Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1267 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 R1267 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-071-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-072-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007071 (2007.19) ( 14172 MJD, MON. 12MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:19: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 29.6m -3d 16.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. =========================================================== 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 Ft Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz 3C446 07071-170000| 138 65 138 114 | OJ287 07071-170000| 40 40| 1611+343 07071-170252| 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz CTA26 07072-165507| 200 200 187 | 1044+719 07072-165626| 46 92 92| 1124-186 07072-165910| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1267.skd for experiment R1267 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 74.5 (Baseline Tc-Ts on OJ287 ) RMS = 12.0 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 47 30 44 51 39 53 42 44 % cal. time: 3 4 5 4 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 38 51 24 11 24 20 15 27 % idle time: 10 14 25 34 30 21 37 25 total # scans: 294 314 418 303 519 439 411 385 # scans/hour : 12 13 17 13 22 18 17 16 Avg scan (sec): 139 83 92 144 65 104 89 101 Total GBytes: 1573 1056 1529 1681 1399 1804 1460 1500 Total GB(M5): 1398 938 1359 1494 1243 1604 1298 1334 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9335.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 13 40 169 20 160 114 516 Ho| 141 94 203 11 14 476 Kk| 86 271 172 114 824 Tc| 19 109 40 517 Ts| 150 202 865 Wf| 241 843 Wz| 725 Number of 2-station scans: 616 Number of 3-station scans: 303 Number of 4-station scans: 128 Number of 5-station scans: 9 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1056 2383 =========================================================== 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 0.01 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 0.01 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: KOKEE 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 0.01 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 0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.72 41 12 1226+373 1.00 1.50 1.01 24 24 3C245 1.00 1.50 0.67 16 16 0754+100 1.00 1.50 1.05 25 13 2007+777 1.00 1.50 0.92 22 8 1743+173 1.00 1.50 0.92 22 14 1055+018 1.00 1.50 1.34 32 15 1236+077 1.00 1.50 1.09 26 17 0502+049 1.00 1.50 1.09 26 15 1451-375 1.00 1.50 1.05 25 16 Total 10.87 259 150 =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE 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) Ft Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Ft Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 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