Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1088 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 R1088 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2003-258-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2003-259-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2003258 (2003.71) ( 12898 MJD, MON. 15SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:36:59.16 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 32.2m 2d 59.9 =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:00 U.T. to 20:00 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this two hour period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz OJ287 03258-170000| 190 190 190 190 | 3C446 03258-170000| 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0607-157 03259-164314| 58 47 58 | NRAO512 03259-164346| 63 114 114 48| 1606+106 03259-164657| 187 187 114 181| 0718+793 03259-164712| 40 40 | 0552+398 03259-165011| 40 40 40 | 0955+476 03259-165221| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1088.skd for experiment R1088 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 4.4 Min = .0 Max = 22.7 (Baseline Tc-Wf on 0552+398) RMS = 5.5 Total time: 1433 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 33 15 33 34 23 39 30 30 % cal. time: 5 2 4 4 1 4 4 4 % slew time: 28 34 21 33 5 19 13 22 % idle time: 32 48 40 27 69 35 50 43 # of tapes : 1.9 .9 1.9 1.9 1.3 2.2 1.8 total # scans: 459 173 419 405 144 419 403 346 # scans/hour : 19 7 17 16 6 17 16 14.4 Avg scan (sec): 62 78 68 72 139 81 65 80 tape change times (hhmm): 0548 0000 0651 0537 1126 0344 0724 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1459 0000 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|459 61 343 194 49 305 211 1163 Ho| 173 114 36 37 12 22 282 Kk| 419 101 67 233 134 992 Ma| 405 50 249 366 996 Tc| 144 103 47 353 Wf| 419 257 1159 Wz| 403 1037 Number of 2-station scans: 274 Number of 3-station scans: 245 Number of 4-station scans: 157 Number of 5-station scans: 95 Number of 6-station scans: 6 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 777 2991 =========================================================== 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: HOBART26 Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 NONE 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) Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (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 3) Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15