Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1286 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 R1286 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-204-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-205-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007204 (2007.56) ( 14305 MJD, MON. 23JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13: 4:12.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 10.7m 20d 2.9 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. =========================================================== 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 Hh Kk Tc Wf Wz 4C39.25 07204-170000| 49 108 40 108| 0059+581 07204-170232| 40 40 40| NRAO512 07204-170357| 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Kk Tc Wf Wz 1923+210 07205-165550| 45 45| 4C39.25 07205-165616| 49 49 | 0620+389 07205-165734| 88 88 82| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1286.skd for experiment R1286 (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 = 60.0 (Baseline Kk-Wz on 1749+096) RMS = 12.6 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Kk Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 41 33 45 56 51 46 45 % cal. time: 3 3 5 4 6 5 4 % slew time: 36 51 21 12 21 15 27 % idle time: 19 12 28 27 21 33 24 total # scans: 277 301 399 314 482 449 370 # scans/hour : 12 13 17 13 20 19 15 Avg scan (sec): 128 95 97 155 92 88 108 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1380 1136 1543 1863 1762 1582 1544 Total GB(M5): 1227 1010 1371 1656 1566 1406 1373 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8235.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Kk Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ft| 142 28 134 111 71 486 Hh| 0 66 47 187 442 Kk| 154 263 138 583 Tc| 127 50 531 Wf| 257 805 Wz| 703 Number of 2-station scans: 628 Number of 3-station scans: 223 Number of 4-station scans: 58 Number of 5-station scans: 13 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 922 1775 =========================================================== 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 KOKEE 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 NGC1218 1.00 1.50 1.01 18 18 0219+428 1.00 1.50 1.46 26 18 0406+121 1.00 1.50 1.01 18 14 1342+662 1.00 1.50 1.46 26 10 0620+389 1.00 1.50 1.46 26 16 NRAO512 1.00 1.50 1.35 24 15 Total 7.77 138 91 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC 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 Kk Tc Wf Ft Hh Kk Tc Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15