Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1095 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 R1095 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: HAYSTACK Nominal start: 2003-307-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2003-308-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2003307 (2003.84) ( 12947 MJD, MON. 3NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:50:10.38 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 33.7m -15d 5.0 =========================================================== 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 1606+106 03307-170000| 190 190 111 190| 0808+019 03307-170000| 89 89 55 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 1741-038 03308-163946| 126 126 52 100| OJ287 03308-163946| 40 40 | 0727-115 03308-164146| 40 40 40 | 0003-066 03308-164348| 40 40| 0552+398 03308-164522| 40 40 40| 2318+049 03308-164657| 95 95| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1095.skd for experiment R1095 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 4.2 Min = .0 Max = 28.6 (Baseline Gc-Ho on 0727-115) RMS = 5.4 Total time: 1428 minutes ( 23.8 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: 35 14 35 34 20 40 30 30 % cal. time: 5 1 4 4 1 4 4 3 % slew time: 28 31 21 33 5 20 13 22 % idle time: 29 52 37 27 73 34 50 43 # of tapes : 2.0 .9 2.0 1.9 1.1 2.2 1.7 total # scans: 474 158 423 393 126 422 388 340 # scans/hour : 19 6 17 16 5 17 16 14.2 Avg scan (sec): 64 79 71 74 137 82 68 82 tape change times (hhmm): 0500 0000 0659 0526 1430 0350 0747 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1434 0000 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|474 54 353 190 44 310 203 1154 Ho| 158 107 34 29 9 18 251 Kk| 423 96 58 224 128 966 Ma| 393 45 243 349 957 Tc| 126 92 41 309 Wf| 422 250 1128 Wz| 388 989 Number of 2-station scans: 299 Number of 3-station scans: 238 Number of 4-station scans: 149 Number of 5-station scans: 88 Number of 6-station scans: 6 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 780 2877 =========================================================== 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