Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1268 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 R1268 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-078-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-079-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007078 (2007.21) ( 14179 MJD, MON. 19MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:47:26.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 55.3m 0d 30.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. 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 Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0955+476 07078-170000| 40 40 40| 3C446 07078-170000| 138 63 138 114 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 2121+053 07079-165605| 200 200 | 1300+580 07079-165609| 129 121 77 131 131| 1044+719 07079-165856| 40 40 48 48| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1268.skd for experiment R1268 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.1 Min = .0 Max = 64.5 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 3C446 ) RMS = 11.9 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 48 51 24 49 44 50 41 44 % cal. time: 4 5 4 3 6 5 5 5 % slew time: 38 25 18 10 22 20 14 22 % idle time: 10 18 53 36 27 24 39 30 total # scans: 305 455 308 288 511 449 439 393 # scans/hour : 13 19 13 12 21 19 18 16 Avg scan (sec): 136 96 67 148 75 96 80 99 Total GBytes: 1607 1736 851 1641 1562 1712 1422 1505 Total GB(M5): 1428 1543 757 1459 1389 1522 1264 1337 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9361.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 48 57 191 15 184 120 615 Kk| 139 103 351 171 120 932 Ny| 19 210 201 245 871 Tc| 26 138 48 525 Ts| 165 239 1006 Wf| 260 1119 Wz| 1032 Number of 2-station scans: 448 Number of 3-station scans: 268 Number of 4-station scans: 168 Number of 5-station scans: 67 Number of 6-station scans: 8 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 959 3050 =========================================================== 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: KOKEE 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: 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 M84 1.00 1.50 .56 17 17 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .39 12 12 0109+224 1.00 1.50 .39 12 12 1504-166 1.00 1.50 .92 28 16 1219+285 1.00 1.50 .69 21 21 1451-375 1.00 1.50 .49 15 15 Total 3.44 105 93 =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE 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) Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Kk 20 Kk 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