Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1200 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 R1200 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-332-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-333-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005332 (2005.91) ( 13703 MJD, MON. 28NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21:30:46.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 18.9m -21d 24.3 =========================================================== 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 0642+449 05332-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| 0133+476 05332-170303| 40 40 40 | 2149-306 05332-170305| 113 113 86| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wz 2149-306 05333-164609| 113 113 86| 1012+232 05333-164754| 40 40 | 2149+056 05333-164937| 40 40 40| 0808+019 05333-165057| 40 40 | 0743+259 05333-165221| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1200.skd for experiment R1200 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 10.9 Min = .0 Max = 1178.2 (Baseline Gc-Ts on 0605-085) RMS = 44.8 Total time: 1433 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: 42 43 24 38 27 39 36 % cal. time: 5 4 5 1 5 4 4 % slew time: 24 28 54 4 19 10 24 % idle time: 27 24 16 57 47 46 37 total # scans: 425 381 416 113 429 371 355 # scans/hour : 17.8 16.0 17.4 4.7 18.0 15.5 14.9 Avg scan (sec): 86 98 50 286 55 90 110 Total GBytes: 1464 1477 905 1203 1004 1339 1232 Total GB(M5): 1301 1313 805 1070 892 1190 1095 # of tapes : 2.8 2.4 1.4 2.2 1.6 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0129 0324 1002 0429 0917 0502 1010 1237 0000 1407 0000 1518 Total number of tapes: 12.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6572.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ma Sv Tc Ts Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|425 159 247 45 328 170 949 Ma| 381 297 56 162 339 1013 Sv| 416 25 251 291 1111 Tc| 113 32 53 211 Ts| 429 156 929 Wz| 371 1009 Number of 2-station scans: 268 Number of 3-station scans: 207 Number of 4-station scans: 117 Number of 5-station scans: 102 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 694 2611 =========================================================== 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 1705+018 1.00 1.50 1.26 33 13 1244-255 1.00 1.50 .65 17 9 1324+224 1.00 1.50 1.49 39 10 1039+811 1.00 1.50 1.76 46 6 0123+257 1.00 1.50 1.49 39 14 2021+317 1.00 1.50 1.46 38 10 1012+232 1.00 1.50 1.42 37 16 2149-306 1.00 1.50 .80 21 13 0605-085 1.00 1.50 .92 24 15 0919-260 1.00 1.50 .73 19 13 Total 11.99 313 119 =========================================================== 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