Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1317 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 R1317 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-056-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-057-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008056 (2008.15) ( 14522 MJD, MON. 25FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 3:19: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 32.9m -9d 8.4 =========================================================== 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 Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0552+398 08056-170000| 200 40 40 40 200 40 40| 0823+033 08056-170145| 40 40 40| CTA26 08056-170401| 40 40 40 40| 1749+096 08056-170437| 58 40 58 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1958-179 08057-165230| 200 200 86 | 0804+499 08057-165347| 40 40 40 40| 0722+145 08057-165539| 99 99 95 40 89| 2052-474 08057-165657| 130 130 | 0014+813 08057-165915| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1317.skd for experiment R1317 (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 Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 14.2 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 39 23 35 35 43 28 37 31 34 % cal. time: 3 3 6 6 3 5 5 6 5 % slew time: 35 51 39 30 9 21 19 15 28 % idle time: 22 22 19 27 43 44 38 47 33 total # scans: 279 265 494 525 260 456 416 487 397 # scans/hour : 12 11 21 22 11 19 17 20 17 Avg scan (sec): 120 76 62 58 144 53 78 55 80 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1304 819 1274 1282 1443 1040 1313 1143 1202 Total GB(M5): 1159 728 1133 1140 1282 925 1167 1016 1069 # 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: 8550.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 135 73 41 183 2 133 68 635 Hh| 145 63 85 67 57 128 680 Ma| 366 41 237 199 453 1514 Ny| 20 338 258 377 1463 Tc| 48 115 39 531 Ts| 172 242 1106 Wf| 202 1136 Wz| 1509 Number of 2-station scans: 328 Number of 3-station scans: 265 Number of 4-station scans: 217 Number of 5-station scans: 128 Number of 6-station scans: 29 Number of 7-station scans: 7 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 974 4287 =========================================================== 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: HARTRAO MATERA 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 0945+408 1.00 1.50 1.61 69 19 1045-188 1.00 1.50 0.54 23 12 2253+417 1.00 1.50 0.98 42 11 0722+145 1.00 1.50 1.59 68 18 0609+607 1.00 1.50 1.00 43 9 1600+335 1.00 1.50 1.21 52 17 3C395 1.00 1.50 1.66 71 18 3C309.1 1.00 1.50 1.21 52 7 1406-076 1.00 1.50 0.63 27 10 0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.52 65 14 Total 11.94 512 135 =========================================================== 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 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 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 Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 15