Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1319 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 R1319 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2008-071-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-072-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008071 (2008.19) ( 14537 MJD, TUES 11MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:18: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 28.8m -3d 22.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya 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 Sv Ts Wf Wz Zc 1357+769 08071-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40 40| 1741-038 08071-170244| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Sv Ts Wf Wz Zc 0859-140 08072-165540| 188 188 188| 3C446 08072-165614| 40 40 | 0749+540 08072-165648| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1319.skd for experiment R1319 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Kk-Wf on 0405-385) RMS = 13.7 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Sv=SVETLOE Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Ma Sv Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 25 37 33 24 33 30 30 17 29 % cal. time: 4 7 6 5 6 5 6 3 5 % slew time: 43 31 36 55 24 20 15 43 34 % idle time: 27 25 24 15 35 43 48 36 32 total # scans: 350 564 514 425 557 447 527 299 460 # scans/hour : 15 24 21 18 23 19 22 12 19 Avg scan (sec): 61 57 56 49 51 59 49 48 52 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 894 1356 1220 901 1218 1108 1127 623 1056 Total GB(M5): 795 1205 1085 801 1082 985 1002 554 939 # 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: 7508.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Sv Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ho| 240 21 20 278 9 14 20 602 Kk| 93 119 361 258 117 79 1267 Ma| 387 173 258 490 281 1703 Sv| 188 219 390 270 1593 Ts| 153 191 134 1478 Wf| 286 149 1332 Wz| 280 1768 Zc| 1213 Number of 2-station scans: 388 Number of 3-station scans: 317 Number of 4-station scans: 153 Number of 5-station scans: 134 Number of 6-station scans: 47 Number of 7-station scans: 56 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1095 5478 =========================================================== 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 SVETLOE 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 0611+131 1.00 1.50 0.69 38 20 2326-477 1.00 1.50 0.29 16 14 0954+658 1.00 1.50 1.86 102 8 0859-140 1.00 1.50 0.78 43 26 1929+226 1.00 1.50 0.86 47 15 1354-152 1.00 1.50 1.10 60 23 1147+245 1.00 1.50 1.10 60 10 1600+335 1.00 1.50 0.89 49 10 0123+257 1.00 1.50 1.26 69 15 2128-123 1.00 1.50 1.61 88 31 Total 10.44 572 172 =========================================================== 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 Sv SVETLOE 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 Sv Ts Wf Wz Ho Kk Ma Sv Ts Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Sv 20 20 20 Sv 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