Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1278 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 R1278 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-149-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-150-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007149 (2007.41) ( 14250 MJD, TUES 29MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 9:27:22.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 4h 24.7m 21d 38.0 =========================================================== 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 Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 07149-170000| 126 40 126 40 55| 1958-179 07149-170000| 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0454-234 07150-165258| 200 200 | 0656+082 07150-165309| 143 143| 1519-273 07150-165503| 40 40 40 | 0556+238 07150-165609| 120 120 120| 1424-418 07150-165724| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1278.skd for experiment R1278 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.0 Min = .0 Max = 72.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0920-397) RMS = 11.1 Total time: 1438 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 33 32 26 54 39 56 46 41 % cal. time: 3 3 4 3 3 5 5 5 4 % slew time: 32 53 52 16 11 21 19 15 28 % idle time: 19 10 11 55 31 33 19 33 27 total # scans: 251 297 331 242 281 468 396 411 334 # scans/hour : 10 12 14 10 12 20 17 17 14 Avg scan (sec): 154 96 84 93 165 71 123 97 110 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1482 1131 1126 895 1774 1373 1897 1590 1408 Total GB(M5): 1317 1005 1001 796 1577 1220 1686 1414 1252 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10015.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 108 4 29 114 7 119 81 462 Hh| 83 38 78 46 57 134 544 Ho| 10 103 185 14 17 416 Ny| 18 162 171 203 631 Tc| 23 104 38 478 Ts| 182 218 823 Wf| 219 866 Wz| 910 Number of 2-station scans: 542 Number of 3-station scans: 281 Number of 4-station scans: 160 Number of 5-station scans: 22 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1005 2565 =========================================================== 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 2146-783 1.00 1.50 .08 2 2 0920-397 1.00 1.50 .70 18 14 1610-771 1.00 1.50 .19 5 5 0821+394 1.00 1.50 1.21 31 15 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .35 9 9 1849+670 1.00 1.50 1.56 40 8 0153+744 1.00 1.50 .82 21 19 0420-014 1.00 1.50 1.48 38 16 Total 6.39 164 88 =========================================================== 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