Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1209 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2006.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1209 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2006-030-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-031-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006030 (2006.08) ( 13766 MJD, MON. 30JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 1:39: 9.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 20h 52.5m -17d 33.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were tagged along to this session. =========================================================== Simulation Results Database X offset/rate Y offset/rate UT1 offset/rate Nutation Psi/Eps $06JAN30ZZ 45.29 134.68 42.88 114.02 2.04 5.80 82.90 31.30 =========================================================== 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 Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 3C446 06030-170000| 73 162 162 151 | NRAO140 06030-170532| 82 67 82 81 52| 0749+540 06030-170745| 40 57 57 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1432+200 06031-164209| 600 600 | VR422201 06031-164553| 320 328 328 159| CTA26 06031-165344| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1209.skd for experiment R1209 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.8 Min = .0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 11.1 Total time: 1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 39 17 51 34 51 42 13 35 % cal. time: 3 2 3 4 4 4 2 3 % slew time: 45 10 9 15 17 14 29 21 % idle time: 12 70 36 45 27 39 54 41 total # scans: 230 179 238 328 359 366 190 270 # scans/hour : 9.6 7.5 10.0 13.7 15.0 15.3 7.9 11.3 Avg scan (sec): 144 82 184 90 122 100 59 111 Total GBytes: 1276 596 1664 1181 1708 1443 475 1192 Total GB(M5): 1134 530 1479 1050 1518 1283 422 1059 # of tapes : 2.2 1.0 2.7 2.0 2.8 2.4 .8 tape change times (hhmm): 0330 0000 0114 0622 0213 0355 0000 1455 0000 0945 0000 1059 1341 0000 Total number of tapes: 13.9 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7415.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Hh|230 35 99 62 57 131 100 484 Ny| 179 8 137 111 154 77 522 Tc| 238 31 152 64 25 379 Ts| 328 162 202 107 701 Wf| 359 189 86 757 Wz| 366 171 911 Zc| 190 566 Number of 2-station scans: 276 Number of 3-station scans: 172 Number of 4-station scans: 138 Number of 5-station scans: 54 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 640 2160 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO NYALES20 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL ZELENCHK 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 0237-233 1.00 1.50 .14 3 3 1226+373 1.00 1.50 .69 15 8 NRAO140 1.00 1.50 1.71 37 12 VR422201 1.00 1.50 2.18 47 10 1624+416 1.00 1.50 .79 17 10 1055+018 1.00 1.50 1.62 35 7 0919-260 1.00 1.50 .88 19 10 1655+077 1.00 1.50 1.62 35 8 1039+811 1.00 1.50 2.04 44 6 1432+200 1.00 1.50 1.02 22 9 Total 12.69 274 83 =========================================================== 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 FFTFF 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 Hh HARTRAO 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 Wf WESTFORD 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Zc ZELENCHK 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ny 20 Ny 15 Tc 15 15 Tc 12 12 Ts 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 12 15 15 Zc 20 20 15 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 12 15 15 15