Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1242 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 R1242 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-261-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-262-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006261 (2006.72) ( 13997 MJD, MON. 18SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:49:53.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 44.0m 1d 44.0 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. 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 Ft Ho Kk Ny On Wf Wz 0059+581 06261-170000| 40 40 40 40| 1057-797 06261-170000| 200 200 | 1128+385 06261-170150| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny On Wf Wz 0402-362 06262-164936| 128 128 | 1751+288 06262-165029| 148 148 65| 1300+580 06262-165355| 200 200 200 200 200| 0552+398 06262-165813| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1242.skd for experiment R1242 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.5 Min = .0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Ft-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 11.9 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Ny On Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 35 23 42 30 47 47 41 38 % cal. time: 3 3 5 4 5 5 5 4 % slew time: 36 40 20 18 27 21 14 26 % idle time: 24 33 32 47 20 26 39 32 total # scans: 274 258 429 327 437 448 442 373 # scans/hour : 11.4 10.8 17.9 13.6 18.2 18.7 18.4 15.6 Avg scan (sec): 112 76 85 79 92 90 80 87 Total GBytes: 1201 797 1473 1047 1609 1620 1431 1311 Total GB(M5): 1067 708 1309 931 1430 1440 1272 1165 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8157.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny On Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Ft|274 20 60 90 114 214 136 634 Ho| 258 213 24 20 13 21 311 Kk| 429 136 107 196 109 821 Ny| 327 274 236 260 1020 On| 437 248 382 1145 Wf| 448 241 1148 Wz| 442 1149 Number of 2-station scans: 448 Number of 3-station scans: 188 Number of 4-station scans: 122 Number of 5-station scans: 119 Number of 6-station scans: 12 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 889 3114 =========================================================== 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 .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: 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 .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: KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 .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 1751+288 1.00 1.50 1.45 45 13 1547+507 1.00 1.50 .87 27 21 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.73 54 8 0609+607 1.00 1.50 1.06 33 15 1402+044 1.00 1.50 .77 24 19 0446+112 1.00 1.50 1.45 45 11 0945+408 1.00 1.50 1.61 50 7 0035+413 1.00 1.50 1.54 48 19 1928+738 1.00 1.50 1.83 57 6 2052-474 1.00 1.50 .61 19 19 Total 12.91 402 138 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Ho Kk Ny On Wf Ft Ho Kk Ny On Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15