Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1300 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 R1300 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-302-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-303-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007302 (2007.83) ( 14403 MJD, MON. 29OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:30: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 14.3m -13d 29.0 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was 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 Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0607-157 07302-170000| 40 40 40 | 1749+096 07302-170000| 122 145 145 63 145| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1451-375 07303-165455| 200 200 | 0552+398 07303-165506| 40 40 40 40| 0743+259 07303-165625| 86 86 40 | 3C446 07303-165742| 40 40| OJ287 07303-165913| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1300.skd for experiment R1300 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 110.8 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 17.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 41 28 37 24 57 34 42 39 38 % cal. time: 3 4 5 4 4 7 5 6 5 % slew time: 41 44 25 20 13 25 20 15 26 % idle time: 14 23 32 51 24 33 32 40 32 total # scans: 284 342 462 346 375 600 466 490 420 # scans/hour : 12 14 19 14 16 25 19 20 18 Avg scan (sec): 124 71 70 60 131 49 77 68 80 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1367 993 1327 878 1907 1277 1459 1375 1323 Total GB(M5): 1216 883 1179 780 1695 1135 1297 1222 1176 # 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: 9407.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 15 80 82 218 24 210 151 780 Ho| 184 28 131 221 22 30 631 Kk| 161 167 324 234 165 1315 Ny| 50 264 222 287 1094 Tc| 37 215 96 914 Ts| 228 332 1430 Wf| 302 1433 Wz| 1363 Number of 2-station scans: 247 Number of 3-station scans: 352 Number of 4-station scans: 251 Number of 5-station scans: 144 Number of 6-station scans: 14 Number of 7-station scans: 1 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1009 4480 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 Recording mode setup for: KOKEE 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 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 =========================================================== No Monitoring Sources 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE 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 Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 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