Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1284 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 R1284 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-190-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-191-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007190 (2007.52) ( 14291 MJD, MON. 9JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12: 9: .00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 7h 14.2m 22d 20.5 =========================================================== 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 07190-170000| 132 132 40 | 1749+096 07190-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0607-157 07191-165315| 87 87 | 1606+106 07191-165335| 40 40 | CTA26 07191-165523| 188 188 | 1611+343 07191-165621| 40 40 40 40| 2318+049 07191-165825| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1284.skd for experiment R1284 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.9 Min = .0 Max = 64.0 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0727-115) RMS = 11.6 Total time: 1439 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: 41 31 33 25 53 41 52 40 39 % cal. time: 3 4 4 3 3 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 37 54 53 18 11 25 20 17 30 % idle time: 18 10 9 53 32 27 21 37 26 total # scans: 280 316 369 282 300 537 455 452 373 # scans/hour : 12 13 15 12 13 22 19 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 126 85 78 75 152 66 99 76 94 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1374 1080 1167 867 1746 1472 1788 1398 1362 Total GB(M5): 1222 960 1037 770 1552 1309 1589 1243 1210 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9682.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 126 5 53 107 7 119 88 505 Hh| 57 55 63 55 42 151 549 Ho| 15 123 216 18 14 448 Ny| 28 155 190 227 723 Tc| 33 109 44 507 Ts| 206 207 879 Wf| 237 921 Wz| 968 Number of 2-station scans: 670 Number of 3-station scans: 315 Number of 4-station scans: 140 Number of 5-station scans: 28 Number of 6-station scans: 1 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1154 2750 =========================================================== 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 0629-418 1.00 1.50 .51 14 14 0600+177 1.00 1.50 .51 14 14 1020+400 1.00 1.50 1.27 35 17 1417+273 1.00 1.50 1.42 39 19 1435+638 1.00 1.50 1.42 39 12 1657-261 1.00 1.50 .76 21 17 1751+441 1.00 1.50 1.13 31 19 0544+273 1.00 1.50 .47 13 13 1215+303 1.00 1.50 .69 19 19 Total 8.18 225 144 =========================================================== 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