Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1162 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2005.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1162 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-045-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-046-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005045 (2005.12) ( 13416 MJD, MON. 14FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 2:39:14.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 53.4m -12d 48.9 =========================================================== 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 0602+673 05045-170000| 40 40| 1144-379 05045-170000| 95 95 | 2318+049 05045-170000| 200 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz 2318+049 05046-164514| 48 48| 1606+106 05046-164637| 40 40 | 1424-418 05046-164805| 122 200 200 | 1417+385 05046-164815| 124 124 | 2255-282 05046-165136| 72 72 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1162.skd for experiment R1162 (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 = 46.5 (Baseline Gc-Tc on 0727-115) RMS = 8.5 Total time: 1432 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: 42 31 28 39 41 43 37 37 % cal. time: 5 3 3 4 3 4 4 4 % slew time: 29 51 47 21 10 19 14 27 % idle time: 22 13 21 34 44 31 43 30 total # scans: 472 286 281 415 275 419 375 360 # scans/hour : 19.8 12.0 11.8 17.4 11.5 17.6 15.7 15.1 Avg scan (sec): 77 95 87 82 128 90 87 92 Total GBytes: 1486 1081 983 1378 1370 1510 1309 1303 Total GB(M5): 1321 961 874 1225 1217 1342 1164 1158 # of tapes : 2.8 1.8 1.6 2.2 2.2 2.4 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0152 0640 0844 0457 0429 0258 0516 1041 0000 0000 1505 1453 1241 1551 Total number of tapes: 15.2 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8107.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|472 4 44 261 34 245 199 787 Hh| 286 97 0 86 50 122 359 Ho| 281 127 66 8 17 359 Kk| 415 98 149 75 710 Tc| 275 137 34 455 Wf| 419 171 760 Wz| 375 618 Number of 2-station scans: 686 Number of 3-station scans: 264 Number of 4-station scans: 86 Number of 5-station scans: 3 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1039 2024 =========================================================== 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 0919-260 1.00 1.50 .99 20 16 0502+049 1.00 1.50 .89 18 14 1549-790 1.00 1.50 .49 10 10 0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.43 29 15 VR422201 1.00 1.50 1.19 24 14 1236+077 1.00 1.50 1.43 29 17 0829+046 1.00 1.50 1.04 21 9 1448+762 1.00 1.50 1.24 25 9 1508-055 1.00 1.50 1.19 24 14 1600+335 1.00 1.50 1.19 24 18 Total 11.07 224 136 =========================================================== 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