Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1256 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 R1256 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2006-361-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2006-362-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2006361 (2006.99) ( 14097 MJD, WED. 27DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23:24: 9.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 18h 25.3m -23d 18.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. Zelenchukskaya and Westford 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 Ft Hh Ny Tc Wf Wz Zc 2021+614 06361-170000| 40 40 40| 0805+410 06361-170221| 128 128 | 0149+218 06361-170520| 156 156 71| 1606+106 06361-170548| 193 193 85 | 2351+456 06361-171203| 200 200 200| 2029+121 06361-171220| 161 161 161 | 1150+812 06361-171626| 40 40 40 | 0208-512 06361-171824| 189 189 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Tc Wf Wz Zc 0208-512 06362-164530| 105 105 | 1300+580 06362-164816| 61 61 61 43| 0955+476 06362-164959| 40 40 40 | 0602+673 06362-165121| 40 40 40| 1958-179 06362-165210| 48 48 48 | 0552+398 06362-165237| 40 40 | 0556+238 06362-165353| 93 93 | 2052-474 06362-165519| 156 156 | 2201+315 06362-165745| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1256.skd for experiment R1256 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.7 Min = .0 Max = 50.5 (Baseline Wf-Wz on 0454-234) RMS = 10.9 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ft Hh Ny Tc Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 51 34 42 41 23 43 15 36 % cal. time: 3 3 5 3 3 6 3 4 % slew time: 36 49 23 8 12 17 36 26 % idle time: 9 13 29 47 61 33 45 34 total # scans: 289 262 467 226 250 527 241 323 # scans/hour : 12 11 19 9 10 22 10 13 Avg scan (sec): 151 113 77 157 80 71 55 100 Total GBytes: 1679 1160 1465 1362 811 1538 563 1225 Total GB(M5): 1493 1031 1302 1211 721 1367 500 1089 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7625.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny Tc Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 144 55 201 109 96 49 654 Hh| 74 108 53 149 88 616 Ny| 23 187 439 197 975 Tc| 76 42 14 464 Wf| 186 75 686 Wz| 230 1142 Zc| 653 Number of 2-station scans: 252 Number of 3-station scans: 318 Number of 4-station scans: 129 Number of 5-station scans: 42 Number of 6-station scans: 13 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 754 2595 =========================================================== 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= 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: HARTRAO NYALES20 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1150+812 1.00 1.50 2.12 55 12 2021+614 1.00 1.50 1.31 34 16 2351+456 1.00 1.50 1.43 37 19 1116+128 1.00 1.50 .96 25 7 0420+417 1.00 1.50 1.81 47 11 0149+218 1.00 1.50 1.62 42 13 2029+121 1.00 1.50 1.31 34 8 0736+017 1.00 1.50 .69 18 4 1354-152 1.00 1.50 .96 25 7 1725+044 1.00 1.50 1.04 27 6 Total 13.26 344 103 =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD 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) Ft Hh Ny Tc Wf Wz Ft Hh Ny Tc Wf Wz Hh 20 Hh 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 Wf 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