Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1277 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 R1277 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-141-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-142-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007141 (2007.39) ( 14242 MJD, MON. 21MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 8:55:49.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 3h 52.4m 20d 12.4 =========================================================== 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 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 Ho Ny Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 07141-170000| 40 40 40 40| 1958-179 07141-170000| 40 40 | 3C418 07141-170205| 68 40 78 78| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Wz 1300+580 07142-164737| 127 55 127 127| 0637-752 07142-164838| 136 136 | 0458-020 07142-165117| 100 100| 1334-127 07142-165128| 40 40 | 0454-234 07142-165334| 49 49 | 2126-158 07142-165347| 40 40 | 3C446 07142-165559| 40 40 | 0607-157 07142-165753| 86 78 83 86| 2113+293 07142-165835| 65 65 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1277.skd for experiment R1277 (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 = 90.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 0048-097) RMS = 11.2 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 34 33 23 28 40 51 46 36 % cal. time: 3 4 4 3 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 41 54 50 15 24 20 15 32 % idle time: 20 8 22 53 29 24 33 28 total # scans: 288 321 327 246 507 422 392 357 # scans/hour : 12 13 14 10 21 18 16 15 Avg scan (sec): 102 88 61 97 68 105 102 88 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1164 1129 836 947 1418 1740 1581 1259 Total GB(M5): 1034 1004 743 842 1260 1547 1405 1119 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7835.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 158 5 49 8 165 93 478 Hh| 98 52 49 63 124 544 Ho| 18 243 19 26 409 Ny| 154 192 195 660 Ts| 197 214 865 Wf| 238 874 Wz| 890 Number of 2-station scans: 554 Number of 3-station scans: 226 Number of 4-station scans: 153 Number of 5-station scans: 21 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 954 2360 =========================================================== 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 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 1610-771 1.00 1.50 .34 8 8 1738+476 1.00 1.50 2.25 53 14 NGC1218 1.00 1.50 .81 19 10 2214+350 1.00 1.50 1.27 30 12 1746+470 1.00 1.50 1.06 25 12 0738+491 1.00 1.50 .51 12 12 2017+743 1.00 1.50 .72 17 17 1402+044 1.00 1.50 1.10 26 13 0239+108 1.00 1.50 .89 21 10 Total 8.94 211 108 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 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 Ts Wf Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15