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 Wf Wz Zc 2145+067 06345-170000| 49 41 49 40 | 1611+343 06345-170157| 79 184 184 91 84 | 2126-158 06345-170432| 200 200 200 | 1842+681 06345-170933| 113 200 60 200 105 57| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0208-512 06346-165250| 97 97 | 0059+581 06346-165535| 40 40 40 40 40 40| 0552+398 06346-165729| 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== 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) = 9.6 Min = .0 Max = 67.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0607-157) RMS = 12.0 Total time: 1438 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: 32 30 49 43 37 53 41 17 38 % cal. time: 3 4 5 3 5 5 5 3 4 % slew time: 53 20 30 11 19 21 16 41 27 % idle time: 10 45 14 42 38 19 37 38 31 total # scans: 292 371 474 284 400 460 457 265 375 # scans/hour : 12 15 20 12 17 19 19 11 16 Avg scan (sec): 95 69 90 131 80 100 77 56 86 Total GBytes: 1103 1055 1700 1437 1297 1817 1425 626 1307 Total GB(M5): 980 938 1511 1277 1153 1615 1267 556 1162 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9297.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Hh| 64 113 103 67 50 147 105 649 Ny| 323 26 216 226 291 177 1323 On| 49 230 250 373 208 1546 Tc| 40 157 38 16 429 Ts| 198 206 141 1098 Wf| 225 117 1223 Wz| 216 1496 Zc| 980 Number of 2-station scans: 361 Number of 3-station scans: 164 Number of 4-station scans: 154 Number of 5-station scans: 135 Number of 6-station scans: 83 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 897 4372 =========================================================== 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= 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 25 23 0850+581 1.00 1.50 1.53 67 12 1219+285 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 3C120 1.00 1.50 1.01 44 12 0952+179 1.00 1.50 .82 36 14 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.44 63 6 1532+016 1.00 1.50 .98 43 17 2329-162 1.00 1.50 .50 22 14 0039+230 1.00 1.50 1.05 46 20 0745+241 1.00 1.50 1.14 50 15 Total 9.06 396 133 =========================================================== 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 10000.100E+10 Ny NYALES20 MARK5A 10000.100E+10 On ONSALA60 MARK5A 10000.100E+10 Tc TIGOCONC MARK5A 10000.100E+10 Ts TSUKUB32 MARK5A 10000.100E+10 Wf WESTFORD MARK5A 10000.100E+10 Wz WETTZELL MARK5A 10000.100E+10 Zc ZELENCHK MARK5A 10000.100E+10 =========================================================== 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