Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1230 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 R1230 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-177-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-178-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006177 (2006.49) ( 13913 MJD, MON. 26JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 11:18:42.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 6h 21.6m 23d 20.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0552+398 06177-170000| 64 133 133 40 72 | 2356+385 06177-170303| 78 78 | 0537-441 06177-170436| 43 43 | 1749+096 06177-170436| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0048-097 06178-163925| 200 200 | 0823+033 06178-164141| 49 49 48 | OK290 06178-164331| 40 40 40 40| 0402-362 06178-164444| 113 113 | 1611+343 06178-164650| 40 40 40 40 | 1418+546 06178-164834| 104 40 104 65 40| 0710+439 06178-165210| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1230.skd for experiment R1230 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.1 Min = .0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 11.9 Total time: 1433 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 41 44 22 33 27 45 36 15 33 % cal. time: 3 5 3 2 4 5 5 3 4 % slew time: 39 33 15 8 16 20 14 34 23 % idle time: 16 17 59 55 52 30 44 47 41 total # scans: 276 430 250 211 351 406 425 225 321 # scans/hour : 11.6 18.0 10.5 8.8 14.7 17.0 17.8 9.4 13.5 Avg scan (sec): 128 88 76 135 66 95 74 59 89 Total GBytes: 1373 1520 778 1099 966 1531 1282 561 1139 Total GB(M5): 1220 1351 691 977 858 1361 1139 498 1012 # of tapes : 2.2 2.4 1.3 1.8 1.6 2.5 2.1 .9 tape change times (hhmm): 0344 0301 1226 0805 0805 0204 0551 0000 1417 1242 0000 0000 0000 1205 1633 0000 Total number of tapes: 14.8 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8096.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal ---------------------------------------------- Ft|276 108 62 151 16 159 97 53 646 Ma| 430 190 50 201 205 386 205 1345 Ny| 250 30 162 185 190 111 930 Tc| 211 39 80 47 22 419 Ts| 351 195 205 123 941 Wf| 406 213 102 1139 Wz| 425 194 1332 Zc| 225 810 Number of 2-station scans: 288 Number of 3-station scans: 175 Number of 4-station scans: 131 Number of 5-station scans: 100 Number of 6-station scans: 55 Number of 7-station scans: 17 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 766 3781 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 64.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 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 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 1727+502 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0414-189 1.00 1.50 .53 20 12 2229+695 1.00 1.50 1.51 57 6 M81 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1432+200 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0446+112 1.00 1.50 1.90 72 14 1216+487 1.00 1.50 1.03 39 8 0109+224 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0710+439 1.00 1.50 .87 33 17 OW-015 1.00 1.50 .48 18 12 Total 6.32 239 69 =========================================================== 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 FFF =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 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) Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 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 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 12 15 15 15