Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1245 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 R1245 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-282-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-283-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006282 (2006.77) ( 14018 MJD, MON. 9OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18:12:41.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 59.9m -6d 23.7 =========================================================== 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 Ma Ny On Wf Wz 0836+710 06282-170000| 40 40 40 47 47 40| 1357+769 06282-170127| 200 200 200 200 200 200| 0229+131 06282-170553| 43 43 | 3C274 06282-170559| 40 102 102 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ma Ny On Wf Wz 1842+681 06283-165212| 122 113 200 200 105| 0537-441 06283-165327| 40 40 | 1923+210 06283-165612| 100 100 | 0342+147 06283-165625| 200 200 | 1308+326 06283-165648| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1245.skd for experiment R1245 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.9 Min = .0 Max = 64.0 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0727-115) RMS = 9.7 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Ma Ny On Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 32 29 49 52 36 50 55 47 44 % cal. time: 3 3 5 5 4 5 5 5 4 % slew time: 36 44 19 30 18 24 19 12 26 % idle time: 29 23 26 12 41 20 21 36 27 total # scans: 251 264 399 432 331 405 412 414 363 # scans/hour : 10 11 17 18 14 17 17 17 15 Avg scan (sec): 110 94 107 104 95 106 115 97 102 Total GBytes: 1080 990 1676 1770 1250 1685 1847 1597 1487 Total GB(M5): 960 880 1490 1573 1111 1497 1642 1419 1321 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10571.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ma Ny On Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 25 43 77 45 70 175 72 507 Ho| 212 22 28 12 12 20 331 Kk| 69 121 102 152 92 791 Ma| 244 320 186 373 1291 Ny| 263 189 240 1130 On| 218 298 1283 Wf| 183 1115 Wz| 1278 Number of 2-station scans: 434 Number of 3-station scans: 197 Number of 4-station scans: 137 Number of 5-station scans: 96 Number of 6-station scans: 69 Number of 7-station scans: 1 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 934 3863 =========================================================== 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 MATERA 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 1800+440 1.00 1.50 1.35 52 15 2329-162 1.00 1.50 .60 23 19 1639+230 1.00 1.50 1.40 54 16 1504+377 1.00 1.50 1.19 46 22 0735+178 1.00 1.50 1.89 73 18 0342+147 1.00 1.50 .54 21 21 1216+487 1.00 1.50 1.50 58 7 1111+149 1.00 1.50 1.24 48 22 0836+710 1.00 1.50 1.76 68 6 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.68 65 5 Total 13.15 508 151 =========================================================== 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 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 Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ma MATERA 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 Ma Ny On Wf Ft Ho Kk Ma Ny On Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15