• Linking Publications with Completed Projects List
  • Completed Projects: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/Observing/CompletedProjectTracking#erp_TABLE_0
  • Publications: https://library.nrao.edu/papers/?f%5Binstrument.name%5D%5B%5D=GBT&per_page=100&sort=date_sort+desc
  • Note that Lance Utley from NRAO Library sent me a spreadsheet listing the correspondence between various project IDs and publications in ADS. I wrote a python script (in /users/emwhite/gbt_support/publication_proj) to add this new information to the wiki page without deleting any existing information.
• Training Progress
• Completed PTCS Project Note on new pointing models

Interests / Future projects

• EDI / EDG
• VLBI
• Citizen science / GNU Radio / EPO

Useful Links:

• Meeting scheduler: https://mtgp.ad.nrao.edu/suite/Scheduler/DailyView.aspx
• On-call log: https://staff.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/OnCallLogSciDiv
• GBT beta archive: https://gbtarchive-beta.gb.nrao.edu/#
• Memo series links: https://library.nrao.edu/gbt.shtml
• Technical review instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mfk34vk6VCuVQgO71z7Gz9YpQoavQprMOwN3KR3ut0A/edit
• List of instrument experts (for when on-call): https://staff.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/InstrumentSupport
• Helpdesk documentation / instructions: https://www.gb.nrao.edu/scienceDocs/HelpDesk/
• Disposition follow-up templates: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JvWAWRbDUZU2WqYEfQ8GsHuWfyHiudQ63VEuYhG2KeE/edit?usp=sharing
• GBT IDL cheat sheet: https://www.gb.nrao.edu/GBT/DA/gbtidl/QRG_release.pdf

Past projects

• Home page of ongoing project to investigate high-frequency pointing with the GBT (2017 - present): PointingAnalysis2017
• Near-real-time turboSETI on the GBT: NearRealTimeTurboSETI
• Cosmic Twilight Polarimeter Project (summer 2019): CTPProjectPage
• Planetary science bibliography: PlanetarySciencePapers
• 2016: Report on an RFI mitigation project I worked on with RichardPrestage and KeithOmogrosso in Summer 2016; I helped to develop a Python RFI visualization tool and assisted with statistical simulations of Gaussian white noise to distinguish from RFI, as detailed here: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/pub/Main/EllieWhite/RFI_Report.pdf

Projects saved for later

• Link to page about a project using the 20-Meter to do high-sensitivity studies of High Velocity Clouds (HVC's) in the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy: HVCloudsProject
• SETI Search Techniques: SetiSearch

Helpful PTCS stuff

• Traditional holography instructions: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/PTCS/TraditionalHolographyInstructions2018
• Track measurement instructions: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/PTCS/TrackMeasurements

Interesting links

• Open Source Radio Telescopes project: http://opensourceradiotelescopes.org
• GNU Radio: http://gnuradio.org/
• Essential Radio Astronomy: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom/web/xxx.html
• Digital Communications course by Jean Michel Friedt: http://jmfriedt.free.fr/
• rpi-sensor-data.py.txt: rpi-sensor-data.py.txt