Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1316 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 R1316 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-050-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-051-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008050 (2008.14) ( 14516 MJD, TUES 19FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 2:56: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 10.0m -11d 19.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 0552+398 08050-170000| 40 40 40 40| 1921-293 08050-170000| 70 70 | 1044+719 08050-170122| 40 40| 1357+769 08050-170238| 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0537-441 08051-165419| 40 62 62 | 2007+777 08051-165423| 95 95 95| 0859+470 08051-165640| 40 40| 0637-752 08051-165747| 77 77 | OK290 08051-165810| 61 61 61| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1316.skd for experiment R1316 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 125.2 (Baseline Ft-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 11.5 Total time: 1439 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: 38 29 27 34 32 44 41 35 % cal. time: 3 3 4 4 2 5 6 4 % slew time: 37 51 19 22 7 21 17 25 % idle time: 22 16 50 40 58 30 36 36 total # scans: 262 264 306 308 178 397 477 313 # scans/hour : 11 11 13 13 7 17 20 13 Avg scan (sec): 124 94 76 94 156 95 74 101 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1260 992 947 1156 1061 1503 1435 1193 Total GB(M5): 1120 882 842 1028 943 1336 1276 1061 # 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: 7425.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 137 37 60 142 131 75 582 Hh| 67 81 72 59 164 580 Ny| 216 14 211 281 826 On| 26 179 278 840 Tc| 85 27 366 Wf| 275 940 Wz| 1100 Number of 2-station scans: 255 Number of 3-station scans: 288 Number of 4-station scans: 119 Number of 5-station scans: 34 Number of 6-station scans: 24 Number of 7-station scans: 4 Total # of scans, observations: 724 2617 =========================================================== 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 1.15 30 10 2007+777 1.00 1.50 1.76 46 16 2253+417 1.00 1.50 1.95 51 16 0859+470 1.00 1.50 1.68 44 21 0722+145 1.00 1.50 1.38 36 8 3C395 1.00 1.50 2.29 60 14 1237-101 1.00 1.50 0.61 16 7 1226+373 1.00 1.50 1.11 29 10 0234+285 1.00 1.50 2.29 60 11 0457+024 1.00 1.50 1.22 32 9 Total 15.44 404 122 =========================================================== 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