Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1303 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 R1303 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-323-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-324-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007323 (2007.88) ( 14424 MJD, MON. 19NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20:53: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 38.7m -19d 28.9 =========================================================== Important Station Information 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 1749+096 07323-170000| 133 56 151 151 62 151| 1128+385 07323-170214| 40 40 | 0637-752 07323-170339| 63 63 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1606+106 07324-165518| 138 138 85| 1057-797 07324-165528| 200 200 | 0235+164 07324-165754| 40 40 40 | 0133+476 07324-165919| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1303.skd for experiment R1303 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Hh-Tc on 1611+343) RMS = 15.7 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: 43 24 28 22 55 33 39 35 35 % cal. time: 3 3 5 4 4 7 5 5 5 % slew time: 41 55 49 19 12 23 19 14 30 % idle time: 12 17 17 54 28 36 35 45 31 total # scans: 289 276 392 331 339 602 463 454 393 # scans/hour : 12 12 16 14 14 25 19 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 128 77 62 57 141 48 73 66 80 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1439 860 1020 797 1842 1248 1378 1246 1229 Total GB(M5): 1280 765 906 709 1637 1109 1225 1108 1092 # 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: 8738.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 140 23 68 222 13 200 133 799 Hh| 91 49 123 66 78 126 673 Ho| 32 119 255 19 23 562 Ny| 47 259 225 262 942 Tc| 30 181 99 821 Ts| 237 292 1152 Wf| 299 1239 Wz| 1234 Number of 2-station scans: 386 Number of 3-station scans: 355 Number of 4-station scans: 200 Number of 5-station scans: 85 Number of 6-station scans: 14 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1040 3711 =========================================================== 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: 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 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 =========================================================== There were no Monitoring Sources scheduled 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 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