Session Notes for session: r4159 Prepared by Merri Sue Carter, USNO. (msc@maia.usno.navy.mil) =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R4159 Experiment description: NEOSA Scheduler: tbd Correlator: TBD Nominal start: 2005-034-18:30:00 Nominal end: 2005-035-18:45:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005034 (2005.09) ( 13405 MJD, THUR 3FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 3:26: 7.52 (18:30: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 10.0m -16d 19.5 ========================================================== The following sources were included for research purposes: =========================================================== First observations Observation listing from file ./r4159.skd for experiment R4159 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ap Ft Gc Kk Ny Sv Tc Wz 0743+259 05034-183000| 98 98 | 1611+343 05034-183936| 98 98 98 | 0458-020 05034-184029| 204 204 | 0048-097 05034-184800| 129 129 | 0119+115 05034-185326| 98 98 98 | End of listing. =========================================================== Last observations Observation listing from file ./r4159.skd for experiment R4159 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ap Ft Gc Kk Ny Sv Tc Wz 0552+398 05035-182548| 98 98 98 98| End of listing. Observation listing from file ./r4159.skd for experiment R4159 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ap Ft Gc Kk Ny Sv Tc Wz 2149+056 05035-175422| 98 98 | 2136+141 05035-175805| 98 344 163 344 250 109| 2201+315 05035-180332| 98 98 | 0059+581 05035-181033| 98 128 128 98 98| 2356+385 05035-181530| 336 336 | 0552+398 05035-182548| 98 98 98 98| End of listing. =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r4159.skd for experiment R4159 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 2.6 Min = .0 Max = 32.5 (Baseline Ny-Sv on CTA26 ) RMS = 4.2 Total time: 1437 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ap=ALGOPARK Ft=FORTLEZA Gc=GILCREEK Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Wz=WETTZELL Ap Ft Gc Kk Ny Sv Tc Wz Avg % obs. time: 24 20 21 29 35 30 1 34 24 % cal. time: 2 1 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 % slew time: 56 24 11 8 15 39 0 9 20 % idle time: 16 53 65 59 46 26 98 53 52 total # scans: 192 130 161 151 226 234 11 229 166 # scans/hour : 8 5 6 6 9 9 0 9 6.9 Avg scan (sec): 109 135 116 167 136 113 108 128 126 Total GBytes: 362 298 320 423 520 454 20 500 362 # of tapes : .8 2.5 .8 1.9 2.2 2.0 .0 1.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0000 0436 0000 0002 0002 0002 0000 1622 0000 1400 0000 0000 1516 0000 0000 0000 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ap Ft Gc Kk Ny Sv Tc Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------------- Ap|192 82 106 101 123 111 11 107 641 Ft| 130 38 38 59 73 11 94 395 Gc| 161 118 138 116 0 104 620 Kk| 151 104 82 8 72 523 Ny| 226 194 0 175 793 Sv| 234 0 200 776 Tc| 11 0 30 Wz| 229 752 Number of 2-station scans: 60 Number of 3-station scans: 108 Number of 4-station scans: 64 Number of 5-station scans: 45 Number of 6-station scans: 60 Number of 7-station scans: 7 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 344 2265 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSXR4 SX Recording mode setup for: ALGOPARK GILCREEK KOKEE NYALES20 SVETLOE TIGOCONC WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel C 112.000 Mbits 56.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 2 14(*0) 28 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 125.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.7 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 8.000 6.000 14.000 Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel C 112.000 Mbits 56.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 2 14(*0) 28 270.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 125.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.7 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 8.000 6.000 14.000 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ap ALGOPARK 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Ft FORTLEZA 8700feet (Thick) 33333. (Low ) 12 Gc GILCREEK 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Sv SVETLOE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250. (High) 12 =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ap Ft Gc Kk Ny Sv Tc Ap Ft Gc Kk Ny Sv Tc Ft 20 Ft 15 Gc 20 20 Gc 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 Sv 20 20 20 20 20 Sv 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 12