Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1304 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 R1304 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-330-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-331-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007330 (2007.90) ( 14431 MJD, MON. 26NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21:20: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 8.2m -20d 57.4 =========================================================== 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 Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1611+343 07330-170000| 58 88 101 101 87| 1357+769 07330-170248| 40 40 40 40| 1144-379 07330-170320| 110 174 174 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1611+343 07331-165805| 57 88 101 101 87| 0454-234 07331-165824| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1304.skd for experiment R1304 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 14.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 87.3 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0104-408) RMS = 18.3 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 33 40 25 56 35 48 41 40 % cal. time: 5 6 4 5 7 6 6 6 % slew time: 50 27 20 16 25 22 15 26 % idle time: 12 25 50 21 31 22 37 29 total # scans: 392 524 360 451 624 544 512 486 # scans/hour : 16 22 15 19 26 23 21 20 Avg scan (sec): 72 67 59 108 49 77 69 70 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1161 1444 899 1913 1314 1701 1452 1412 Total GB(M5): 1032 1283 799 1701 1168 1512 1291 1255 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8785.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 180 21 187 224 30 21 663 Kk| 203 188 363 305 214 1453 Ny| 62 279 267 311 1143 Tc| 42 249 124 852 Ts| 272 345 1525 Wf| 368 1491 Wz| 1383 Number of 2-station scans: 334 Number of 3-station scans: 405 Number of 4-station scans: 171 Number of 5-station scans: 168 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1078 4255 =========================================================== 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 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 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF FF =========================================================== 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 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 Tc Ts Wf Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15