Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1149 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2004.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1149 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2004-320-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2004-321-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2004320 (2004.88) ( 13325 MJD, MON. 15NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20:40:28.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 25.2m -18d 41.5 =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:00 U.T. to 20:00 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this two hour period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0602+673 04320-170000| 54 54 40| 1611+343 04320-170000| 55 82 82 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1124-186 04321-164623| 200 200 | 0556+238 04321-164647| 40 40 | 0235+164 04321-164832| 40 40 40| 0201+113 04321-164955| 40 46 46| 1219+044 04321-165029| 98 98 | 0119+115 04321-165124| 40 40 40| 2234+282 04321-165332| 42 42| OJ287 04321-165345| 40 40 40 | 2121+053 04321-165457| 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1149.skd for experiment R1149 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.9 Min = .0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1958-179) RMS = 11.3 Total time: 1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 44 22 33 35 44 36 36 % cal. time: 5 3 2 5 5 4 4 % slew time: 30 15 8 21 21 13 18 % idle time: 19 59 55 37 28 46 41 total # scans: 503 262 232 485 432 381 382 # scans/hour : 21.0 11.0 9.7 20.3 18.1 15.9 16.0 Avg scan (sec): 75 74 124 63 89 81 84 Total GBytes: 1553 793 1122 1283 1542 1254 1258 Total GB(M5): 1381 705 997 1140 1371 1115 1119 # of tapes : 2.9 1.3 1.9 2.1 2.4 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 0145 1310 0649 0454 0308 0606 0939 0000 0000 1639 1255 0000 Total number of tapes: 12.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6711.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|503 197 69 378 217 152 1013 Ny| 262 19 196 121 164 697 Tc| 232 25 189 80 382 Ts| 485 109 186 894 Wf| 432 229 865 Wz| 381 811 Number of 2-station scans: 420 Number of 3-station scans: 250 Number of 4-station scans: 126 Number of 5-station scans: 39 Number of 6-station scans: 1 Total # of scans, observations: 836 2331 =========================================================== 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: NYALES20 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 Recording mode setup for: TSUKUB32 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1402+044 1.00 1.50 .47 11 9 1215+303 1.00 1.50 1.50 35 11 0159+723 1.00 1.50 1.93 45 17 1738+476 1.00 1.50 1.50 35 7 1347+539 1.00 1.50 .60 14 14 0420+417 1.00 1.50 1.33 31 7 0735+178 1.00 1.50 1.72 40 13 1150+812 1.00 1.50 1.03 24 4 0458+138 1.00 1.50 .82 19 17 0109+224 1.00 1.50 1.46 34 15 Total 12.36 288 114 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 1.00 FFTFF F =========================================================== Major Options SkyCov Yes Min_Between 20 Best% 60.0 Last_Hrs 1.00 Add_ps 30.00 Obs_Wts SNRwt =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Gc GILCREEK 17400feet (Thin ) 56700 (HIGH ) 12 Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ts TSUKUB32 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 Ny Tc Ts Wf Gc Ny Tc Ts Wf Ny 20 Ny 15 Tc 15 15 Tc 12 12 Ts 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 12 15 15