Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1194 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 R1194 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-290-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-291-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005290 (2005.79) ( 13661 MJD, MON. 17OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18:45:10.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 30.5m -9d 27.9 =========================================================== 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 Wz 1044+719 05290-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| 0133+476 05290-170315| 40 40 40 40 40| 3C418 05290-170513| 106 143 46 143| 0552+398 05290-170837| 40 40 40 | 1908-201 05290-171008| 40 40| 0656+082 05290-171013| 40 40 | 0446+112 05290-171144| 40 40 | 1923+210 05290-171155| 40 40| 0945+408 05290-171403| 46 40 46 | 1928+738 05290-171723| 79 79 40 40 40| 0609+607 05290-172013| 183 90 139 183| 1741-038 05290-172050| 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wz 0300+470 05291-164312| 200 200 47 106 84| 0727-115 05291-164627| 40 40 | 1958-179 05291-164843| 40 40 40| 0003-066 05291-165137| 40 40 40 40| 2243-123 05291-165357| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1194.skd for experiment R1194 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.1 Min = .0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Sv-Ts on 0727-115) RMS = 12.3 Total time: 1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ma=MATERA Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 43 36 27 19 31 34 32 % cal. time: 5 5 5 1 5 5 4 % slew time: 26 29 52 3 19 12 24 % idle time: 25 29 15 76 44 48 40 total # scans: 468 420 423 107 452 444 385 # scans/hour : 19.6 17.6 17.7 4.5 18.9 18.6 16.1 Avg scan (sec): 79 74 55 151 59 66 80 Total GBytes: 1492 1275 988 621 1125 1211 1119 Total GB(M5): 1326 1134 878 552 1000 1077 994 # of tapes : 2.8 2.0 1.6 1.1 1.8 1.9 tape change times (hhmm): 0142 0520 0802 1612 0658 0622 1028 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Total number of tapes: 11.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5966.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|468 148 225 49 355 208 985 Ma| 420 294 33 143 360 978 Sv| 423 18 218 330 1085 Tc| 107 36 27 163 Ts| 452 164 916 Wz| 444 1089 Number of 2-station scans: 405 Number of 3-station scans: 197 Number of 4-station scans: 107 Number of 5-station scans: 97 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 806 2608 =========================================================== 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: MATERA SVETLOE TIGOCONC 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 1639+230 1.00 1.50 1.00 26 17 1928+738 1.00 1.50 1.57 41 5 0609+607 1.00 1.50 1.07 28 6 0446+112 1.00 1.50 1.00 26 13 0735+178 1.00 1.50 1.50 39 18 1347+539 1.00 1.50 1.07 28 9 1402+044 1.00 1.50 .96 25 15 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.65 43 8 0945+408 1.00 1.50 1.27 33 9 NGC0262 1.00 1.50 1.19 31 13 Total 12.27 320 113 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 1.00 FFFTF F =========================================================== 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 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 Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts 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 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15