Transcript NA3 eVLBI Science Forum John Conway, EXPReS Board meeting, Utrecht, Jan 30th, 2008 Year 2 Activities  Major revision of rules for ‘call for proposals’ before June.

NA3 eVLBI Science
Forum
John Conway, EXPReS Board
meeting, Utrecht,
Jan 30th, 2008
Year 2 Activities
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Major revision of rules for ‘call for proposals’
before June 1st 2007 deadline
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More flexible ToO policy agreed with CBD,
May/Nov 2007
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Poster advertising campaign for Feb 1st deadline
(initiated by management team)
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Plan for eVLBI science conference, Nov 2008?
Proposal Mechanisms (I)
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‘Old Rules’ (before June 2007), a specific
proposal deadline 2 weeks before each run.
‘New Rules’, June 1st, Oct 1st, Feb 1st.
- General proposals, any purpose, inc
monitoring, allow spectral line,18,6,5,1.3cm
- Triggered proposals, to be activated within
24hrs of a run based on a trigger condition
being fulfilled
- Short obs (<3hrs)
Proposal Mechanisms (II)
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Target of Opportunity rules, agreed CBD
May 2007 (led by group headed by
Richard Porcas)- broadened slightly Nov
2007
New ideas for proposal rules discussed at
eVSAG – but leave for now.
Proposals/Scheduled 2007
January 2007: 1/1
Project year 1
 February 2007: 1/1
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March 2007: 1/2
Project year 2
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June 2007 (old rule): 1/2
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1st June 2007 (new rule): 1/2
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September 2007: 1/1 --> ToO
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1st October 2007: 1/1 (approved but not yet scheduled
as it is a triggered proposal)
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1st February 2008, ?/?
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Total so far 5/8 in Project year 2, (compared to 9/13 for last year)
2007 Observations
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RR001, PI: Rushton, observed 29 January
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RT001, PI: Tudose, observed 21 February
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RM001, PI: Marti, observed 28 March
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RL001, PI: Langevelde, observed 21 August
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RP007, PI: Paragi, observed 6 September, ToO
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RP006S, PI: Pandey, observed 6 September
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Also Australian obs of SN1987A, correlated at JIVE (not eEVN) , Tingay paper
in prep
Papers
(Proc. Burst, Pulses and Flickering: Wide-field monitoring of the
dynamic radio sky, 12-15 June 2007, Kerastari, Greece)
Z. Paragi, H.J. van Langevelde, A. Szomoru
Targeting transient phenomena with e-VLBI PoS(Dynamic2007)026, 2007
M. Pandey, Z. Paragi, P. Durouchoux, H. Bignall
’High resolution imaging of possible microquasar’, PoS(Dynamic2007)041
Rushton, R. Spencer Adaptive e-VLBI observations of radio emitting
’X-ray binaries’. PoS(Dynamic2007)043
(From planets to dark energy: the modern radio universe) proceedings:
Z. Paragi, Sz. Csizmadia, T. Borkovits, L. Mosoni, L. Sturmann, P. Abraham,
M. Garrett
‘ CHARA and e-VLBI observations of Algol’, PoS(MRU)122 (subitted)
Albert et al 2008, astro-ph 0801.3150 'Multi-wavelength (radio, X-ray
and gamma-ray) observations of the Gamma ray binary LSI +61 303‘, AJ in press
Albert et al 2008
A-Tel telegram Paragi et al
Future activities
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New face-to-face eVSAG meeting is a
deliverable, around May 2008.
Another deliverable, EXPReS Science conference,
optimum 4 months before project end,
November, in Crete?? Or later if we extend
project?
Should we extend scope slightly to ‘Real time
Long Baseline radio astronomy’ – allow
LOFAR, eMERLIN etc etc input as well EXPReS,
help eVLBI reach wider audience?