LBA Web pages

LBA05 ops meeting

Tasso Tzioumis

Web background

• Most of LBA web pages are old• No significant resources • Could spend a lot of effort• Must define:

– Minimum necessary information– Desirable information– Extras

• Must balance against available effort

LBA homepage

• Overview +• Documents +• Observing +• LBA Correlator +• Reports +

• People X ?• Research X ?• Schedules +• Meetings X ?• Other VLBI + ?more?

•New• * Status of Active Proposals• * Standard LBA modes (draft)• * Novice's Guide to Using the LBA (Postscript format)• * Note on Calibrators• * Casual VLBI Correlator Operator vacancy

Significant pages -1

• Documents– Telescope information - Updated

• More needed?

– Tape lists– Operational Guides – Software guides

• Observing & Correlator info

– What needs to be added?

Significant pages -2

• Scheduling– Scheduling information– Schedules

– Kept up-to-date (Jim, Chris, Simon)

• Reports– Included in original format directly.

FTP pages

• FTP pages exist for ALL observations– Schedules for observing– Observational logs– Correlator logs and plots

• Primary archive of metadata– available via Web

• Include FULL cal info?– ANTAB files– Scripts exist but need full implementation

Changes/additions?

• Mindful of “balance” - effort vs resources• Sensitivity calculator?

– Volunteer?

• Electronic proposals - ATNF will implement– Ensure suitable for VLBI

• More VLBI links?• Please input suggestions and/or volunteer to

implement• Critical items - I will implement?!