Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1321 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 R1321 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-085-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-086-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008085 (2008.23) ( 14551 MJD, TUES 25MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 5:14: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 0h 19.9m 2d 9.1 =========================================================== 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 0235+164 08085-170000| 200 140 200 183 200 137 135| 1803+784 08085-170503| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0208-512 08086-164518| 141 141 | 1055+018 08086-164705| 58 42 40 58| 2234+282 08086-164912| 40 40 40| 1124-186 08086-165000| 40 40 | 0035+413 08086-165030| 200 200 200| 0104-408 08086-165048| 103 103 | 1611+343 08086-165512| 40 40 | 0552+398 08086-165800| 49 61 40 40 61 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1321.skd for experiment R1321 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0733-174) RMS = 14.1 Total time: 1439 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: 38 21 36 37 41 29 33 32 33 % cal. time: 3 3 5 6 3 5 4 5 4 % slew time: 40 50 39 30 10 21 20 16 29 % idle time: 18 25 19 27 46 45 42 46 34 total # scans: 277 232 441 503 250 407 385 446 367 # scans/hour : 12 10 18 21 10 17 16 19 15 Avg scan (sec): 117 79 70 63 141 61 74 62 82 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1267 743 1269 1318 1358 1043 1166 1154 1165 Total GB(M5): 1126 660 1128 1171 1208 927 1037 1026 1035 # 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: 8282.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 115 89 69 181 8 145 87 694 Hh| 128 61 75 64 51 111 605 Ma| 312 55 202 200 403 1389 Ny| 38 321 257 335 1393 Tc| 39 116 54 558 Ts| 135 212 981 Wf| 209 1113 Wz| 1411 Number of 2-station scans: 342 Number of 3-station scans: 228 Number of 4-station scans: 153 Number of 5-station scans: 121 Number of 6-station scans: 50 Number of 7-station scans: 8 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 902 4072 =========================================================== 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 1055+018 1.00 1.50 1.03 42 9 0405-123 1.00 1.50 0.69 28 11 1216+487 1.00 1.50 0.96 39 14 0733-174 1.00 1.50 0.44 18 16 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.79 73 9 1532+016 1.00 1.50 0.88 36 8 0035+413 1.00 1.50 0.93 38 13 0707+476 1.00 1.50 1.65 67 11 0454+844 1.00 1.50 0.54 22 22 2128-123 1.00 1.50 0.86 35 23 Total 9.77 398 136 =========================================================== 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