Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1272 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 R1272 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-107-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-108-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007107 (2007.29) ( 14208 MJD, TUES 17APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6:41:46.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 41.4m 10d 30.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== Kokee is scheduled for a maintenance day. There is no intensive session scheduled during this session. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 07107-170000| 66 40 66 50| 1622-253 07107-170000| 40 40 | 1044+719 07107-170205| 40 40 40| 2145+067 07107-170217| 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0208-512 07108-165401| 102 102 | 0552+398 07108-165618| 40 80 40 80 40| 0749+540 07108-165814| 57 68 68 47| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1272.skd for experiment R1272 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.8 Min = .0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 0048-097) RMS = 11.6 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 45 31 28 20 49 42 49 42 38 % cal. time: 4 4 4 3 4 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 39 54 51 16 12 23 20 16 29 % idle time: 12 10 16 60 35 28 26 36 28 total # scans: 324 313 338 248 306 492 431 442 361 # scans/hour : 14 13 14 10 13 21 18 18 15 Avg scan (sec): 119 84 72 70 138 74 98 82 91 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1509 1062 1002 711 1634 1479 1675 1472 1318 Total GB(M5): 1342 944 891 632 1452 1315 1489 1308 1172 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9373.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 134 13 64 166 16 162 122 677 Hh| 86 53 82 40 55 139 589 Ho| 13 97 186 17 16 428 Ny| 24 152 169 219 694 Tc| 28 115 43 555 Ts| 196 224 842 Wf| 228 942 Wz| 991 Number of 2-station scans: 585 Number of 3-station scans: 293 Number of 4-station scans: 155 Number of 5-station scans: 39 Number of 6-station scans: 5 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1077 2859 =========================================================== 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: 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 0151+474 1.00 1.50 1.50 43 17 0153+744 1.00 1.50 .84 24 22 1614+051 1.00 1.50 1.47 42 19 0736+017 1.00 1.50 1.36 39 18 1849+670 1.00 1.50 .73 21 21 1004+141 1.00 1.50 1.29 37 16 0821+394 1.00 1.50 .77 22 22 Total 7.97 228 135 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A 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) Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 15