Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1160 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 R1160 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-031-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-032-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005031 (2005.09) ( 13402 MJD, MON. 31JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 1:44: 3.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 20h 57.6m -17d 12.8 =========================================================== 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 Hh Mc Sh Wf Wz 0749+540 05031-170000| 108 200 200 | CTA26 05031-170000| 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Mc Sh Wf Wz 0859-140 05032-164315| 165 165 | 0743+259 05032-164331| 40 40| 1726+455 05032-164647| 40 40 40 40| OK290 05032-164834| 117 117| 1803+784 05032-164846| 40 40 40 | 1128+385 05032-165348| 58 117 117| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1160.skd for experiment R1160 (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 = 72.0 (Baseline Hh-Wf on 1424-418) RMS = 7.8 Total time: 1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Hh=HARTRAO Mc=MEDICINA Sh=SESHAN25 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Hh Mc Sh Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 17 23 31 31 33 36 28 % cal. time: 2 2 4 2 3 4 3 % slew time: 13 46 42 39 15 12 28 % idle time: 66 27 21 26 46 46 39 total # scans: 231 233 425 240 310 396 305 # scans/hour : 9.7 9.7 17.8 10.0 13.0 16.6 12.8 Avg scan (sec): 66 85 64 112 94 78 83 Total GBytes: 632 799 1135 1056 1162 1262 1008 Total GB(M5): 562 710 1009 938 1033 1122 896 # of tapes : 1.2 1.4 1.9 1.8 1.9 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 1419 1221 0617 0747 0614 0551 Total number of tapes: 10.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5376.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Mc Sh Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|231 14 165 123 182 168 652 Hh| 233 134 79 63 107 397 Mc| 425 124 192 344 959 Sh| 240 93 114 533 Wf| 310 194 724 Wz| 396 927 Number of 2-station scans: 238 Number of 3-station scans: 192 Number of 4-station scans: 142 Number of 5-station scans: 43 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 615 2096 =========================================================== 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 2 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 9.956 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO MEDICINA SESHAN25 WESTFORD WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 2 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 9.956 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1502+036 1.00 1.50 .95 20 5 0859-140 1.00 1.50 .57 12 5 0521-365 1.00 1.50 .43 9 7 2312-319 1.00 1.50 .72 15 9 0917+449 1.00 1.50 2.19 46 13 1937-101 1.00 1.50 .67 14 14 2021+614 1.00 1.50 2.00 42 8 1459+480 1.00 1.50 .91 19 15 0149+218 1.00 1.50 1.29 27 10 2209+236 1.00 1.50 1.10 23 7 Total 10.83 227 93 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF 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 Hh HARTRAO 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Mc MEDICINA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Sh SESHAN25 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 Mc Sh Wf Gc Hh Mc Sh Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Mc 20 20 Mc 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15