Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1281 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 R1281 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-169-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-170-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007169 (2007.46) ( 14270 MJD, MON. 18JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 10:46:13.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 5h 47.3m 23d 24.3 =========================================================== 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 Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 2209+236 07169-170000| 40 40 40 | 4C39.25 07169-170000| 40 40 40| 2319+272 07169-170208| 52 52 40 | 0552+398 07169-170217| 159 124 159 55 60| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0151+474 07170-165215| 159 159 159 | 1038+064 07170-165221| 200 200| 2052-474 07170-165600| 40 40 | 4C39.25 07170-165617| 40 40 40| 0454-234 07170-165741| 45 45 | 1308+328 07170-165758| 40 68 68| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1281.skd for experiment R1281 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.4 Min = .0 Max = 87.3 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0104-408) RMS = 12.5 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 42 31 39 28 60 34 51 40 41 % cal. time: 3 4 6 4 4 7 6 5 5 % slew time: 37 52 27 20 12 26 22 17 27 % idle time: 17 12 27 47 24 32 20 36 27 total # scans: 254 385 503 364 325 603 488 458 422 # scans/hour : 11 16 21 15 14 25 20 19 18 Avg scan (sec): 142 68 68 67 158 49 90 76 89 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1394 1087 1405 1006 1968 1280 1760 1418 1415 Total GB(M5): 1239 966 1249 894 1749 1137 1565 1260 1257 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10059.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 7 10 43 128 6 102 113 409 Ho| 196 36 118 266 13 15 651 Kk| 191 91 370 213 114 1185 Ny| 31 234 239 244 1018 Tc| 22 108 51 549 Ts| 186 196 1280 Wf| 263 1124 Wz| 996 Number of 2-station scans: 508 Number of 3-station scans: 411 Number of 4-station scans: 200 Number of 5-station scans: 65 Number of 6-station scans: 1 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1185 3606 =========================================================== 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: 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 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0135-247 1.00 1.50 .75 27 17 1308+328 1.00 1.50 2.05 74 17 0954+658 1.00 1.50 1.89 68 10 0400+258 1.00 1.50 1.53 55 18 1502+036 1.00 1.50 1.55 56 24 1821+107 1.00 1.50 1.72 62 22 0151+474 1.00 1.50 1.47 53 17 0605-085 1.00 1.50 .72 26 18 2319+272 1.00 1.50 1.80 65 20 1038+064 1.00 1.50 .92 33 17 Total 14.39 519 180 =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 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 Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 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