Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1101 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 R1101 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: WACO Nominal start: 2003-349-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2003-350-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2003349 (2003.96) ( 12989 MJD, MON. 15DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 22:35:45.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 30.8m -23d 16.1 =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== The following sources were included for research purposes: 1608+243 (51 observations), 0354+231 (58 observations), 0025+197 (38 observations), 0834+250 (36 observations), 1756+237 (38 observations) =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 1606+106 03349-170000| 174 109 174 111 | CTA26 03349-170000| 81 81 51| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 1519-273 03350-164147| 107 102 126 126 | 0528+134 03350-164209| 53 53 | 1739+522 03350-164526| 40 43 43 40 40| 3C371 03350-164738| 51 50 82 82 72| 0727-115 03350-165046| 40 40 | 0823+033 03350-165209| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1101.skd for experiment R1101 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.4 Min = .0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Kk-Wz on 2318+049) RMS = 8.3 Total time: 1432 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: 36 17 33 34 21 39 33 31 % cal. time: 4 2 4 4 1 4 4 3 % slew time: 28 35 19 31 4 18 13 21 % idle time: 29 44 42 29 71 36 49 43 total # scans: 426 176 394 362 134 382 364 319 # scans/hour : 17 7 16 15 5 16 15 13.3 Avg scan (sec): 73 86 73 82 140 89 78 88 Total GBytes: 1141 542 1053 1070 647 1218 1030 957 # of 8-packs: 1.2 .6 1.1 1.1 .7 1.3 1.1 # of tapes : 2.1 1.0 1.9 1.9 1.2 2.2 1.9 tape change times (hhmm): 0408 0000 0739 0650 1309 0356 0716 1627 0000 0000 0000 0000 1504 0000 Total number of tapes: 12.2 Total GBytes recorded: 6703.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|426 67 315 168 44 267 190 1051 Ho| 176 123 35 33 12 23 293 Kk| 394 91 58 201 119 907 Ma| 362 46 213 318 871 Tc| 134 100 43 324 Wf| 382 224 1017 Wz| 364 917 Number of 2-station scans: 291 Number of 3-station scans: 228 Number of 4-station scans: 125 Number of 5-station scans: 86 Number of 6-station scans: 7 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 737 2690 =========================================================== 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 Speed ID Station Tape length Speed Gc GILCREEK 17400feet (Thin ) 56700. (High) 14 Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 14 Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56700. (High) 14 Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 14 Wf WESTFORD 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 14 Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 14 =========================================================== 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