Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1263 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 R1263 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-043-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-044-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007043 (2007.12) ( 14144 MJD, MON. 12FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 2:29:27.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 43.7m -13d 39.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was 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 Hh Kk Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz 0637-752 07043-170000| 76 76 | 1739+522 07043-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kk Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz 0823+033 07044-165518| 59 85 85 48| 1749+096 07044-165715| 79 79 | 1144-379 07044-165808| 40 40 | 0402-362 07044-165813| 76 76| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1263.skd for experiment R1263 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.4 Min = .0 Max = 72.0 (Baseline Sh-Tc on 0607-157) RMS = 11.6 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Hh Kk Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 30 49 31 49 38 51 52 41 42 % cal. time: 3 5 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 % slew time: 51 23 21 29 35 12 19 16 26 % idle time: 14 23 43 16 22 32 23 37 27 total # scans: 281 410 378 460 377 328 421 461 389 # scans/hour : 12 17 16 19 16 14 18 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 93 103 70 92 86 135 106 76 94 Total GBytes: 1045 1665 1091 1683 736 1707 1755 1427 1389 Total GB(M5): 929 1480 970 1496 1163 1518 1560 1268 1298 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10384.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Kk Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Hh| 0 40 103 64 120 64 113 504 Kk| 133 92 189 142 164 116 836 Ny| 314 192 24 201 274 1178 On| 182 33 214 377 1315 Sh| 2 106 148 883 Tc| 160 34 515 Wf| 198 1107 Wz| 1260 Number of 2-station scans: 486 Number of 3-station scans: 259 Number of 4-station scans: 156 Number of 5-station scans: 103 Number of 6-station scans: 38 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1042 3799 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC WESTFORD 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: SESHAN25 Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 144.000 Mbits 72.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 .01 X-band spanned bw= 300.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 115.8 MHz S-band spanned bw= 130.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.2 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 5.000 4.000 9.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0821+394 1.00 1.50 .39 15 15 1022+194 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1856+736 1.00 1.50 .39 15 15 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.55 59 14 0952+179 1.00 1.50 1.16 44 13 2214+350 1.00 1.50 1.55 59 9 Total 5.05 192 66 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF TFF =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Hh Kk Ny On Sh Tc Wf Hh Kk Ny On Sh Tc Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15