Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1227 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 R1227 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-157-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-158-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006157 (2006.43) ( 13893 MJD, TUES 6JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 9:59:51.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 4h 58.5m 22d 41.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were tagged along to this session file. =========================================================== 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 Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0727-115 06157-170000| 58 59 40 59 | 0059+581 06157-170322| 40 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0402-362 06158-164305| 200 200 | 1237-101 06158-164346| 40 40 40| 3C274 06158-164521| 40 40 | OQ208 06158-164713| 143 40 143 55 40| 1418+546 06158-165047| 92 40 40 92 80 42| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1227.skd for experiment R1227 (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 = 68.6 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1240+381) RMS = 11.8 Total time: 1432 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 44 21 33 34 48 35 16 33 % cal. time: 6 3 3 5 5 5 3 4 % slew time: 33 16 8 17 21 13 36 21 % idle time: 16 59 55 43 25 45 44 41 total # scans: 473 261 222 405 463 458 247 361 # scans/hour : 19.8 10.9 9.3 17.0 19.4 19.2 10.3 15.1 Avg scan (sec): 80 70 129 72 88 66 56 79 Total GBytes: 1536 754 1108 1195 1638 1257 588 1154 Total GB(M5): 1365 670 985 1062 1456 1118 522 1025 # of tapes : 2.4 1.2 1.8 1.9 2.6 2.0 .9 tape change times (hhmm): 0248 1235 0531 0642 0208 0530 0000 1235 0000 0000 0000 1133 0000 0000 Total number of tapes: 12.9 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7178.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Ma|473 219 57 271 243 405 242 1437 Ny| 261 25 180 193 216 126 959 Tc| 222 46 164 57 18 367 Ts| 405 211 243 147 1098 Wf| 463 259 122 1192 Wz| 458 220 1400 Zc| 247 875 Number of 2-station scans: 280 Number of 3-station scans: 139 Number of 4-station scans: 157 Number of 5-station scans: 114 Number of 6-station scans: 59 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 749 3664 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: MATERA 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 1746+470 1.00 1.50 .55 20 20 NGC0262 1.00 1.50 1.12 41 11 1538+149 1.00 1.50 1.64 60 11 0836+710 1.00 1.50 1.69 62 6 2335-027 1.00 1.50 .79 29 10 0420-014 1.00 1.50 1.09 40 15 2017+743 1.00 1.50 1.53 56 12 2029+121 1.00 1.50 1.20 44 12 1240+381 1.00 1.50 1.31 48 14 1237-101 1.00 1.50 .93 34 12 Total 11.84 434 123 =========================================================== 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 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 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) Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ma 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