Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1275 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 R1275 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-127-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-128-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007127 (2007.35) ( 14228 MJD, MON. 7MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 8: 0:37.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 57.2m 16d 50.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were tagged along to this session. =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0727-115 07127-170000| 120 40 120 40 57 40| 3C418 07127-170207| 66 40 78 78 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc CTA26 07128-165334| 152 152 | 2113+293 07128-165519| 55 55 55 | OK290 07128-165720| 60 60 | 1057-797 07128-165850| 66 66 | 1417+385 07128-165903| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1275.skd for experiment R1275 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.5 Min = .0 Max = 130.9 (Baseline Ts-Zc on 1622-253) RMS = 12.4 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 45 34 26 42 36 55 46 16 38 % cal. time: 3 3 3 3 5 5 5 3 4 % slew time: 35 51 17 9 18 21 17 34 26 % idle time: 16 11 52 46 41 18 31 46 33 total # scans: 259 276 269 219 400 445 453 223 318 # scans/hour : 11 12 11 9 17 19 19 9 13 Avg scan (sec): 151 107 85 166 77 107 87 63 104 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1497 1165 916 1390 1258 1874 1580 589 1284 Total GB(M5): 1331 1035 814 1235 1118 1666 1405 524 1141 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9128.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 126 51 121 9 119 80 39 545 Hh| 36 70 58 54 130 105 579 Ny| 23 171 199 225 86 791 Tc| 35 87 36 19 391 Ts| 222 237 120 852 Wf| 253 95 1029 Wz| 186 1147 Zc| 650 Number of 2-station scans: 307 Number of 3-station scans: 310 Number of 4-station scans: 144 Number of 5-station scans: 69 Number of 6-station scans: 12 Number of 7-station scans: 1 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 843 2992 =========================================================== 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 ZELENCHK 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 0458+138 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1155+251 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0215+015 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 2007+777 1.00 1.50 .57 17 3 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1727+502 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 2235+731 1.00 1.50 .57 17 17 M81 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1416+067 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 2254+074 1.00 1.50 1.07 32 13 Total 2.21 66 33 =========================================================== 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 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Hh 20 Hh 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 Zc 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 12 15 15 15