Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1201 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 R1201 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-339-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-340-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005339 (2005.93) ( 13710 MJD, MON. 5DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21:58:22.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 49.1m -22d 26.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz 1611+343 05339-170000| 40 58 58 56| 0642+449 05339-170321| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz 1124-186 05340-164717| 105 105 | 1749+096 05340-164822| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1201.skd for experiment R1201 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.4 Min = .0 Max = 50.8 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1958-179) RMS = 10.2 Total time: 1429 minutes ( 23.8 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 50 50 20 35 35 43 39 % cal. time: 5 4 3 1 5 4 4 % slew time: 24 27 13 4 18 11 17 % idle time: 20 17 63 59 41 40 41 total # scans: 422 376 238 119 431 381 327 # scans/hour : 17.7 15.8 10.0 5.0 18.1 16.0 13.8 Avg scan (sec): 101 114 73 250 69 97 116 Total GBytes: 1687 1674 709 1113 1223 1472 1313 Total GB(M5): 1499 1488 631 990 1087 1309 1167 # of tapes : 3.3 2.7 1.1 2.0 1.9 2.4 tape change times (hhmm): 0035 0134 1411 0553 0530 0422 0816 1057 0000 0000 0000 1339 1522 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Total number of tapes: 13.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7003.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|422 181 184 53 337 205 960 Ma| 376 183 66 204 346 980 Ny| 238 26 168 190 751 Tc| 119 29 63 237 Ts| 431 201 939 Wz| 381 1005 Number of 2-station scans: 262 Number of 3-station scans: 172 Number of 4-station scans: 98 Number of 5-station scans: 107 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 639 2436 =========================================================== 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 NYALES20 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 0248+430 1.00 1.50 .90 22 6 1932+204 1.00 1.50 .78 19 15 0423+051 1.00 1.50 .82 20 16 0748+126 1.00 1.50 1.27 31 11 1459+480 1.00 1.50 1.03 25 6 1252+119 1.00 1.50 1.03 25 11 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.03 25 7 1538+149 1.00 1.50 1.64 40 10 2355-106 1.00 1.50 .70 17 13 1038+52A 1.00 1.50 .70 17 6 Total 9.89 241 101 =========================================================== 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 Ny NYALES20 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 Ny Tc Ts Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Ma 20 Ma 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 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