Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1163 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 R1163 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-052-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-053-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005052 (2005.14) ( 13423 MJD, MON. 21FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 3: 6:50.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 20.4m -10d 20.5 =========================================================== 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 Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0235+164 05052-170000| 75 137 137 126| 1749+096 05052-170000| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0919-260 05053-164613| 40 40 | OK290 05053-164744| 40 40 | 0528+134 05053-164802| 40 40| 1749+096 05053-164826| 103 103 | 1351-018 05053-164950| 40 40 | 3C274 05053-165118| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1163.skd for experiment R1163 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.4 Min = .0 Max = 130.9 (Baseline Gc-Sv on 0656+082) RMS = 12.0 Total time: 1432 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ho=HOBART26 Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 36 29 28 37 31 42 31 33 % cal. time: 5 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 % slew time: 30 52 53 9 23 20 12 29 % idle time: 28 15 13 50 38 32 50 32 total # scans: 457 309 421 258 509 423 408 397 # scans/hour : 19.1 12.9 17.6 10.8 21.3 17.7 17.1 16.7 Avg scan (sec): 68 81 57 123 53 86 67 76 Total GBytes: 1283 1014 1020 1238 1167 1469 1132 1189 Total GB(M5): 1140 902 906 1100 1037 1305 1006 1057 # of tapes : 2.3 1.6 1.6 2.1 1.9 2.4 1.8 tape change times (hhmm): 0314 0738 0807 0431 0636 0303 0734 1330 0000 0000 1642 0000 1344 0000 Total number of tapes: 13.7 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7401.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|457 35 178 43 267 243 146 912 Ho| 309 6 94 206 18 11 370 Sv| 421 35 151 150 315 835 Tc| 258 13 137 49 371 Ts| 509 111 116 864 Wf| 423 184 843 Wz| 408 821 Number of 2-station scans: 722 Number of 3-station scans: 242 Number of 4-station scans: 85 Number of 5-station scans: 55 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1104 2508 =========================================================== 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: HOBART26 TSUKUB32 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 Recording mode setup for: SVETLOE 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1039+811 1.00 1.50 1.28 32 8 2000-330 1.00 1.50 .36 9 9 0754+100 1.00 1.50 1.56 39 15 0919-260 1.00 1.50 .72 18 18 NRAO140 1.00 1.50 1.56 39 16 VR422201 1.00 1.50 1.48 37 11 1226+373 1.00 1.50 1.08 27 17 0202-172 1.00 1.50 1.40 35 23 1655+077 1.00 1.50 1.59 40 18 1145-071 1.00 1.50 1.32 33 22 Total 12.32 309 157 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF 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 Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Sv SVETLOE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ts TSUKUB32 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 Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Sv 20 20 Sv 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15