Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1285 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 R1285 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-197-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-198-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007197 (2007.54) ( 14298 MJD, MON. 16JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12:36:36.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 7h 42.7m 21d 20.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information 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 Observation listing from file ./r1285.skd for experiment R1285 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz 0059+581 07197-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| End of listing. Observation listing from file ./r1285.skd for experiment R1285 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz 0059+581 07197-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| 0528+134 07197-170158| 40 40 | 1749+096 07197-170159| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz 1334-127 07198-165524| 60 60 40| 0552+398 07198-165756| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1285.skd for experiment R1285 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 14.1 Min = .0 Max = 58.8 (Baseline Kk-Wz on 1749+096) RMS = 15.5 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 18 30 27 42 44 37 33 % cal. time: 3 5 6 7 8 7 6 % slew time: 46 22 25 36 27 20 30 % idle time: 32 41 41 14 21 35 31 total # scans: 258 463 481 615 660 602 513 # scans/hour : 11 19 20 26 28 25 21 Avg scan (sec): 61 56 49 59 57 53 55 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 655 1106 1016 1526 1590 1366 1210 Total GB(M5): 583 983 903 1356 1413 1215 1075 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6452.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Hh| 0 80 179 108 209 576 Kk| 261 228 414 204 1107 Ny| 423 377 366 1507 On| 393 534 1757 Wf| 354 1646 Wz| 1667 Number of 2-station scans: 307 Number of 3-station scans: 223 Number of 4-station scans: 219 Number of 5-station scans: 184 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 933 4130 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.99 82 15 2021+317 1.00 1.50 1.23 51 18 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .41 17 17 Total 3.63 150 50 =========================================================== 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 F =========================================================== 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 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) Hh Kk Ny On Wf Hh Kk Ny On Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15