Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1186 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 R1186 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-213-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-214-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005213 (2005.58) ( 13584 MJD, MON. 1AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:41:36.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 47.9m 17d 51.8 =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. This is the first session that Matera was scheduled in as a regular station (no tagging). Matera's SEFDs were increased to 5000 at x-band and 3000 at s-band to accomodate their warm receiver. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0402-362 05213-170000| 200 101 200 | 1928+738 05213-170000| 82 97 97 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0537-441 05214-163535| 55 40 55 | 1255-316 05214-163613| 40 40| CTA26 05214-163721| 200 174 200 200 | 0955+476 05214-163844| 40 40| 0607-157 05214-164129| 40 40 40 | 2201+315 05214-164147| 40 40| 0727-115 05214-164317| 40 40 | 2021+317 05214-164319| 129 129| 0110+495 05214-164359| 200 200 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1186.skd for experiment R1186 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.1 Min = .0 Max = 55.4 (Baseline Tc-Wf on 1424-418) RMS = 10.2 Total time: 1427 minutes ( 23.8 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 43 29 40 41 40 45 40 40 % cal. time: 5 3 5 5 3 5 5 4 % slew time: 27 49 20 30 11 18 14 25 % idle time: 24 18 34 23 44 32 40 31 total # scans: 418 292 438 409 290 388 447 383 # scans/hour : 17.6 12.3 18.4 17.2 12.2 16.3 18.8 16.1 Avg scan (sec): 88 84 79 86 119 99 77 89 Total GBytes: 1475 985 1405 1414 1348 1516 1398 1363 Total GB(M5): 1311 876 1249 1257 1199 1347 1243 1212 # of tapes : 2.8 1.6 2.3 2.3 2.2 2.4 2.2 tape change times (hhmm): 0154 0707 0456 0341 0332 0225 0426 1105 0000 1441 1433 1454 1237 1446 Total number of tapes: 15.8 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8481.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|418 38 244 73 18 186 135 694 Ho| 292 159 15 124 6 22 364 Kk| 438 16 86 130 40 675 Ma| 409 25 100 349 578 Tc| 290 133 12 398 Wf| 388 112 667 Wz| 447 670 Number of 2-station scans: 841 Number of 3-station scans: 222 Number of 4-station scans: 76 Number of 5-station scans: 6 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1145 2023 =========================================================== 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 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: KOKEE MATERA 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 2021+317 1.00 1.50 1.48 30 17 1705+018 1.00 1.50 1.14 23 15 0735+178 1.00 1.50 1.33 27 17 0256+075 1.00 1.50 1.04 21 15 1928+738 1.00 1.50 1.48 30 7 1053+704 1.00 1.50 1.19 24 8 1324+224 1.00 1.50 1.58 32 17 2319+272 1.00 1.50 1.33 27 14 0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.04 21 7 0110+495 1.00 1.50 1.04 21 21 Total 12.65 256 138 =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ma MATERA 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 Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 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