Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1292 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 R1292 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-247-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-248-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007247 (2007.68) ( 14348 MJD, TUES 4SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15:53:44.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 52.8m 7d 8.5 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 Ho Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 0454-234 07247-170000| 41 40 41 40 | 1611+343 07247-170000| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 2318+049 07248-165414| 40 40 | 1803+784 07248-165458| 40 40 | 1144-379 07248-165558| 92 92 | 1044+719 07248-165632| 128 40 200 200 148| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1292.skd for experiment R1292 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 13.5 Min = .0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Ny-On on 1741-038) RMS = 15.6 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 34 39 28 43 57 35 46 36 40 % cal. time: 5 6 6 7 5 8 6 7 6 % slew time: 48 27 25 37 14 28 23 17 28 % idle time: 13 26 40 13 24 28 23 39 26 total # scans: 399 529 489 610 404 657 550 589 528 # scans/hour : 17 22 20 25 17 27 23 25 22 Avg scan (sec): 74 64 49 60 122 46 72 53 67 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1200 1416 1041 1541 1917 1336 1633 1332 1427 Total GB(M5): 1066 1258 926 1370 1704 1187 1451 1184 1268 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10147.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ho| 145 22 16 181 221 16 19 620 Kk| 216 211 156 352 297 194 1571 Ny| 449 22 328 283 406 1726 On| 49 350 329 538 1942 Tc| 26 201 62 697 Ts| 241 323 1841 Wf| 309 1676 Wz| 1851 Number of 2-station scans: 471 Number of 3-station scans: 335 Number of 4-station scans: 226 Number of 5-station scans: 124 Number of 6-station scans: 126 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1282 5962 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX 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 Recording mode setup for: KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 None were observed during this session. =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 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) Ho Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Ho Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 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