Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1191 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 R1191 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-249-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-250-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005249 (2005.68) ( 13620 MJD, TUES 6SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16: 3:32.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 1.8m 6d 13.1 =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 1334-127 05249-170000| 188 188 92 67| NGC6251 05249-170000| 180 180 78 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 05250-164442| 44 44 | 1908-201 05250-164510| 40 40| 0743+259 05250-164613| 56 44 56 | 1923+210 05250-164659| 40 40 40| OK290 05250-164756| 90 90 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1191.skd for experiment R1191 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.0 Min = .0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ny-Wf on 1749+096) RMS = 11.6 Total time: 1430 minutes ( 23.8 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 44 27 43 30 37 48 39 38 % cal. time: 6 3 5 2 5 5 5 5 % slew time: 29 17 25 6 21 19 13 19 % idle time: 21 52 25 61 36 27 41 38 total # scans: 490 289 461 179 467 426 454 395 # scans/hour : 20.6 12.1 19.3 7.5 19.6 17.9 19.0 16.6 Avg scan (sec): 77 80 80 144 68 97 75 88 Total GBytes: 1536 941 1499 992 1315 1645 1382 1330 Total GB(M5): 1365 837 1333 882 1169 1462 1228 1182 # of tapes : 2.8 1.5 2.4 1.6 2.1 2.6 2.2 tape change times (hhmm): 0140 0830 0327 0743 0417 0205 0456 1013 0000 1302 0000 1602 1111 1451 Total number of tapes: 15.3 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8275.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|490 164 103 27 364 197 107 962 Ny| 289 192 22 137 135 180 830 On| 461 23 135 150 401 1004 Tc| 179 22 146 30 270 Ts| 467 92 125 875 Wf| 426 144 864 Wz| 454 987 Number of 2-station scans: 559 Number of 3-station scans: 268 Number of 4-station scans: 118 Number of 5-station scans: 42 Number of 6-station scans: 27 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1014 2896 =========================================================== Recording mode 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: NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 1.52 44 5 1049+215 1.00 1.50 1.42 41 10 2235+731 1.00 1.50 1.59 46 15 0636+680 1.00 1.50 1.38 40 22 2253+417 1.00 1.50 1.62 47 13 0219+428 1.00 1.50 1.35 39 10 1751+441 1.00 1.50 1.35 39 12 0620+389 1.00 1.50 1.62 47 8 NGC1218 1.00 1.50 1.00 29 16 0839+187 1.00 1.50 .93 27 14 Total 13.78 399 125 =========================================================== 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 Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 On ONSALA60 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 Ny On Tc Ts Wf Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Ny 20 Ny 15 On 20 20 On 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