Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1248 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 R1248 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-303-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-304-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006303 (2006.83) ( 14039 MJD, MON. 30OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:35:28.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 19.1m -13d 53.5 =========================================================== 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 Ma Ny Tc Wf Wz 1611+343 06303-170000| 68 63 73 73 60| 1124-186 06303-170214| 200 180 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf Wz 1815-553 06304-165508| 200 200 | OJ287 06304-165535| 40 40 40 | 0111+021 06304-165629| 98 98| 0955+476 06304-165902| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1248.skd for experiment R1248 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.8 Min = .0 Max = 64.0 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0727-115) RMS = 11.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 30 47 49 29 51 52 42 43 % cal. time: 3 5 5 4 4 5 5 4 % slew time: 46 21 33 19 13 21 14 24 % idle time: 20 26 12 47 31 21 38 29 total # scans: 271 421 455 332 335 447 454 387 # scans/hour : 11 18 19 14 14 19 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 95 97 93 76 132 100 79 95 Total GBytes: 1025 1625 1681 1025 1708 1769 1456 1470 Total GB(M5): 911 1444 1495 911 1518 1572 1294 1306 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9145.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 159 26 25 131 19 27 387 Kk| 110 151 143 202 145 910 Ma| 268 52 258 413 1127 Ny| 20 223 283 970 Tc| 157 38 541 Wf| 254 1113 Wz| 1160 Number of 2-station scans: 396 Number of 3-station scans: 254 Number of 4-station scans: 191 Number of 5-station scans: 77 Number of 6-station scans: 2 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 920 3104 =========================================================== 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 .01 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 140.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.9 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 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 .01 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 140.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.9 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 1514+197 1.00 1.50 1.03 32 15 1705+018 1.00 1.50 1.10 34 13 1012+232 1.00 1.50 1.32 41 11 0400+258 1.00 1.50 1.58 49 10 1039+811 1.00 1.50 2.00 62 8 0620+389 1.00 1.50 .90 28 15 0828+493 1.00 1.50 1.71 53 13 0123+257 1.00 1.50 1.84 57 15 1746+470 1.00 1.50 1.32 41 14 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .35 11 11 Total 13.14 408 125 =========================================================== 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 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC 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) Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 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