Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1260 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 R1260 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-022-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-023-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007022 (2007.06) ( 14123 MJD, MON. 22JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 1: 6:39.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 20h 18.2m -19d 38.9 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were tagged along to this session. =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1351-018 07022-170000| 40 40 | 2145+067 07022-170000| 40 45 45 40 40 | NRAO512 07022-170213| 98 60 98 40 80 86 | 1954-388 07022-170430| 40 40 | 0111+021 07022-170524| 173 173 173 | 1741-038 07022-170556| 187 187 | 0912+029 07022-170559| 40 40 | 1213+350 07022-170752| 40 40 | 0423+051 07022-170917| 200 200 200| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1606+106 07023-164948| 178 200 200 200 | CTA26 07023-165228| 40 40 40 40| OQ172 07023-165344| 113 113 | 0434-188 07023-165355| 61 61 | 0003-066 07023-165601| 74 74 40 40| 1124-186 07023-165631| 40 40 | 1144-379 07023-165748| 40 40 | 2243-123 07023-165759| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1260.skd for experiment R1260 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.7 Min = .0 Max = 82.3 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 2126-158) RMS = 12.9 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 54 29 52 46 43 53 45 19 43 % cal. time: 6 4 6 3 6 5 6 3 5 % slew time: 21 19 29 9 22 19 15 39 22 % idle time: 19 47 12 40 28 22 33 38 30 total # scans: 502 377 511 294 525 456 518 258 430 # scans/hour : 21 16 21 12 22 19 22 11 18 Avg scan (sec): 92 67 87 136 71 100 75 64 85 Total GBytes: 1845 1039 1791 1543 1526 1809 1580 684 1477 Total GB(M5): 1640 923 1592 1371 1357 1608 1405 608 1313 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10504.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Kk| 118 75 152 345 156 88 56 990 Ny| 311 38 192 210 297 144 1310 On| 43 197 218 456 206 1506 Tc| 28 188 44 18 511 Ts| 137 201 137 1237 Wf| 215 96 1220 Wz| 217 1518 Zc| 874 Number of 2-station scans: 478 Number of 3-station scans: 269 Number of 4-station scans: 170 Number of 5-station scans: 112 Number of 6-station scans: 52 Number of 7-station scans: 18 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1099 4583 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: KOKEE 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 0423+051 1.00 1.50 .87 40 26 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .92 42 26 0302+625 1.00 1.50 1.24 57 18 1448+762 1.00 1.50 .83 38 13 0707+476 1.00 1.50 1.24 57 6 OQ172 1.00 1.50 .76 35 22 0912+029 1.00 1.50 .96 44 15 1244-255 1.00 1.50 .79 36 26 1954+513 1.00 1.50 1.46 67 10 1213+350 1.00 1.50 1.44 66 20 Total 10.52 482 182 =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 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) Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Kk 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