Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1057 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2003.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1057 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2003-041-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2003-042-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2003041 (2003.11) ( 12681 MJD, MON. 10FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 2:21:26.65 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 35.7m -14d 19.4 =========================================================== Hobart did not participate in this session because Hobart has not been upgraded to Mark 5 as yet. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 2145+067 03041-170000| 51 51 42| 1357+769 03041-170000| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 1749+096 03042-160640| 190 103 190 190 | 1741-038 03042-161033| 40 40 40 | 1923+210 03042-161211| 51 51 | 0106+013 03042-161224| 40 40 40| 1300+580 03042-161445| 40 57 57 46| 1128+385 03042-161754| 40 62 62| OQ208 03042-161939| 40 48 48 | 3C418 03042-162146| 40 40 40 | 1739+522 03042-162311| 65 134 104 134| 0602+673 03042-162615| 62 154 154 95| 0133+476 03042-162940| 40 40 40 40| 2136+141 03042-163209| 40 40 40 40| 2234+282 03042-163335| 40 40 40| 0642+449 03042-163631| 40 40 40| 1357+769 03042-163813| 40 40 40 40| 0552+398 03042-164006| 40 40 40| 4C39.25 03042-164148| 40 44 44| 1803+784 03042-164352| 40 40 40 40 40| NRAO512 03042-164534| 40 57 57 | 1044+719 03042-164723| 48 48 | 2243-123 03042-164744| 40 40 40| 0454+844 03042-164854| 96 96 | 0119+115 03042-164913| 40 40| 2201+315 03042-165152| 45 45 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1057.skd for experiment R1057 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 4.8 Min = .0 Max = 22.7 (Baseline Kk-Wf on 0059+581) RMS = 5.8 Total time: 1432 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 37 36 15 16 42 35 30 % cal. time: 6 5 1 1 5 5 4 % slew time: 30 19 15 3 22 14 17 % idle time: 25 38 67 78 29 44 47 # of tapes : 2.1 2.1 .9 .9 2.4 2.0 total # scans: 561 468 168 101 495 430 370 # scans/hour : 23 19 7 4 20 18 15.4 Avg scan (sec): 57 67 77 143 73 71 81 tape change times (hhmm): 0429 0550 0000 0000 0313 0459 1542 1638 0000 0000 1311 0000 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|561 436 114 37 359 320 1266 Kk| 468 66 55 287 197 1041 Ma| 168 32 136 165 513 Tc| 101 83 45 252 Wf| 495 360 1225 Wz| 430 1087 Number of 2-station scans: 231 Number of 3-station scans: 238 Number of 4-station scans: 187 Number of 5-station scans: 49 Number of 6-station scans: 9 Total # of scans, observations: 714 2692 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX4F 4F Recording mode setup for: GILCREEK Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel VLBA1:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 8:1 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: KOKEE Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel VLBA1:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 16:1 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: MATERA TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 16 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Gc GILCREEK 17400feet (Thin ) 56700. (High) Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56700. (High) Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) Wf WESTFORD 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 5) Gc Kk Ma Tc Wf Gc Kk Ma Tc Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Tc 20 20 20 Tc 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15