Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1241 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 R1241 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-254-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-255-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006254 (2006.70) ( 13990 MJD, MON. 11SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:22:17.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 18.9m 4d 25.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya and Ny Alesund 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 Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1803+784 06254-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 | 0727-115 06254-170152| 40 40 | 2234+282 06254-170211| 62 61 62 55 56 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc OW-015 06255-165232| 200 200 85 159| 0426+273 06255-165440| 157 157 | 1334-127 06255-165454| 200 200 | 0642+449 06255-165913| 40 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1241.skd for experiment R1241 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.9 Min = .0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1954-388) RMS = 11.8 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 48 32 50 36 33 54 41 17 39 % cal. time: 6 4 6 3 4 5 6 3 5 % slew time: 31 18 27 9 16 19 12 37 22 % idle time: 14 45 16 51 46 20 40 42 35 total # scans: 487 359 476 243 383 461 481 261 393 # scans/hour : 20.3 15.0 19.8 10.1 16.0 19.2 20.0 10.9 16.4 Avg scan (sec): 85 77 91 130 74 102 74 56 85 Total GBytes: 1667 1124 1724 1222 1162 1853 1451 624 1353 Total GB(M5): 1482 999 1533 1086 1033 1647 1290 554 1203 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9624.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal ---------------------------------------------- Ma|487 294 376 47 207 210 428 233 1795 Ny| 359 322 23 188 211 297 185 1520 On| 476 31 235 229 391 226 1810 Tc| 243 48 177 40 11 377 Ts| 383 170 193 133 1174 Wf| 461 217 102 1316 Wz| 481 227 1793 Zc| 261 1117 Number of 2-station scans: 326 Number of 3-station scans: 110 Number of 4-station scans: 125 Number of 5-station scans: 121 Number of 6-station scans: 119 Number of 7-station scans: 50 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 851 5451 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: MATERA NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 .01 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 .01 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 0426+273 1.00 1.50 .46 25 18 OW-015 1.00 1.50 .94 51 14 3C147 1.00 1.50 1.03 56 11 4C67.05 1.00 1.50 1.83 100 6 1240+381 1.00 1.50 .97 53 13 0239+108 1.00 1.50 .42 23 16 1502+106 1.00 1.50 1.47 80 14 1717+178 1.00 1.50 1.65 90 15 0920+390 1.00 1.50 .99 54 14 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.63 89 7 Total 11.39 621 128 =========================================================== 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 Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ny 20 Ny 15 On 20 20 On 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