Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:06:41 -0700 (MST)
From: gtaylor <gtaylor@aoc.nrao.edu>
To: analysts@nrao.edu
cc: "Roger W. Romani" <rwr@astro.stanford.edu>,
   Scheduling Officer <schedsoc@aoc.nrao.edu>,
   Jim Ulvestad <julvesta@aoc.nrao.edu>, Greg Taylor <gtaylor@aoc.nrao.edu>
Subject: class-associated observing time

Hi Meri et al.,

   Attatched please find br104.key.  This dynamic file is set to 
run at 128 Mbps for 4 hours centered on 1100 PT LST.  Please
schedule sometime between April 1 and April 15.  Thanks,
                                              - Greg

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Scheduling Officer wrote:

> Sure, Roger, this should work fine.  Please use proposal code BR 104
> and reply with your dynamic key file when it is ready.  FYI, NRAO 
> Newsletter No. 100 has more recent program information. Cheers.  - Joan
> 
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> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Roger W. Romani wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Joan, Barry, Jim et al.,
> > 
> >    We would like to introduce VLBI observing and imaging techniques to an
> > upper-level undergraduate class Physics 100 'Introduction to Observational and
> > Laboratory Astronomy' to be taught here at Stanford University Spring, 2005
> > quarter.  We may also have a few graduate students from Physics 301
> > `Astrophysics Laboratory' participate. For this purpose we would like 
> > to carry out a single VLBA observing run of 3-4 hours duration.  Given 
> > the short duration of the quarter (10 weeks) we think it would be best to
> > pre-select the sources and to have the observations occur near the beginning 
> > of the course (April 1-15, 2005).  
> > 
> >    The observing plan would be to image ~6 compact, flat-spectrum
> > sources from VLA project AR555 at 8.4 GHz. All sources have good
> > positions derived from recent VLA A configuration observations.  The
> > sources have bright (>100mJy) compact cores, but show interesting
> > structure on arcsecond scales. The class as a whole would watch their
> > targets being observed with the VLBA, learn how to calibrate the data,
> > and then the imaging for each source would be done in teams.  Students
> > would also make comparisons between the VLBA images and the existing
> > VLA images.  The projects would be written up as lab reports, similar
> > to the other (typically optical) labs done during the quarter.  We
> > expect approximately 2 hours of lectures and 10 hours of lab time to
> > be devoted to this project.
> > 
> >    Please let us know if this project meets with the approval of 
> > the scheduling committee under the auspices of the program 
> > outlined in NRAO Newsletter No. 87.  Regards,
> >                                           Roger Romani
> >                                           Greg Taylor
> >