Session Notes for session: r4110 Prepared by Merri Sue Carter, USNO. (msc@maia.usno.navy.mil) =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R4108 Experiment description: NEOSA Scheduler: tbd Correlator: TBD Nominal start: 2004-057-18:30:00 Nominal end: 2004-058-18:45:00 Current yyyyddd: 2004057 (2004.16) ( 13062 MJD, THUR 26FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:53:49.03 (18:30: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 36.8m -8d 45.3 ========================================================== Note that ma is tagged. msc =========================================================== First observations Observation listing from file ./r4110.skd for experiment R4108 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ap Ft Kk Ma Ny Tc Wz CTA26 04057-183000| 158 158 | 3C371 04057-183000| 98 98 111 111| 1307+121 04057-183414| 173 173 | 0552+398 04057-183832| 98 98 98 98 98| 0119+115 04057-184115| 98 98| End of listing. =========================================================== Last observations Observation listing from file ./r4110.skd for experiment R4108 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ap Ft Kk Ma Ny Tc Wz 0048-097 04058-182602| 222 222 | End of listing. Observation listing from file ./r4110.skd for experiment R4108 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ap Ft Kk Ma Ny Tc Wz 2126-158 04058-180814| 102 102 | CTA26 04058-181421| 98 113 107 113| 0537-441 04058-181837| 165 165 | 2149+056 04058-182137| 98 98 | 1307+121 04058-182508| 169 169 | 0048-097 04058-182602| 222 222 | End of listing. =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r4110.skd for experiment R4108 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 1.6 Min = .0 Max = 32.5 (Baseline Ny-Wz on CTA26 ) RMS = 3.3 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ap=ALGOPARK Ft=FORTLEZA Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Wz=WETTZELL Ap Ft Kk Ma Ny Tc Wz Avg % obs. time: 25 22 41 10 43 18 39 28 % cal. time: 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 % slew time: 56 20 9 7 14 1 9 16 % idle time: 15 56 46 81 39 78 49 52 total # scans: 180 105 165 75 209 54 204 141 # scans/hour : 7 4 6 3 8 2 8 5.9 Avg scan (sec): 124 181 219 120 181 303 166 184 Total GBytes: 380 316 596 154 628 266 567 415 # of tapes : .8 2.8 1.3 .3 1.4 .7 1.3 tape change times (hhmm): 0000 0400 1224 0000 1156 0000 1415 0000 1222 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ap Ft Kk Ma Ny Tc Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Ap|180 58 115 32 108 23 98 434 Ft| 105 22 39 42 38 76 275 Kk| 165 17 101 26 61 342 Ma| 75 62 2 75 227 Ny| 209 6 168 487 Tc| 54 17 112 Wz| 204 495 Number of 2-station scans: 136 Number of 3-station scans: 95 Number of 4-station scans: 60 Number of 5-station scans: 33 Number of 6-station scans: 5 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 329 1186 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSXR4 SX Recording mode setup for: ALGOPARK KOKEE MATERA NYALES20 TIGOCONC WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel C 112.000 Mbits 56.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 2 14(*0) 28 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 125.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.7 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 8.000 6.000 14.000 Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel C 112.000 Mbits 56.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 2 14(*0) 28 270.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 125.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.7 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 8.000 6.000 14.000 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ap ALGOPARK 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Ft FORTLEZA 8700feet (Thick) 33333. (Low ) 12 Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ap Ft Kk Ma Ny Tc Ap Ft Kk Ma Ny Tc Ft 20 Ft 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12