Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1314 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 R1314 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-035-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-036-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008035 (2008.10) ( 14501 MJD, MON. 4FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 1:56: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 10.8m -16d 15.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Badary and Zelenchuckskaya were 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 Bd Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0059+581 08035-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40| 0637-752 08035-170000| 86 86 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1741-038 08036-165410| 173 173 | 0955+476 08036-165539| 40 40 40 40 | 0552+398 08036-165716| 40 40 40 40 40| 0749+540 08036-165840| 53 40 72 72 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1314.skd for experiment R1314 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 130.9 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0552+398) RMS = 14.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Bd=BADARY Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Bd Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 15 29 40 35 32 38 37 17 30 % cal. time: 2 3 6 3 4 5 5 3 4 % slew time: 34 52 29 9 19 20 17 38 28 % idle time: 48 15 24 52 44 36 40 42 38 total # scans: 214 260 484 229 380 408 457 239 333 # scans/hour : 9 11 20 10 16 17 19 10 14 Avg scan (sec): 59 95 71 133 72 81 69 60 79 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 533 986 1417 1177 1119 1334 1308 600 1059 Total GB(M5): 473 876 1259 1046 995 1186 1162 534 942 # 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: 7532.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 50 179 0 170 96 129 96 720 Hh| 77 107 51 61 135 87 568 Ny| 26 286 252 330 183 1333 Tc| 37 122 54 17 363 Ts| 163 186 117 1010 Wf| 258 103 1055 Wz| 186 1278 Zc| 789 Number of 2-station scans: 300 Number of 3-station scans: 229 Number of 4-station scans: 166 Number of 5-station scans: 90 Number of 6-station scans: 45 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 830 3558 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: BADARY HARTRAO NYALES20 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 Recording mode setup for: 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1932+204 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2021+614 1.00 1.50 1.80 64 9 1459+480 1.00 1.50 1.57 56 18 2254+074 1.00 1.50 1.10 39 17 0839+187 1.00 1.50 0.08 3 1 1130+009 1.00 1.50 1.10 39 10 0917+624 1.00 1.50 2.50 89 9 0202+319 1.00 1.50 1.97 70 14 1614+051 1.00 1.50 1.01 36 6 0502+049 1.00 1.50 0.82 29 8 Total 11.94 425 92 =========================================================== 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 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 Bd BADARY Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 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) Bd Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Bd Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Hh 20 Hh 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 Zc 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 12 15 15 15