Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1233 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 R1233 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-198-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-199-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006198 (2006.54) ( 13934 MJD, MON. 17JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12:41:30.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 7h 47.7m 21d 8.1 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 Ho Kk Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0607-157 06198-170000| 41 41 40 | 1749+096 06198-170000| 113 113 50| 0059+581 06198-170416| 65 40 65 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0035+413 06199-164141| 200 200 200 | 0642+449 06199-164141| 200 200 98| 0637-752 06199-164618| 89 89 | NGC6251 06199-164724| 200 200 200 149| 0202+149 06199-165235| 78 78 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1233.skd for experiment R1233 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.0 Min = .0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline On-Wf on 0454-234) RMS = 11.3 Total time: 1434 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ny On Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 29 45 27 44 45 50 40 40 % cal. time: 3 4 3 5 3 4 5 4 % slew time: 45 18 15 26 11 18 14 21 % idle time: 21 31 54 25 40 27 40 35 total # scans: 269 356 244 398 280 363 402 330 # scans/hour : 11.3 14.9 10.2 16.7 11.7 15.2 16.8 13.8 Avg scan (sec): 94 109 94 95 137 118 86 104 Total GBytes: 1007 1530 913 1501 1483 1674 1387 1356 Total GB(M5): 895 1360 812 1334 1318 1488 1233 1206 # of tapes : 1.6 2.5 1.5 2.4 2.4 2.7 2.2 tape change times (hhmm): 0726 0353 0841 0326 0227 0122 0429 0000 1236 0000 1310 1239 1034 1447 Total number of tapes: 15.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8439.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Ho|269 147 12 10 140 18 15 342 Kk| 356 109 85 87 164 101 693 Ny| 244 185 10 172 182 670 On| 398 25 181 342 828 Tc| 280 127 31 420 Wf| 363 164 826 Wz| 402 835 Number of 2-station scans: 463 Number of 3-station scans: 230 Number of 4-station scans: 119 Number of 5-station scans: 44 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 856 2307 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 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 Recording mode setup for: KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC WESTFORD 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0159+723 1.00 1.50 1.43 33 15 1030+415 1.00 1.50 1.17 27 11 0248+430 1.00 1.50 1.04 24 15 OQ172 1.00 1.50 .82 19 17 1308+328 1.00 1.50 1.65 38 9 0716+714 1.00 1.50 1.56 36 8 0007+171 1.00 1.50 1.08 25 17 2216-038 1.00 1.50 1.17 27 12 0035+413 1.00 1.50 1.60 37 13 1342+663 1.00 1.50 1.13 26 12 Total 12.66 292 129 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT 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 Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 On ONSALA60 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Wf WESTFORD 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) Ho Kk Ny On Tc Wf Ho Kk Ny On Tc Wf Kk 15 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15