EUROPE-85 (EUROPEAN Geodetic VLBI Network session No. 85) 2007 Jan. 08/09 doy 008/009 Institute for Geodesy and GeoInformation of the University of Bonn, Germany Nominal start time: 2007-008-1200 UT Nominal end time: 2007-009-1200 UT Duration: 24 hrs Purpose ======= The purpose of this experiment is to determine station coordinates and their evolution in the southern part of the European geodetic VLBI network with the highest precision possible. Schedule ======== The schedule was optimized for local sky coverage. Scans are scheduled to have scan length purely according to SNR limits. No time second modulo is applied. The sky coverage for all stations were optimized. The minimum SNR on all baselines is at X band and at S band different. ATTENTION to all participate network stations ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a new and different frequence setup for all stations! Please be carefully and setup the recording mode as discribed in the schedule and as well as in this Experiment INFO file. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INFO e-vlbi =========== We plan to transfer recorded data via e-vlbi to Bonn from Onsala, Metshovi and Medicina. In addition the mk5-modules would send to Bonn from this stations. Shipping modules can be done after e-vlbi transfer. Thanks to this stations for cooperation and support. Estimated total Gbytes to transfer Mc 260 Mh 658 On 598 SCHEDULE-INFO ============= Parameter values for experiment EURO85 Experiment description: EUROPE-85 Scheduler: GIUB/am Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2007-008-12:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-009-12:00:01 Current yyyyddd: 2007008 (2007.02) ( 14109 MJD, MON. 8JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:10:38.00 (12: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 17.2m -22d 15.1 =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:30 U.T. to 19:30 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this one hour period. =========================================================== First observations Observation listing from file euro85.skd for experiment EURO85 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss 6a Ma Mc Mh Nt Ny On Sv Wz 1611+343 07008-120000| 30 30 30 32 48 48 32 30 30| 1308+326 07008-120618| 109 360 115 360 360 352 360 96 215| =========================================================== Last observations 2145+067 07009-114738| 30 30 30 30 30| 0552+398 07009-114848| 44 30 44 30 | 2255-282 07009-114949| 64 47 64 | End of listing. =========================================================== Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 7.3 Min = .0 Max = 43.6 (Baseline 6a-Ny on CTA26 ) RMS = 9.5 Total time: 1431 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: 6a=DSS65A Ma=MATERA Mc=MEDICINA Mh=METSAHOV Nt=NOTO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sv=SVETLOE Wz=WETTZELL 6a Ma Mc Mh Nt Ny On Sv Wz Avg % obs. time: 10 31 17 43 25 25 39 17 22 25 % cal. time: 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 % slew time: 60 19 31 36 32 12 17 43 7 29 % idle time: 26 46 48 17 39 59 41 36 67 43 total # scans: 244 243 309 249 252 220 242 300 235 254 # scans/hour : 10.2 10.2 13.0 10.4 10.6 9.2 10.1 12.6 9.9 10.7 Avg scan (sec): 35 110 47 147 86 97 137 47 79 86 Total GBytes: 154 483 260 658 389 384 598 256 333 391 Total GB(M5): 137 429 231 585 346 341 531 227 296 347 # of tapes : .3 .8 .4 1.1 .6 .6 1.0 .4 .6 Total number of tapes: 5.9 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 3124.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | 6a Ma Mc Mh Nt Ny On Sv Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- 6a|244 179 241 169 200 147 166 215 171 1488 Ma| 243 240 225 229 194 213 222 215 1717 Mc| 309 229 249 199 224 276 229 1887 Mh| 249 212 213 230 239 217 1734 Nt| 252 181 200 226 206 1703 Ny| 220 202 216 191 1543 On| 242 231 213 1679 Sv| 300 221 1846 Wz| 235 1663 Number of 2-station scans: 5 Number of 3-station scans: 45 Number of 4-station scans: 38 Number of 5-station scans: 15 Number of 6-station scans: 8 Number of 7-station scans: 28 Number of 8-station scans: 77 Number of 9-station scans: 118 Total # of scans, observations: 334 7630 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code EUR2-SX SX Recording mode setup for: DSS65A MATERA MEDICINA NOTO NYALES20 ONSALA60 SVETLOE WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 128.000 Mbits 64.000 MHz 14 1 16 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 80.00 X-band spanned bw= 360.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 140.2 MHz S-band spanned bw= 80.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 30.2 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: METSAHOV Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel VLBA1:2 128.000 Mbits 64.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 80.00 X-band spanned bw= 360.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 140.2 MHz S-band spanned bw= 80.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 30.2 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Major Options SkyCov Yes Min_Between 25 Best% 85.0 Last_Hrs 1.00 Add_ps 30.00 Obs_Wts SNRwt ===========================================================