Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1159 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 R1159 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2005-024-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-025-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005024 (2005.07) ( 13395 MJD, MON. 24JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 1:16:27.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 20h 28.6m -19d 3.6 =========================================================== 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 1749+096 05024-170000| 91 54 124 124 | CTA26 05024-170000| 40 40| 0454-234 05024-170303| 40 45 45| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz 1334-127 05025-164352| 40 40 40 | 2318+049 05025-164456| 200 200 200 | 1739+522 05025-164617| 40 40 40| 2255-282 05025-165053| 42 42 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1159.skd for experiment R1159 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.0 Min = .0 Max = 60.8 (Baseline Ho-Tc on 1741-038) RMS = 9.5 Total time: 1431 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: 20 31 31 40 43 44 34 35 % cal. time: 2 3 3 4 3 4 4 3 % slew time: 16 52 44 19 11 20 14 25 % idle time: 59 13 20 35 41 29 45 35 total # scans: 255 293 276 390 286 428 398 332 # scans/hour : 10.7 12.3 11.6 16.4 12.0 17.9 16.7 13.9 Avg scan (sec): 70 91 97 89 131 89 75 91 Total GBytes: 739 1071 1067 1400 1461 1538 1221 1214 Total GB(M5): 657 952 948 1244 1299 1367 1085 1079 # of tapes : 1.4 1.8 1.7 2.2 2.4 2.4 1.9 tape change times (hhmm): 1125 0615 0747 0507 0314 0311 0630 0000 0000 0000 1448 1345 1251 0000 Total number of tapes: 13.8 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7555.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|255 3 24 171 40 202 153 593 Hh| 293 85 0 76 51 154 369 Ho| 276 140 77 11 7 344 Kk| 390 98 192 104 705 Tc| 286 141 47 479 Wf| 428 216 813 Wz| 398 681 Number of 2-station scans: 545 Number of 3-station scans: 283 Number of 4-station scans: 88 Number of 5-station scans: 7 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 923 1992 =========================================================== 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 1502+036 1.00 1.50 1.41 28 15 0521-365 1.00 1.50 .70 14 12 1604-333 1.00 1.50 .30 6 6 0611+131 1.00 1.50 .65 13 7 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 1.15 23 10 0530-727 1.00 1.50 .40 8 8 Total 4.62 92 58 =========================================================== 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