Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1157 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 R1157 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-010-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-011-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005010 (2005.03) ( 13381 MJD, MON. 10JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 0:21:15.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 29.0m -21d 51.9 =========================================================== 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 Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz 2318+049 05010-170000| 200 200 200 200| OJ287 05010-170000| 53 60 60 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz CTA26 05011-164234| 40 40| NRAO512 05011-164504| 40 84 61 84| 1815-553 05011-164534| 200 200 | 3C418 05011-164716| 67 74 94 94| 4C39.25 05011-164946| 40 40| 0749+540 05011-165109| 50 62 115 115| 0059+581 05011-165359| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1157.skd for experiment R1157 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.8 Min = .0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Hh-Wf on 1424-418) RMS = 8.8 Total time: 1434 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 21 32 30 40 41 39 36 34 % cal. time: 2 3 3 4 2 3 3 3 % slew time: 15 48 44 18 10 16 12 23 % idle time: 60 16 22 36 44 39 47 38 total # scans: 218 266 275 360 257 336 308 288 # scans/hour : 9.1 11.1 11.5 15.1 10.8 14.1 12.9 12.1 Avg scan (sec): 86 104 94 96 140 101 102 103 Total GBytes: 759 1091 1030 1379 1388 1350 1243 1178 Total GB(M5): 675 970 916 1226 1234 1200 1104 1047 # of tapes : 1.4 1.8 1.6 2.2 2.3 2.1 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 1010 0610 0919 0504 0312 0455 0547 0000 0000 0000 1505 1416 1534 0000 Total number of tapes: 13.5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7328.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|218 5 24 165 31 175 123 523 Hh| 266 87 0 89 52 140 373 Ho| 275 147 92 12 11 373 Kk| 360 101 182 89 684 Tc| 257 103 47 463 Wf| 336 178 702 Wz| 308 588 Number of 2-station scans: 388 Number of 3-station scans: 279 Number of 4-station scans: 93 Number of 5-station scans: 7 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 767 1853 =========================================================== 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: HARTRAO KOKEE 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: 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1555+001 1.00 1.50 1.46 27 12 1038+52B 1.00 1.50 1.57 29 8 0003+380 1.00 1.50 1.62 30 14 2355-106 1.00 1.50 .86 16 12 0859-140 1.00 1.50 1.03 19 11 NRAO190 1.00 1.50 1.46 27 10 1038+064 1.00 1.50 1.30 24 8 CL4 1.00 1.50 1.67 31 11 1749+701 1.00 1.50 1.51 28 6 1244-255 1.00 1.50 .97 18 14 Total 13.44 249 106 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT FF =========================================================== 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 Hh HARTRAO 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Kk KOKEE 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 Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 Kk 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