! Prepared by Z.P. on 27 November 2000. ! ! ! Ground station gain curve infos for Ceduna and Hartrao are from ! http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/obs/GRTcal.html/nominal_gain_C.cal, ! last updated on 28 Jun 1999. ! ! Nominal Tsys values are used for Ceduna ! http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/obs/GRTcal.html/nominal_tsys_C.cal, ! last updated on 28 Jun 1999. ! ! HALCA gain curve information is from ftp://vsoper1.vsop.isas.ac.jp/vsop/ ! vsopoper/data/srt/corrinputs/calib/halca_gain.key ! ! HALCA nominal Tsys is from ! http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/obs/HALCAcal.html ! For IF1 and IF2 the nominal Tsys are 92 K and 96 K as measured at 4.95 GHz, ! closest to our reference frequency of 4.93 GHz. CONTROL INDEX 'L1|L2' / !******************************************* ! Ceduna 30m nominal value at 5GHz ! Updated with gain curve from R. Dodson 2-Feb-99 ! SEFD ~ 380 Jy ! DPFU = Tsys/SEFD = 0.13 GAIN CEDUNA ELEV DPFU = 0.13, 0.13 POLY = 0.13429, 0.15001, -1.0379E-2, 3.5063E-4, -6.0847E-6, 5.2003E-8, -1.7319E-10 / !******************************************* !******************************************* ! Hartebeesthoek 26m at 6cm ! (970414) ! GAIN HARTRAO ALTAZ DPFU=0.085, 0.085 POLY=1.00, 0.0001739, -1.412E-5, 3.289E-7, -2.939E-9 / !******************************************* !******************************************* ! C-band data from July 18 (Cas-A; 2 pointing scans): ! peak gain = 0.0064 K/Jy ! uncorrected pointing error = ~6' ! measured beam FWHM = ~31.3' (assumed circ. Gauss.) ! pointing loss gain factor = 0.90 !GAIN GZ DPFU=(0.0064*0.90) FREQ=4700,5000 ALTAZ POLY=1.0 / !GAIN NZ DPFU=(0.0064*0.90) FREQ=4700,5000 ALTAZ POLY=1.0 / !GAIN RZ DPFU=(0.0064*0.90) FREQ=4700,5000 ALTAZ POLY=1.0 / !GAIN TZ DPFU=(0.0064*0.90) FREQ=4700,5000 ALTAZ POLY=1.0 / !GAIN UZ DPFU=(0.0064*0.90) FREQ=4700,5000 ALTAZ POLY=1.0 / !GAIN HALCA DPFU=(0.0064*0.90) FREQ=4700,5000 ALTAZ POLY=1.0 / GAIN VSOP_SC DPFU=0.0058, 0.0058 FREQ=4700,5000 ALTAZ POLY=1.0 / !******************************************* !******************************************* ! Ceduna 30m. ! Last updated Feb 3, 1999. Information from R. Dodson ! DFPU = 0.13 K/Jy ! Tsys is fit as a function of zenith angle (x) as follows: ! Tsys(x) = a + bx + cx^2 + dx^3 +ex^4 + fx^5 + gx^6 ! where a = 49.7109, b = -0.157068, c = 0.0249903, ! d = -0.00148014, e = 3.97566e-05, f = -4.88072e-07, ! g = 2.2477e-09 ! Below is a table of this polynomial at 5 degree intervals in ZA. ! ZA El Tsys (K) ! 0 90 49.7109 ! 5 85 49.3887 ! 10 80 49.5101 ! 15 75 49.6499 ! 20 70 49.6676 ! 25 65 49.5883 ! 30 60 49.5076 ! 35 55 49.5227 ! 40 50 49.6885 ! 45 45 49.9985 ! 50 40 50.3921 ! 55 35 50.7857 ! 60 30 51.1306 ! 65 25 51.4953 ! 70 20 52.1729 ! 75 15 53.8145 ! 80 10 57.5876 ! 85 5 65.3596 TSYS CEDUNA TIMEOFF=0.0 FT=1.0 INDEX='L1','L2' / 211 20:00:00.0 49.5 49.5 211 20:30:00.0 49.5 49.5 211 21:00:00.0 49.5 49.5 211 21:30:00.0 49.5 49.5 211 22:00:00.0 49.5 49.5 211 22:30:00.0 49.5 49.5 211 23:00:00.0 49.5 49.5 211 23:30:00.0 49.5 49.5 212 00:00:00.0 49.5 49.5 212 00:30:00.0 49.5 49.5 212 01:00:00.0 49.5 49.5 212 01:30:00.0 49.5 49.5 212 02:00:00.0 49.5 49.5 212 02:30:00.0 49.5 49.5 / !******************************************* !******************************************* ! TSYS HARTRAO FT = 1.00 INDEX = 'L1', 'L2' / ! 999 00:00:00.0 100.0 100.0 ! 999 23:59:59.9 100.0 100.0 / ! ! ! HARTRAO Tsys data are from VS03z.tsys ! TSYS HARTRAO FT=1.0 TIMEOFF=0.0 INDEX= 'L1', 'L2' / 211 23:57:37 62.7 61.1 212 00:00:05 62.3 61.5 212 00:12:36 58.1 59.0 212 00:17:36 56.8 58.5 212 00:20:06 55.4 56.5 212 00:22:46 57.2 57.7 212 00:27:46 58.1 57.3 212 00:32:46 57.1 56.2 212 00:37:46 54.4 53.6 212 00:42:46 54.8 54.0 212 00:47:46 54.2 55.0 212 00:52:46 54.7 53.3 212 00:57:46 54.6 54.4 212 01:02:46 52.2 53.0 212 01:07:46 51.7 51.6 212 01:12:46 51.7 51.3 212 01:15:06 50.0 51.7 212 01:17:46 50.4 51.7 212 01:22:46 51.4 52.4 212 01:27:46 51.9 52.2 212 01:32:46 52.0 51.9 212 01:37:46 51.5 51.4 212 01:42:46 49.7 50.8 212 01:47:46 48.4 50.1 212 01:52:46 50.1 50.5 212 01:57:46 48.2 49.0 212 02:00:06 50.5 52.0 / !******************************************* !******************************************* ! HALCA nominal Tsys values ! TSYS VSOP_SC TIMEOFF=0.0 FT=1.0 INDEX='L1','L2' / 211 20:00:00.0 92.0 96.0 211 20:30:00.0 92.0 96.0 211 21:00:00.0 92.0 96.0 211 21:30:00.0 92.0 96.0 211 22:00:00.0 92.0 96.0 211 22:30:00.0 92.0 96.0 211 23:00:00.0 92.0 96.0 211 23:30:00.0 92.0 96.0 212 00:00:00.0 92.0 96.0 212 00:30:00.0 92.0 96.0 212 01:00:00.0 92.0 96.0 212 01:30:00.0 92.0 96.0 212 02:00:00.0 92.0 96.0 212 02:30:00.0 92.0 96.0 / !*******************************************