Australia Telescope Compact Array

SCHED

The interface between the observer and the telescope is the program caobs. Control information for caobs (positions, frequencies, scan lengths etc.) is provided by a schedule file which is generated by the CABBScheduler. Clicking on the link will start the scheduler in your browser (at least IE, Firefox, Safari supported). The CABBScheduler is integrated with the calibrator database and velocity calculator tools and lets you:

specify calibrators by typing part of the calibrator name
search for calibrators near your program source and view their characteristics
select sources from a personal catalog on your machine
calculate CABB zoom band channels (when they become available) from velocity, spectral line and date/time.

Schedules are saved to the /atca/sched area on xbones. You will need to be on the CSIRO network or have an ATNF unix account to access the tool.
The CABBScheduler is still under development (keeping up with new CABB modes), if you find the latest version above doesn't behave as expected, let us know and try the previous or old version. For testing purposes, the next version is available too.

More information

At some point a section will appear in the users guide describing CABBScheduler in detail. It operates in a very similar way to the old ATCA schedulers and the documentation for those is left here for reference until the updated guide is available.
If you are unfamiliar with atcasched, please read the new user section
The basic principles of atcasched are outlined here
A summary of all atcasched commands
A summary of all atcasched keywords
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Some known bugs
ATCA Users Guide sections on scheduling and atcasched

Special scheduling modes

Mosaicing
Frequency switching
Pulsar bin mode
High time resolution bin mode
Observing solar system objects & Earth orbiting satellites
Reference pointing

Ancillary Files

Feedback

Please send your suggestions and bug reports to Mark Wieringa (Mark.Wieringa@csiro.au).

Original: Mark Wieringa (20-Apr-1998)
Modified: Mark Wieringa (01-APR-2009)