Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1306 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 R1306 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-344-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-345-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007344 (2007.94) ( 14445 MJD, MON. 10DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 22:16: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 8.9m -22d 55.1 =========================================================== 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 Ts Wf Wz 1803+784 07344-170000| 128 128 40 40 40 45| CTA26 07344-170149| 49 40 49| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz 1034-293 07345-164859| 61 61 40 | 1611+343 07345-165133| 50 40 44 50 46| 1128+385 07345-165313| 40 40 40 40 | 1749+096 07345-165458| 40 40 40| 1357+769 07345-165656| 40 40 40 40 40| 1308+326 07345-165827| 67 67 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1306.skd for experiment R1306 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 54.7 (Baseline Ho-Wz on CTA26 ) RMS = 11.5 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 29 19 40 29 34 47 39 34 % cal. time: 3 3 6 4 7 6 5 5 % slew time: 34 36 26 19 26 22 15 26 % idle time: 34 40 28 47 32 24 39 35 total # scans: 247 278 480 337 570 481 433 403 # scans/hour : 10 12 20 14 24 20 18 17 Avg scan (sec): 100 60 71 73 52 85 79 74 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 976 702 1407 1008 1275 1647 1384 1200 Total GB(M5): 867 624 1251 896 1133 1464 1230 1067 # 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: 7465.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 10 62 96 34 212 164 578 Ho| 195 27 238 20 30 520 Kk| 199 398 255 186 1295 Ny| 244 275 259 1100 Ts| 263 266 1443 Wf| 315 1340 Wz| 1220 Number of 2-station scans: 196 Number of 3-station scans: 312 Number of 4-station scans: 211 Number of 5-station scans: 114 Number of 6-station scans: 14 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 847 3748 =========================================================== 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 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 FFFFF 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 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 Ts Wf Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15