Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1308 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 R1308 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-360-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-361-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007360 (2007.99) ( 14461 MJD, WED. 26DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23:19: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 18h 19.8m -23d 21.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchuckskaya 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 Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1611+343 07360-170000| 200 52 200 97 103 | 0749+540 07360-170230| 40 40 70 70 57| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1749+096 07361-165350| 115 40 115 48 | 1803+784 07361-165552| 46 40 40 46 40| 0642+449 07361-165734| 40 40 40 | 0656+082 07361-165909| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1308.skd for experiment R1308 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 144.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 0048-097) RMS = 11.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Kk=KOKEE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ft Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 42 39 45 29 46 36 13 36 % cal. time: 3 5 3 5 5 4 2 4 % slew time: 38 21 9 18 18 12 28 21 % idle time: 17 34 42 48 30 47 56 39 total # scans: 248 402 248 431 416 378 186 329 # scans/hour : 10 17 10 18 17 16 8 14 Avg scan (sec): 145 85 156 58 96 82 61 96 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1386 1369 1480 1050 1586 1249 474 1227 Total GB(M5): 1232 1217 1315 933 1409 1110 421 1091 # 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: 7637.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 69 166 28 163 123 59 608 Kk| 120 287 241 161 86 964 Tc| 23 127 62 23 521 Ts| 235 258 136 967 Wf| 256 125 1147 Wz| 174 1034 Zc| 603 Number of 2-station scans: 253 Number of 3-station scans: 214 Number of 4-station scans: 167 Number of 5-station scans: 83 Number of 6-station scans: 13 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 730 2922 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL ZELENCHK 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 are 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 FFTFF 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 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Ft Kk Tc Ts Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Tc 15 15 Tc 12 12 Ts 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 12 15 15 Zc 20 20 15 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 12 15 15 15