Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1305 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 R1305 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-337-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-338-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007337 (2007.92) ( 14438 MJD, MON. 3DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21:48: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 38.3m -22d 6.7 =========================================================== 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 0454-234 07337-170000| 40 40 40 | 1749+096 07337-170000| 111 110 116 49 116| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1611+343 07338-165336| 200 84 200 97 85| 0727-115 07338-165455| 40 40 | 0235+164 07338-165638| 40 40 40| 0133+476 07338-165801| 40 40 40 40| 0637-752 07338-165807| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1305.skd for experiment R1305 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 62.4 (Baseline Ny-Tc on 1749+096) RMS = 15.4 Total time: 1439 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 26 28 20 57 32 37 36 35 % cal. time: 3 3 4 4 4 7 5 5 4 % slew time: 41 55 46 17 12 23 18 13 29 % idle time: 12 15 20 59 27 37 39 45 32 total # scans: 289 283 388 303 335 583 407 430 377 # scans/hour : 12 12 16 13 14 24 17 18 16 Avg scan (sec): 129 80 63 56 146 48 78 72 83 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1445 917 1022 721 1879 1219 1290 1266 1220 Total GB(M5): 1284 816 909 641 1670 1084 1147 1126 1084 # 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: 8675.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 158 23 67 223 14 187 151 823 Hh| 88 42 125 72 81 141 707 Ho| 25 114 266 24 18 558 Ny| 44 235 200 234 847 Tc| 35 186 115 842 Ts| 198 255 1075 Wf| 253 1129 Wz| 1167 Number of 2-station scans: 362 Number of 3-station scans: 345 Number of 4-station scans: 187 Number of 5-station scans: 89 Number of 6-station scans: 11 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 994 3574 =========================================================== 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