Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1315 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 R1315 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-042-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-043-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008042 (2008.12) ( 14508 MJD, MON. 11FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 2:24: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 38.8m -14d 3.9 =========================================================== 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 Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0234+285 08042-170000| 124 92 53 124 97 46| 1749+096 08042-170258| 57 57 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0208-512 08043-165052| 149 162 162 | 0823+033 08043-165248| 50 50 41| 0749+540 08043-165448| 81 133 133 71| 0104-408 08043-165516| 88 88 | 0457+024 08043-165704| 42 42| 2255-282 08043-165907| 46 49 49 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1315.skd for experiment R1315 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.2 Min = 0.0 Max = 105.7 (Baseline Ny-On on 1351-018) RMS = 13.6 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 41 26 38 45 40 40 34 38 % cal. time: 3 3 6 6 3 5 6 4 % slew time: 38 46 29 33 8 20 17 28 % idle time: 17 24 26 15 48 35 43 30 total # scans: 289 244 508 501 225 396 485 378 # scans/hour : 12 10 21 21 9 17 20 16 Avg scan (sec): 122 92 65 77 154 86 60 93 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1370 896 1370 1575 1326 1373 1229 1305 Total GB(M5): 1218 796 1218 1400 1178 1220 1092 1160 # 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: 8122.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 144 36 64 179 129 63 615 Hh| 68 106 92 60 122 592 Ny| 431 19 256 406 1216 On| 39 221 440 1301 Tc| 106 37 472 Wf| 204 976 Wz| 1272 Number of 2-station scans: 270 Number of 3-station scans: 331 Number of 4-station scans: 189 Number of 5-station scans: 36 Number of 6-station scans: 24 Number of 7-station scans: 5 Total # of scans, observations: 855 3222 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 ONSALA60 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 1514+197 1.00 1.50 0.90 29 8 2007+777 1.00 1.50 0.96 31 6 2253+417 1.00 1.50 0.90 29 9 1237-101 1.00 1.50 0.90 29 8 3C395 1.00 1.50 1.74 56 20 1226+373 1.00 1.50 0.81 26 12 0859+470 1.00 1.50 1.64 53 16 0722+145 1.00 1.50 1.02 33 7 0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.77 57 13 0457+024 1.00 1.50 1.06 34 10 Total 11.70 377 109 =========================================================== 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 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 Hh Ny On Tc Wf Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 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