Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1318 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 R1318 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-063-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-064-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008063 (2008.17) ( 14529 MJD, MON. 3MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 3:47: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 59.2m -6d 29.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchuckskaya was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 1357+769 08063-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40 40| 1749+096 08063-170223| 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 2145+067 08064-165138| 40 40 | 1034-293 08064-165157| 40 40 | 1354-152 08064-165433| 45 45 40 | 1351-018 08064-165554| 40 40 | 0454-234 08064-165625| 40 40 40| 1424-418 08064-165720| 40 40 40 | OJ287 08064-165906| 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1318.skd for experiment R1318 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.6 Min = 0.0 Max = 135.0 (Baseline Ny-Wz on 1741-038) RMS = 13.8 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 27 36 41 34 43 32 37 15 33 % cal. time: 4 6 7 6 7 6 6 3 6 % slew time: 39 28 40 28 25 23 15 40 30 % idle time: 30 30 12 30 25 37 40 41 31 total # scans: 307 501 563 560 565 497 557 264 476 # scans/hour : 13 21 23 23 24 21 23 11 20 Avg scan (sec): 75 61 63 53 65 56 57 49 59 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 943 1287 1486 1271 1527 1186 1353 562 1202 Total GB(M5): 838 1144 1321 1129 1358 1054 1203 499 1068 # 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: 8546.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ho| 170 19 27 254 14 16 17 517 Kk| 82 186 312 241 106 57 1154 Ma| 407 175 283 518 237 1721 Ny| 240 357 413 201 1831 Ts| 149 169 103 1402 Wf| 292 126 1462 Wz| 224 1738 Zc| 965 Number of 2-station scans: 403 Number of 3-station scans: 321 Number of 4-station scans: 197 Number of 5-station scans: 156 Number of 6-station scans: 48 Number of 7-station scans: 27 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1152 5395 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 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: KOKEE MATERA NYALES20 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 3C138 1.00 1.50 0.65 35 29 1514+197 1.00 1.50 1.08 58 7 1030+074 1.00 1.50 0.41 22 22 0733-174 1.00 1.50 0.74 40 26 2143-156 1.00 1.50 0.82 44 24 0148+274 1.00 1.50 1.00 54 11 0954+658 1.00 1.50 2.13 115 7 1758+388 1.00 1.50 1.08 58 10 2017+743 1.00 1.50 0.65 35 23 1354-152 1.00 1.50 1.04 56 27 Total 9.58 517 186 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 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) Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15 15 15