Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1287 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 R1287 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-211-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-212-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007211 (2007.58) ( 14312 MJD, MON. 30JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:31:48.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 38.2m 18d 28.8 =========================================================== 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 0454-234 07211-170000| 49 80 80 | 1741-038 07211-170000| 40 40| 0727-115 07211-170200| 127 42 127 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Kk Tc Wf Wz 1255-316 07212-165331| 105 105| CTA26 07212-165408| 137 200 200 | 1124-186 07212-165552| 200 200| 0454-234 07212-165804| 49 81 81 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1287.skd for experiment R1287 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.5 Min = .0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Kk-Wz on 2318+049) RMS = 12.8 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: 42 29 44 57 53 42 45 % cal. time: 3 4 5 4 6 6 4 % slew time: 37 52 23 11 22 17 27 % idle time: 16 15 27 28 19 34 24 total # scans: 290 311 421 306 500 489 386 # scans/hour : 12 13 18 13 21 20 16 Avg scan (sec): 126 81 91 160 91 75 103 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1417 1014 1526 1870 1819 1497 1524 Total GB(M5): 1259 902 1356 1662 1617 1331 1354 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8126.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Kk Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ft| 150 33 110 121 114 528 Hh| 0 76 63 188 477 Kk| 163 303 176 675 Tc| 137 46 532 Wf| 280 904 Wz| 804 Number of 2-station scans: 564 Number of 3-station scans: 280 Number of 4-station scans: 71 Number of 5-station scans: 13 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 928 1960 =========================================================== 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 2229+695 1.00 1.50 1.07 21 9 Total 1.07 21 9 =========================================================== 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