C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, 2007 1 Scientific Commissioning Plan Claire Chandler.

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C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Scientific Commissioning Plan Claire Chandler

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Scientific Commissioning Overview EVLA antennas undergo Electronics acceptance tests and Operations acceptance tests and are then added to the array for astronomy There are two levels of commissioning carried out by scientific staff: 1.Scientific staff work closely with electronics, hardware, and software personnel to verify that new antennas added to the array produce valid data; these tests are led by Rick Perley

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Staffing of EVLA commissioning effort FTE breakdown of Scientific Services for 2008 (note: does not include Rick Perley, or scientists in EVLA computing) EVLA Commissioning VLBA Development VLA Science Support1.0 VLBA Science Support0.8 VLA/VLBA User Support1.2 VLA/VLBA Joint Science Support (AIPS, scheduling)2.4 Software Support (CASA, E2E) Science Programs (student programs, colloquia) + New Initiatives0.6 Scientific Research Management & Planning0.6 Total1518.5

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Scientific Commissioning and Performance Evaluation Tests 2.Evaluation of antenna, receiver, and system performance to establish whether the requirements specified in the Project Book have been met –These tests have not yet started –One commissioning postdoc (Brigette Hesman) began end of FY07, one assistant scientist (Emmanuel Momjian) starts in November 2007 to lead the performance evaluations, one assistant scientist currently under offer with a start date in 2009 for scientific commissioning of the correlator

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Project Book Requirements The Project Book specifies target performances for: –Pointing (blind and referenced) –Accuracy of collimation offsets –Tracking stability –Subreflector positioning –Antenna slew and settle time –Antenna electrical performance (efficiencies, shapes, feed alignment, squint) –T sys and overall sensitivity in each receiver –Complex gain stability of each receiver –Linearity of power gain –Cross-polarization response –Bandpass amplitude and phase stability –Bandpass amplitude and phase structure

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Performance Tests Tests for each of the Requirements have been outlined in a memo from October 2005 (Chandler, Carilli, & Perley) but not yet implemented –The commissioning postdoc and assistant scientist will be developing these tests beginning October 1, 2007 –Many of the antenna performance tests will be handed to VLA Operations Division to be included in standard start-up procedures –Others of these tests (such as bandpass stability and shape) will require the correlator, or at least the prototype correlator, before they can be carried out

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Performance Tests, cont. –Pointing (blind and referenced) –Accuracy of collimation offsets –Tracking stability –Subreflector positioning –Antenna slew and settle time –Antenna electrical performance (efficiencies, shapes, feed alignment, squint) –T sys and overall sensitivity in each receiver –Complex gain stability of each receiver –Linearity of power gain –Cross-polarization response –Bandpass amplitude and phase stability –Bandpass amplitude and phase structure To be handed to Operations Require WIDAR correlator

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Correlator Commissioning On-the-sky tests for the prototype correlator are scheduled to begin Q Carried out in parallel with system integration Coincides with the move to D configuration –We are considering extending D config. as needed to ensure sufficient time for the correlator on-the-sky tests –We are considering other adjustments to the configurations to accommodate commissioning Current FTEs allocated to testing of electronics, etc., will transfer to correlator as needed in 2008

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Correlator Commissioning After acceptance of the prototype hardware basic correlator set-ups will be commissioned by NRAO staff – a “continuum” mode with full polarization to cover the full bandwidth of each receiver with the minimum number of channels –a “spectral line” mode for observations of multiple lines within a band Galactic Extra-galactic

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Correlator Commissioning Special modes will require experts from NRAO and the outside community to commission, e.g.: –pulsar gating –Solar observing –high time resolution –fast switching between correlator set-ups Timescales: –On-the-sky tests of the prototype, Q to Q –Commissioning of basic modes, Q to Q –Commissioning of special modes, Q to Q4 2010

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Commissioning and Early Science A 10-station, 1.5 GHz bandwidth prototype correlator is already 30% more sensitive for continuum observations than the full VLA The EVLA becomes very attractive for early science opportunities Combine the need for external experts to help with the correlator commissioning with a call for early science

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Resident Shared-Risk Observing Timeline (including proposal call) is tied to the acceptance of the correlator hardware Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q  Prototype acceptance tests Basic science modes commissioned Special science modes commissioned Call for “resident shared-risk observing” proposals Shared-risk observing begins

C. ChandlerEVLA Advisory Committee Meeting September 6-7, Preliminary rules Observing time will be allocated based on –excellence of proposed science –ability of science to highlight capabilities of EVLA –residence of an expert team member for a minimum of 3 months to help with commissioning students are welcome, but we need experienced radio astronomers Details of how NRAO staff can be part of this proposal call have yet to be defined The SAGE committee will be assisting with defining further the rules for this call