Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1168 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 R1168 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-087-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-088-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005087 (2005.24) ( 13458 MJD, MON. 28MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 5:24:50.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 0h 29.8m 3d 13.1 =========================================================== There is no intensive session scheduled for today. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz 0607-157 05087-170000| 40 40 40 40| 1300+580 05087-170000| 130 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz 3C446 05088-160611| 79 125 125 | CTA26 05088-160618| 40 40 40| 0202+149 05088-160906| 200 200 68 155| 2201+315 05088-161224| 40 46 46| 3C418 05088-161358| 132 96 200 200 200| 1308+326 05088-161807| 67 57 67| 0059+581 05088-162137| 40 40 40 40| 1417+385 05088-162401| 200 200 | 1044+719 05088-162409| 40 40 40| 0138-097 05088-162812| 200 75 200 200| 0955+476 05088-163355| 40 40 40| 0507+179 05088-163448| 200 200 | 0805+410 05088-163518| 148 161 161| 0552+398 05088-164031| 87 128 40 70 128 40| 0656+082 05088-164242| 40 40| 2201+315 05088-164400| 200 200 | OK290 05088-164504| 40 40| OJ287 05088-164629| 40 40 40| 0014+813 05088-164827| 118 118 | 0743+259 05088-164900| 106 45 106| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1168.skd for experiment R1168 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 6.8 Min = .0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Sh-Tc on 0727-115) RMS = 8.2 Total time: 1430 minutes ( 23.8 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Hh=HARTRAO Mc=MEDICINA Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 42 28 35 24 16 45 43 33 % cal. time: 4 2 4 2 1 3 4 3 % slew time: 22 33 38 31 3 17 12 22 % idle time: 30 35 21 41 78 32 39 39 total # scans: 356 188 382 177 101 342 382 275 # scans/hour : 14.9 7.9 16.0 7.4 4.2 14.4 16.0 11.6 Avg scan (sec): 103 131 79 119 139 115 96 111 Total GBytes: 1456 956 1230 824 544 1540 1469 1146 Total GB(M5): 1294 849 1094 732 484 1369 1306 1019 # of tapes : 2.8 1.6 2.0 1.4 .9 2.5 2.4 tape change times (hhmm): 0139 0846 0532 1146 0000 0223 0311 1036 0000 0000 0000 0000 1213 1339 Total number of tapes: 13.5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7131.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|356 9 147 131 36 255 170 748 Hh| 188 151 27 47 50 121 405 Mc| 382 97 44 150 310 899 Sh| 177 1 62 119 437 Tc| 101 80 33 241 Wf| 342 164 761 Wz| 382 917 Number of 2-station scans: 243 Number of 3-station scans: 232 Number of 4-station scans: 115 Number of 5-station scans: 56 Number of 6-station scans: 1 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 647 2204 =========================================================== 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 MEDICINA SESHAN25 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 1614+051 1.00 1.50 1.32 29 7 0138-097 1.00 1.50 1.50 33 12 1354+195 1.00 1.50 1.18 26 12 OW-015 1.00 1.50 .73 16 12 0507+179 1.00 1.50 .82 18 16 3C309.1 1.00 1.50 1.59 35 5 0010+405 1.00 1.50 1.41 31 15 0422-380 1.00 1.50 .68 15 5 1821+107 1.00 1.50 1.32 29 12 0007+171 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 Total 10.53 232 96 =========================================================== 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 Mc MEDICINA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Sh SESHAN25 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 Mc Sh Tc Wf Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Mc 20 20 Mc 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 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