Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1254 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 R1254 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-345-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-346-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006345 (2006.95) ( 14081 MJD, MON. 11DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 22:21: 4.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 14.4m -23d 1.4 =========================================================== 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 Wz Zc 0229+131 06345-170000| 154 154 154 153 44 40| 1124-186 06345-170353| 119 119 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wz Zc 0059+581 06346-165410| 40 40 40 40 40| 0208-512 06346-165417| 97 97 | 2329-162 06346-165615| 200 200 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1254.skd for experiment R1254 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 10.8 Min = .0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Hh-Tc on 1611+343) RMS = 14.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 31 29 46 32 34 42 16 33 % cal. time: 4 4 6 2 4 6 3 4 % slew time: 56 20 32 7 17 16 39 27 % idle time: 9 46 15 57 43 35 40 35 total # scans: 303 366 498 207 385 492 265 359 # scans/hour : 13 15 21 9 16 21 11 15 Avg scan (sec): 89 68 79 134 77 74 53 81 Total GBytes: 1080 1031 1601 1072 1211 1484 601 1154 Total GB(M5): 960 916 1423 953 1076 1319 534 1026 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7181.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Hh| 80 132 129 57 152 112 662 Ny| 350 29 233 320 178 1190 On| 56 271 420 223 1452 Tc| 46 48 20 328 Ts| 260 154 1021 Wz| 228 1428 Zc| 915 Number of 2-station scans: 236 Number of 3-station scans: 163 Number of 4-station scans: 188 Number of 5-station scans: 145 Number of 6-station scans: 13 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 745 3498 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC 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= 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: 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= 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 0309+411 1.00 1.50 .57 20 16 0850+581 1.00 1.50 1.29 45 7 1219+285 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 3C120 1.00 1.50 1.29 45 7 0952+179 1.00 1.50 1.14 40 9 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.89 66 9 1532+016 1.00 1.50 .83 29 9 2329-162 1.00 1.50 .86 30 14 0039+230 1.00 1.50 1.80 63 18 0745+241 1.00 1.50 1.29 45 10 Total 10.95 383 99 =========================================================== 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 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 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 Wz Hh Ny On Tc Ts 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 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 Zc 20 20 20 15 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 12 15 15