Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1109 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 R1109 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2004-040-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2004-041-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2004040 (2004.11) ( 13045 MJD, MON. 9FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 2:16:32.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 30.8m -14d 43.4 =========================================================== 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 1451-375 04040-170000| 190 172 190 | 0059+581 04040-170000| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 1741-038 04041-163747| 146 40 146 40 | 1234-504 04041-163933| 40 40 | 1611+343 04041-164200| 40 40 40 | 3C418 04041-164339| 74 72 74 | 0511-220 04041-164445| 53 53| 0743+259 04041-164708| 130 130| 0727-115 04041-165001| 40 40 40| 0235+164 04041-165138| 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1109.skd for experiment R1109 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.3 Min = .0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0008-421) RMS = 9.3 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: 35 21 40 12 21 39 30 28 % cal. time: 5 2 4 1 1 4 3 3 % slew time: 28 36 20 11 4 20 13 19 % idle time: 30 39 33 74 72 35 52 48 total # scans: 442 197 424 115 126 401 319 289 # scans/hour : 18 8 17 4 5 16 13 12.0 Avg scan (sec): 69 94 82 90 146 84 83 92 Total GBytes: 1130 656 1248 371 630 1208 951 884 # of 8-packs: 1.2 .7 1.3 .4 .7 1.3 1.0 # of tapes : 2.3 1.2 2.2 .7 1.2 2.2 1.7 tape change times (hhmm): 0234 1300 0511 0000 1312 0354 0807 1334 0000 1452 0000 0000 1507 0000 Total number of tapes: 11.6 Total GBytes recorded: 6196.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|442 64 307 68 41 273 203 956 Ho| 197 144 12 48 10 28 306 Kk| 424 33 71 198 113 866 Ma| 115 24 94 104 335 Tc| 126 76 37 297 Wf| 401 249 900 Wz| 319 734 Number of 2-station scans: 291 Number of 3-station scans: 249 Number of 4-station scans: 129 Number of 5-station scans: 25 Number of 6-station scans: 9 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 703 2197 =========================================================== 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) 12 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