Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1259 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2007.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1259 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-015-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-016-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007015 (2007.04) ( 14116 MJD, MON. 15JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 0:39: 3.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 48.4m -21d 6.1 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. Fortaleza and Ny Alesund 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 Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz 1236+077 07015-170000| 40 40 | 2145+067 07015-170000| 40 40 40 40| 0528+134 07015-170200| 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz 0133+476 07016-164441| 40 40 40| 1255-316 07016-164653| 40 40 | 2052-474 07016-164748| 200 200 | 1124-186 07016-164911| 40 40 | 1034-293 07016-165114| 40 40 | 0859-140 07016-165350| 44 44 | 0221+067 07016-165532| 200 200 200| 0722+145 07016-165631| 47 47 | OJ287 07016-165909| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1259.skd for experiment R1259 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.9 Min = .0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1128+385) RMS = 13.0 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 14 33 33 15 46 32 35 30 % cal. time: 2 3 4 3 3 6 5 4 % slew time: 21 52 53 13 11 22 15 27 % idle time: 63 11 8 69 39 39 44 39 total # scans: 142 288 356 226 298 493 432 319 # scans/hour : 6 12 15 9 12 21 18 13 Avg scan (sec): 84 100 81 56 133 56 71 82 Total GBytes: 483 1144 1162 536 1538 1167 1253 1040 Total GB(M5): 429 1017 1033 476 1367 1037 1113 925 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6472.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 117 15 17 109 8 83 349 Hh| 40 52 145 37 173 564 Ho| 9 136 221 12 433 Ny| 10 179 224 491 Tc| 29 75 504 Ts| 265 739 Wz| 832 Number of 2-station scans: 456 Number of 3-station scans: 328 Number of 4-station scans: 81 Number of 5-station scans: 3 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 868 1956 =========================================================== 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 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 Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 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 1236+077 1.00 1.50 .82 16 9 1508-055 1.00 1.50 .26 5 5 4C67.05 1.00 1.50 2.20 43 17 0722+145 1.00 1.50 1.23 24 10 1743+173 1.00 1.50 1.07 21 9 0859-140 1.00 1.50 .66 13 11 0917+449 1.00 1.50 2.25 44 15 1642+690 1.00 1.50 1.69 33 15 0221+067 1.00 1.50 1.02 20 12 2250+194 1.00 1.50 .72 14 12 Total 11.91 233 115 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15