Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1264 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 R1264 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-051-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-052-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007051 (2007.14) ( 14152 MJD, TUES 20FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 3: 0:59.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 14.7m -10d 52.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== There is no intensive during this session. Kokee is scheduled for a maintenance day. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1749+096 07051-170000| 79 80 40 80 | CTA26 07051-170000| 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0133+476 07052-165518| 40 40 40| 1424-418 07052-165611| 82 200 200 | 0749+540 07052-165701| 73 73| 0607-157 07052-165859| 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1264.skd for experiment R1264 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.5 Min = .0 Max = 66.1 (Baseline Wf-Wz on 0454-234) RMS = 12.5 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 32 34 20 52 40 54 42 39 % cal. time: 3 4 3 4 5 5 5 4 % slew time: 52 51 15 12 22 20 16 27 % idle time: 12 11 62 32 32 20 36 29 total # scans: 296 330 240 327 448 433 442 359 # scans/hour : 12 14 10 14 19 18 18 15 Avg scan (sec): 93 89 71 137 78 107 82 93 Total GBytes: 1094 1175 696 1726 1417 1824 1459 1341 Total GB(M5): 973 1044 618 1534 1259 1621 1297 1192 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8346.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Hh| 72 38 97 44 73 166 490 Ho| 7 104 200 13 18 414 Ny| 22 133 169 223 592 Tc| 28 179 59 489 Ts| 148 183 736 Wf| 239 821 Wz| 888 Number of 2-station scans: 583 Number of 3-station scans: 272 Number of 4-station scans: 126 Number of 5-station scans: 6 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 987 2215 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO NYALES20 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: 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 2254+024 1.00 1.50 .45 10 10 0818-128 1.00 1.50 .63 14 14 1610-771 1.00 1.50 .18 4 4 0812+367 1.00 1.50 1.58 35 13 1749+701 1.00 1.50 .77 17 17 0859+470 1.00 1.50 1.94 43 14 1030+074 1.00 1.50 .59 13 13 1221+809 1.00 1.50 .72 16 16 1600+335 1.00 1.50 1.26 28 15 0256+075 1.00 1.50 1.76 39 15 Total 9.89 219 131 =========================================================== 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 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 Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 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