Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1173 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 R1173 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-122-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-123-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005122 (2005.33) ( 13493 MJD, MON. 2MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7:42:49.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 39.8m 15d 33.2 =========================================================== 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 1749+096 05122-170000| 40 40 40 | NRAO190 05122-170000| 200 200 200 200| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz 1057-797 05123-164700| 40 40 | 0805+410 05123-164744| 145 163 163| 1954-388 05123-164810| 90 90 | 1555+001 05123-165049| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1173.skd for experiment R1173 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.9 Min = .0 Max = 60.0 (Baseline Hh-Ho on 0556+238) RMS = 9.0 Total time: 1431 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: 39 31 29 39 44 45 35 37 % cal. time: 5 3 3 4 3 4 4 4 % slew time: 28 52 49 20 10 20 14 28 % idle time: 26 12 17 35 41 29 45 29 total # scans: 436 289 296 408 262 422 381 356 # scans/hour : 18.3 12.1 12.4 17.1 11.0 17.7 16.0 14.9 Avg scan (sec): 77 93 85 82 145 91 80 93 Total GBytes: 1372 1077 1018 1363 1467 1544 1241 1298 Total GB(M5): 1220 958 905 1212 1304 1372 1103 1154 # of tapes : 2.5 1.8 1.6 2.2 2.4 2.5 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 0222 0717 0801 0511 0315 0253 0556 1155 0000 0000 1521 1332 1212 0000 Total number of tapes: 15.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8076.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|436 11 36 229 33 240 183 732 Hh| 289 107 0 74 42 119 353 Ho| 296 127 76 7 14 367 Kk| 408 91 151 73 671 Tc| 262 101 35 410 Wf| 422 188 729 Wz| 381 612 Number of 2-station scans: 732 Number of 3-station scans: 235 Number of 4-station scans: 75 Number of 5-station scans: 5 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1047 1937 =========================================================== 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 NRAO190 1.00 1.50 1.50 29 11 1237-101 1.00 1.50 1.45 28 15 2059-786 1.00 1.50 .26 5 5 1936-155 1.00 1.50 1.14 22 18 0920-397 1.00 1.50 1.24 24 16 1555+001 1.00 1.50 1.55 30 17 2146-783 1.00 1.50 .26 5 5 1313-333 1.00 1.50 1.08 21 19 1758+388 1.00 1.50 1.03 20 12 1257+145 1.00 1.50 1.08 21 15 Total 10.58 205 133 =========================================================== 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