Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1296 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 R1296 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-274-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-275-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007274 (2007.75) ( 14375 MJD, MON. 1OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 17:40:11.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 29.9m -3d 13.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 07274-170000| 40 40 40 | 1611+343 07274-170000| 108 99 92 108 86| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1417+385 07275-165454| 200 200 200 189| OJ287 07275-165614| 80 80 | 2106-413 07275-165811| 99 99 | 0059+581 07275-165912| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1296.skd for experiment R1296 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.9 Min = .0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1958-179) RMS = 12.5 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 40 30 34 24 47 38 50 39 38 % cal. time: 3 4 4 3 3 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 38 56 50 18 10 26 21 17 30 % idle time: 18 10 10 54 38 29 23 38 28 total # scans: 261 311 388 294 286 541 469 464 376 # scans/hour : 11 13 16 12 12 23 20 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 132 83 76 70 143 61 92 72 90 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1334 1044 1208 849 1575 1385 1723 1373 1311 Total GB(M5): 1185 928 1074 754 1400 1231 1532 1221 1166 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9324.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 82 5 37 88 1 122 82 417 Hh| 79 47 45 56 35 150 494 Ho| 16 134 205 24 16 479 Ny| 8 182 189 226 705 Tc| 38 73 16 402 Ts| 210 212 904 Wf| 212 865 Wz| 914 Number of 2-station scans: 715 Number of 3-station scans: 349 Number of 4-station scans: 123 Number of 5-station scans: 9 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1196 2590 =========================================================== 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 NYALES20 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 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 2106-413 1.00 1.50 .77 20 20 0516-621 1.00 1.50 .50 13 13 1313-333 1.00 1.50 .58 15 15 1354+195 1.00 1.50 .81 21 15 1705+018 1.00 1.50 1.20 31 15 1637+574 1.00 1.50 1.97 51 11 0149+218 1.00 1.50 1.00 26 15 0636+680 1.00 1.50 1.12 29 19 1012+232 1.00 1.50 1.24 32 15 0600+177 1.00 1.50 .66 17 15 Total 9.85 255 153 =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 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) Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 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