Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1298 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 R1298 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-289-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-290-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007289 (2007.79) ( 14390 MJD, TUES 16OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18:39: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 24.9m -8d 55.3 =========================================================== 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 Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz 0458-020 07289-170000| 40 40 40 | 1741-038 07289-170000| 97 66 200 160 200| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz 0131-522 07290-165507| 95 95 | 1417+385 07290-165618| 200 200 154 189| 1803+784 07290-165653| 67 67 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1298.skd for experiment R1298 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 14.8 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 39 28 33 43 55 35 45 39 40 % cal. time: 3 3 4 5 4 5 5 5 4 % slew time: 36 56 45 23 12 21 19 15 29 % idle time: 21 12 17 29 28 37 30 39 27 total # scans: 252 284 324 408 335 473 419 437 366 # scans/hour : 11 12 14 17 14 20 17 18 15 Avg scan (sec): 134 85 87 90 143 64 93 78 96 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1306 976 1128 1473 1842 1261 1551 1381 1365 Total GB(M5): 1161 868 1003 1309 1637 1121 1378 1228 1213 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9705.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 112 3 43 143 12 127 108 548 Hh| 82 0 72 51 65 120 502 Ho| 143 110 153 27 21 539 Kk| 151 233 221 130 921 Tc| 36 169 62 743 Ts| 159 240 884 Wf| 239 1007 Wz| 920 Number of 2-station scans: 494 Number of 3-station scans: 312 Number of 4-station scans: 207 Number of 5-station scans: 36 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1049 3032 =========================================================== 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 0.01 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 0.01 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 0.01 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 0131-522 1.00 1.50 0.89 27 27 1758-651 1.00 1.50 0.76 23 23 1656+477 1.00 1.50 1.25 38 17 0400+258 1.00 1.50 1.52 46 12 1049+215 1.00 1.50 1.02 31 14 0722+145 1.00 1.50 1.15 35 16 0716+714 1.00 1.50 1.52 46 15 1413+135 1.00 1.50 0.69 21 13 NGC0262 1.00 1.50 1.12 34 13 1929+226 1.00 1.50 0.92 28 28 Total 10.85 329 178 =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE 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 Kk Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ho Kk Tc Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 Kk 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