Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1244 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 R1244 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-275-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-276-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006275 (2006.75) ( 14011 MJD, MON. 2OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 17:45: 5.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 34.4m -3d 42.5 =========================================================== Important Station Information 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 Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0727-115 06275-170000| 43 40 40 40| 1749+096 06275-170000| 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1519-273 06276-165351| 200 200 | 1044+719 06276-165534| 40 40 40 40| 3C274 06276-165716| 43 94 94 47 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1244.skd for experiment R1244 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 10.1 Min = .0 Max = 135.0 (Baseline Hh-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 14.2 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 31 28 49 47 36 50 43 18 38 % cal. time: 3 4 5 3 5 5 5 3 4 % slew time: 53 22 31 10 19 21 15 39 27 % idle time: 11 45 14 39 39 22 35 39 31 total # scans: 279 364 460 290 405 437 464 251 368 # scans/hour : 12 15 19 12 17 18 19 10 15 Avg scan (sec): 97 67 93 140 76 99 80 60 88 Total GBytes: 1076 1014 1701 1561 1257 1718 1502 636 1308 Total GB(M5): 956 901 1512 1388 1118 1527 1335 565 1163 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9300.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Hh| 65 104 111 58 76 134 82 630 Ny| 312 34 215 224 285 144 1279 On| 34 248 221 394 204 1517 Tc| 48 167 32 16 442 Ts| 168 232 148 1117 Wf| 210 105 1171 Wz| 207 1494 Zc| 906 Number of 2-station scans: 320 Number of 3-station scans: 184 Number of 4-station scans: 166 Number of 5-station scans: 130 Number of 6-station scans: 74 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 874 4278 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO 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 1616+063 1.00 1.50 .35 15 7 1313-333 1.00 1.50 .51 22 20 1030+415 1.00 1.50 .79 34 8 0716+714 1.00 1.50 1.36 58 13 0420+417 1.00 1.50 1.75 75 10 1347+539 1.00 1.50 .94 40 10 3C120 1.00 1.50 1.08 46 10 0657+172 1.00 1.50 1.05 45 10 0039+230 1.00 1.50 1.64 70 16 1738+476 1.00 1.50 1.73 74 9 Total 11.20 479 113 =========================================================== 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 Hh HARTRAO 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) Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Hh 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