Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1171 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 R1171 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-108-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-109-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005108 (2005.30) ( 13479 MJD, MON. 18APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6:47:37.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 46.9m 11d 1.9 =========================================================== 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 0454-234 05108-170000| 167 133 167| 1611+343 05108-170000| 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0133+476 05109-164502| 198 198 | 1424-418 05109-164719| 40 40 | OJ287 05109-164813| 40 40| 0013-005 05109-165043| 200 200 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1171.skd for experiment R1171 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.6 Min = .0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Ho-Sv on 1958-179) RMS = 9.6 Total time: 1434 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: 38 29 26 44 31 48 35 36 % cal. time: 5 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 % slew time: 27 50 53 10 23 18 12 27 % idle time: 29 16 15 41 39 28 47 31 total # scans: 435 313 406 259 503 381 382 382 # scans/hour : 18.2 13.1 17.0 10.8 21.0 15.9 16.0 16.0 Avg scan (sec): 75 81 56 147 53 110 80 86 Total GBytes: 1343 1034 967 1468 1157 1647 1245 1266 Total GB(M5): 1194 919 859 1305 1028 1464 1107 1126 # of tapes : 2.5 1.6 1.6 2.4 1.9 2.6 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 0233 0757 0915 0408 0609 0227 0623 1224 0000 0000 1307 0000 1130 0000 Total number of tapes: 14.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7879.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|435 40 170 41 263 207 136 857 Ho| 313 12 94 213 9 11 379 Sv| 406 23 155 146 299 805 Tc| 259 13 140 51 362 Ts| 503 82 108 834 Wf| 381 166 750 Wz| 382 771 Number of 2-station scans: 700 Number of 3-station scans: 223 Number of 4-station scans: 105 Number of 5-station scans: 38 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1066 2379 =========================================================== 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 0013-005 1.00 1.50 1.05 25 17 2320+506 1.00 1.50 1.22 29 10 0818-128 1.00 1.50 .92 22 20 3C245 1.00 1.50 1.56 37 17 1221+809 1.00 1.50 1.18 28 8 2150+173 1.00 1.50 1.13 27 13 0256+075 1.00 1.50 1.18 28 16 0859+470 1.00 1.50 1.51 36 10 1751+288 1.00 1.50 1.60 38 13 1510-089 1.00 1.50 1.43 34 23 Total 12.78 304 147 =========================================================== 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