Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1176 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 R1176 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2005-143-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-144-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005143 (2005.39) ( 13514 MJD, MON. 23MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 9: 5:37.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 4h 2.4m 20d 41.4 =========================================================== 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. Both Ny Alesund and Fairbanks are tagged along to this session. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ny On Ts Wf Wz 1144+402 05143-170000| 200 200 200 110| 2234+282 05143-170000| 60 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ny On Ts Wf Wz 0235+164 05144-164058| 41 40 60 60 | 1308+326 05144-164359| 40 40 40 40| 1519-273 05144-164441| 41 41 | 1611+343 05144-164617| 40 40 40 40| 1130+009 05144-164942| 200 200 200| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1176.skd for experiment R1176 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.5 Min = .0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1958-179) RMS = 9.8 Total time: 1433 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Hh Ny On Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 23 26 25 43 37 35 39 33 % cal. time: 3 3 3 5 4 4 5 4 % slew time: 16 47 16 29 18 17 15 23 % idle time: 57 23 54 22 39 43 40 40 total # scans: 256 238 296 470 383 358 455 350 # scans/hour : 10.7 10.0 12.4 19.7 16.0 15.0 19.1 14.7 Avg scan (sec): 77 94 74 78 83 85 73 80 Total GBytes: 799 892 890 1488 1289 1224 1364 1135 Total GB(M5): 710 793 791 1323 1145 1088 1212 1009 # of tapes : 1.5 1.4 1.5 2.4 2.1 2.0 2.2 tape change times (hhmm): 0930 0957 0925 0302 0353 0503 0549 0000 0000 0000 1306 1553 0000 1530 Total number of tapes: 13.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7062.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Ny On Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|256 11 185 174 179 191 148 888 Hh| 238 37 75 76 58 131 388 Ny| 296 235 170 179 200 1006 On| 470 198 191 356 1229 Ts| 383 179 152 954 Wf| 358 169 967 Wz| 455 1156 Number of 2-station scans: 287 Number of 3-station scans: 207 Number of 4-station scans: 131 Number of 5-station scans: 97 Number of 6-station scans: 42 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 764 3294 =========================================================== 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 NYALES20 ONSALA60 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: 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0215+015 1.00 1.50 .46 15 7 1406-076 1.00 1.50 .43 14 7 1557+032 1.00 1.50 .33 11 5 0949+354 1.00 1.50 1.79 59 14 2254+024 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0153+744 1.00 1.50 .85 28 16 1144+402 1.00 1.50 1.21 40 8 1130+009 1.00 1.50 .85 28 15 1830+285 1.00 1.50 1.43 47 15 Total 7.35 242 87 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF 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 Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 On ONSALA60 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 Hh Ny On Ts Wf Gc Hh Ny On Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15