Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1309 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2008.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1309 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-002-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-003-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008002 (2008.01) ( 14468 MJD, WED. 2JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23:46: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 18h 50.7m -22d 55.5 =========================================================== Important Station Information Seshan is scheduled with 14 BBCs. Ny Alesund is scheduled as a regular station. Therefore, Ny Alesund was NOT tagged along. =========================================================== 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 Ny Sh Tc Wf Wz 1611+343 08002-170000| 200 52 85 200 97 119| 0955+476 08002-170238| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Kk Ny Sh Tc Wf Wz 1749+096 08003-165246| 116 40 85 116 48 | 1803+784 08003-165509| 42 40 40 40 42| 2201+315 08003-165702| 40 40| 1351-018 08003-165729| 62 62 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1309.skd for experiment R1309 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Ft-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 14.8 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Kk Ny Sh Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 35 43 44 33 45 49 41 41 % cal. time: 3 5 5 4 3 5 5 4 % slew time: 37 23 27 33 9 19 15 24 % idle time: 24 29 23 29 42 27 38 31 total # scans: 233 391 474 372 255 409 442 368 # scans/hour : 10 16 20 16 11 17 18 15 Avg scan (sec): 131 95 80 76 153 102 80 102 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1185 1475 1533 1156 1499 1655 1434 1420 Total GB(M5): 1054 1312 1363 1028 1332 1471 1275 1262 # 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: 8833.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Kk Ny Sh Tc Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 58 91 14 144 156 124 587 Kk| 212 198 140 206 140 954 Ny| 290 47 288 361 1289 Sh| 3 145 235 885 Tc| 132 66 532 Wf| 264 1191 Wz| 1190 Number of 2-station scans: 289 Number of 3-station scans: 229 Number of 4-station scans: 163 Number of 5-station scans: 115 Number of 6-station scans: 14 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 810 3314 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA SESHAN25 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0831+557 1.00 1.50 1.96 65 9 0605-085 1.00 1.50 0.42 14 14 1244-255 1.00 1.50 0.21 7 7 1038+064 1.00 1.50 0.84 28 13 0919-260 1.00 1.50 0.39 13 9 0219+428 1.00 1.50 1.60 53 10 1532+016 1.00 1.50 0.94 31 15 1637+574 1.00 1.50 1.99 66 9 2216-038 1.00 1.50 1.15 38 17 2229+695 1.00 1.50 1.63 54 7 Total 11.13 369 110 =========================================================== 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 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC 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 Kk Ny Sh Tc Wf Ft Kk Ny Sh Tc Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15