Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1291 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 R1291 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-239-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-240-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007239 (2007.65) ( 14340 MJD, MON. 27AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15:22:12.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 23.8m 10d 1.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were 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 Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0727-115 07239-170000| 40 40 40 | 2209+236 07239-170000| 57 57 40 57 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 2121+053 07240-165259| 40 74 74 52 40| 0808+019 07240-165453| 137 137 | 3C418 07240-165521| 40 40 | 1519-273 07240-165523| 200 200 | 0528+134 07240-165756| 40 40 40 | 3C274 07240-165919| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1291.skd for experiment R1291 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.9 Min = .0 Max = 115.2 (Baseline On-Ts on 2243-123) RMS = 16.0 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 48 31 44 48 37 48 39 14 39 % cal. time: 7 6 7 4 8 6 7 3 6 % slew time: 26 25 34 10 26 22 17 43 26 % idle time: 18 37 13 37 29 23 35 39 29 total # scans: 594 521 647 318 656 535 643 283 524 # scans/hour : 25 22 27 13 27 22 27 12 22 Avg scan (sec): 70 51 59 130 49 77 52 43 66 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1713 1142 1615 1606 1392 1673 1444 544 1391 Total GB(M5): 1522 1015 1436 1427 1237 1487 1284 484 1237 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9892.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Kk| 155 141 202 395 233 121 60 1307 Ny| 476 29 320 269 438 196 1883 On| 35 335 301 584 265 2137 Tc| 30 193 50 12 551 Ts| 214 312 154 1760 Wf| 286 114 1610 Wz| 264 2055 Zc| 1065 Number of 2-station scans: 481 Number of 3-station scans: 262 Number of 4-station scans: 229 Number of 5-station scans: 162 Number of 6-station scans: 82 Number of 7-station scans: 33 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1249 6184 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL ZELENCHK 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: 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 =========================================================== 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 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 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ny 20 Ny 15 On 20 20 On 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 12 15 15 15