Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1175 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 R1175 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-136-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-137-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005136 (2005.37) ( 13507 MJD, MON. 16MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 8:38: 1.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 3h 34.4m 19d 14.1 =========================================================== 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 Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz 0607-157 05136-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| 1417+385 05136-170000| 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz 2113+293 05137-164527| 200 200 | 2318+049 05137-164536| 200 200 | 0818-128 05137-164627| 127 127| 1124-186 05137-164957| 40 40 40| 0823+033 05137-165205| 40 69 69| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1175.skd for experiment R1175 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 6.9 Min = .0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Hh-Tc on 1611+343) RMS = 8.6 Total time: 1433 minutes ( 23.9 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: 43 32 33 34 37 45 37 37 % cal. time: 5 3 5 3 3 4 4 4 % slew time: 23 47 39 44 7 17 12 28 % idle time: 28 17 22 18 52 32 46 31 total # scans: 387 244 405 281 220 362 365 323 # scans/hour : 16.2 10.2 17.0 11.8 9.2 15.2 15.3 13.5 Avg scan (sec): 96 113 69 104 146 108 87 102 Total GBytes: 1477 1081 1159 1149 1236 1535 1280 1274 Total GB(M5): 1313 961 1030 1021 1099 1365 1138 1132 # of tapes : 2.8 1.8 1.9 1.9 2.0 2.5 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0150 0641 0606 0629 0615 0306 0545 1035 0000 0000 0000 0000 1212 1639 Total number of tapes: 14.8 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7925.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|387 5 137 189 36 181 142 690 Hh| 244 130 41 94 39 85 394 Mc| 405 81 40 148 312 848 Sh| 281 1 44 86 442 Tc| 220 131 26 328 Wf| 362 141 684 Wz| 365 792 Number of 2-station scans: 565 Number of 3-station scans: 178 Number of 4-station scans: 105 Number of 5-station scans: 36 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 884 2089 =========================================================== 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 2143-156 1.00 1.50 .81 17 9 0818-128 1.00 1.50 .29 6 6 0457+024 1.00 1.50 1.05 22 14 1929+226 1.00 1.50 1.39 29 12 0615+820 1.00 1.50 1.48 31 13 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.39 29 14 1510-089 1.00 1.50 1.20 25 12 1257+145 1.00 1.50 .96 20 16 1849+670 1.00 1.50 1.53 32 8 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .62 13 13 Total 10.72 224 117 =========================================================== 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