Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:12:27 -0700 (MST)
From: "VLBI Observers (Aspen only)" <vlbiobs@nrao.edu>
To: Phillip Hicks <phicks@nrao.edu>
cc: Scheduling Officer <schedsoc@nrao.edu>
Subject: Increase spacing of BM256 segments (fwd)
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:22:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Marscher <marscher@bu.edu>
To: vlbiobs@nrao.edu
Subject: Increase spacing of BM256 segments

Hi,

We just got the good word from the GLAST proposal review that we have been
awarded 8 epochs, 24 hours per epoch, of VLBA time to continue our
monitoring program BM256. (This was the maximum number of 24-hour segments
that we could request under the GLAST program.) We currently have in place
a program to observe in 12 24-hour segments, spaced roughly on month
apart.

Because the launch of GLAST has been delayed and is now scheduled for May
16, the review panel suggested that we stretch out the BM256 program so
that we can cover the first 3-4 months after the GLAST launch with BM256
before starting the 8 segments approved by the GLAST panel, thereby
covering nearly an entire year after the GLAST launch altogether.

So, we would like to request the following for BM256:

Increase the spacing of the next 3 segments to about 1.5 months, with the
next one observed around March 1, followed by mid-April and then ~June 1.
Then resume ~monthly monitoring if GLAST is launched on its current
schedule.

Please let me know if I need to take some action, e.g., revise the first
part of the SCHED file that describes the requested scheduling criteria.

Thanks and best wishes,
Al


Professor Alan Marscher
Department of Astronomy, Boston University
725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA
Phone: 1-617-353-5029; Fax: 1-617-353-5704