Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1320 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 R1320 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2008-077-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-078-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008077 (2008.21) ( 14543 MJD, MON. 17MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:42: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 50.7m -1d 0.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 0954+658 08077-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40 40| 1611+343 08077-170149| 40 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 0642+449 08078-165648| 40 40 40 40 40 | 1954-388 08078-165842| 40 40 | 0823+033 08078-165847| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1320.skd for experiment R1320 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 13.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 135.0 (Baseline Ma-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 14.7 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: 20 34 36 32 35 32 33 15 30 % cal. time: 4 6 7 7 7 6 7 3 6 % slew time: 41 30 41 30 29 24 16 45 33 % idle time: 34 28 15 30 28 37 43 35 32 total # scans: 326 545 595 567 626 520 590 294 507 # scans/hour : 14 23 25 24 26 22 25 12 21 Avg scan (sec): 53 54 52 49 49 54 48 43 50 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 740 1262 1331 1210 1328 1194 1241 566 1109 Total GB(M5): 658 1122 1183 1076 1180 1061 1103 503 986 # 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: 7886.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ho| 196 27 28 261 19 16 15 562 Kk| 120 210 368 273 153 71 1391 Ma| 449 239 321 550 285 1991 Ny| 314 355 458 229 2043 Ts| 205 251 137 1775 Wf| 330 143 1646 Wz| 267 2025 Zc| 1147 Number of 2-station scans: 348 Number of 3-station scans: 318 Number of 4-station scans: 198 Number of 5-station scans: 164 Number of 6-station scans: 81 Number of 7-station scans: 45 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1154 6290 =========================================================== 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 OP326 1.00 1.50 0.27 17 17 0420+417 1.00 1.50 1.43 90 15 0405-123 1.00 1.50 0.91 57 30 1055+018 1.00 1.50 1.29 81 25 0010+405 1.00 1.50 0.81 51 10 0954+658 1.00 1.50 2.15 135 8 0735+178 1.00 1.50 1.10 69 12 1532+016 1.00 1.50 0.81 51 20 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.88 118 8 2128-123 1.00 1.50 0.87 55 30 Total 11.51 724 175 =========================================================== 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