Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1190 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 R1190 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-241-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-242-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005241 (2005.66) ( 13612 MJD, MON. 29AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15:31:59.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 32.8m 9d 8.7 =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0642+449 05241-170000| 40 40 40 | 1334-127 05241-170000| 130 130 93 68| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 4C39.25 05242-164316| 40 40 | 0727-115 05242-164329| 43 43 | 1413+135 05242-164353| 192 192| 1053+815 05242-164451| 40 40 | 0743+259 05242-164647| 55 55 | 0528+134 05242-164840| 40 40 40 | 0235+164 05242-165032| 40 40 | 0119+115 05242-165202| 40 40 | 0556+238 05242-165418| 80 89 89 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1190.skd for experiment R1190 (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 = 63.5 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 3C446 ) RMS = 11.0 Total time: 1436 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ma=MATERA Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 42 39 29 33 33 48 37 37 % cal. time: 6 5 5 2 5 5 5 5 % slew time: 30 30 49 7 21 18 13 25 % idle time: 21 26 16 57 40 28 44 34 total # scans: 483 405 388 200 463 412 417 395 # scans/hour : 20.2 16.9 16.2 8.4 19.3 17.2 17.4 16.5 Avg scan (sec): 74 82 66 142 61 100 77 85 Total GBytes: 1462 1340 1055 1096 1192 1630 1300 1296 Total GB(M5): 1300 1191 938 974 1059 1449 1155 1152 # of tapes : 2.7 2.1 1.7 1.8 1.9 2.6 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0206 0415 0735 0610 0524 0200 0519 1045 1509 0000 0000 0000 1118 1618 Total number of tapes: 15.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8066.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|483 53 130 26 348 201 90 848 Ma| 405 238 22 94 82 331 820 Sv| 388 15 158 84 264 889 Tc| 200 24 154 22 263 Ts| 463 99 103 826 Wf| 412 106 726 Wz| 417 916 Number of 2-station scans: 645 Number of 3-station scans: 268 Number of 4-station scans: 90 Number of 5-station scans: 52 Number of 6-station scans: 9 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1064 2644 =========================================================== Due to a simplifying consolidation in the sked catalogs, the 2-letter code for the R1 sessions changed from '4f' to 'sx' effective August 8, 2005. =========================================================== Name Code GEOSX SX 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: MATERA 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 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 1342+662 1.00 1.50 1.44 38 6 1413+135 1.00 1.50 .95 25 17 0839+187 1.00 1.50 1.25 33 19 1020+400 1.00 1.50 1.02 27 4 1751+441 1.00 1.50 1.44 38 10 2253+417 1.00 1.50 1.44 38 12 0636+680 1.00 1.50 1.32 35 17 Total 8.85 234 85 =========================================================== 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 Ma MATERA 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 Ma Sv Tc Ts Wf Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wf Ma 20 Ma 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