Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1249 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 R1249 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2006-310-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-311-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006310 (2006.85) ( 14046 MJD, MON. 6NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20: 3: 4.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 46.7m -16d 4.9 =========================================================== 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 On Tc Wf Wz 0743+259 06310-170000| 40 40 | 1611+343 06310-170000| 84 79 171 171 91 75| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0319+121 06311-165131| 178 200 200 200 200 | 1124-186 06311-165303| 200 200 | 0552+398 06311-165545| 47 40 47 40| 0749+540 06311-165717| 115 105 99 140 140 109| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1249.skd for experiment R1249 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 10.7 Min = .0 Max = 60.0 (Baseline Kk-Ma on 0319+121) RMS = 12.1 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ma Ny On Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 31 45 46 33 50 49 53 37 43 % cal. time: 3 5 6 5 6 3 5 6 5 % slew time: 47 21 35 20 27 11 19 14 25 % idle time: 17 29 12 41 16 36 22 43 27 total # scans: 285 409 500 400 479 291 437 493 411 # scans/hour : 12 17 21 17 20 12 18 21 17 Avg scan (sec): 95 95 79 72 90 145 105 65 92 Total GBytes: 1078 1540 1605 1183 1730 1623 1813 1324 1487 Total GB(M5): 959 1369 1427 1051 1538 1443 1612 1176 1322 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10574.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ho| 181 22 19 15 109 13 17 376 Kk| 96 135 119 120 184 111 946 Ma| 343 443 38 264 456 1662 Ny| 365 25 257 344 1488 On| 31 272 442 1687 Tc| 143 37 503 Wf| 260 1393 Wz| 1667 Number of 2-station scans: 380 Number of 3-station scans: 182 Number of 4-station scans: 169 Number of 5-station scans: 152 Number of 6-station scans: 85 Number of 7-station scans: 6 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 974 4861 =========================================================== 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 ONSALA60 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 1030+074 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 2000-330 1.00 1.50 .43 21 21 1451-400 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 2254+024 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0530-727 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1656+477 1.00 1.50 1.69 82 9 1538+149 1.00 1.50 1.63 79 14 1252+119 1.00 1.50 1.17 57 16 0319+121 1.00 1.50 1.13 55 13 0917+449 1.00 1.50 1.63 79 10 Total 7.67 373 83 =========================================================== 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 TFF =========================================================== 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 On ONSALA60 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 On Tc Wf Ho Kk Ma Ny On Tc Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15