Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1323 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 R1323 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-098-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-099-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008098 (2008.27) ( 14564 MJD, MON. 7APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6: 5: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 7.3m 7d 9.2 =========================================================== 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 Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc 1739+522 08098-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40 40| 1751+288 08098-170129| 40 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc 1936-155 08099-164653| 141 141 67 | CTA26 08099-164806| 40 40 | 1739+522 08099-165102| 40 40 40 40 40 40 40| 0159+723 08099-165303| 200 200 200 101 200 200 | 2201+315 08099-165713| 50 50 | OJ287 08099-165916| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1323.skd for experiment R1323 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 80.0 (Baseline Ho-Wz on 1313-333) RMS = 13.4 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 19 34 37 30 30 33 35 14 29 % cal. time: 3 6 6 6 6 5 6 3 5 % slew time: 36 27 30 44 24 23 18 38 31 % idle time: 40 32 25 20 39 37 40 44 35 total # scans: 290 479 551 505 552 474 519 240 451 # scans/hour : 12 20 23 21 23 20 22 10 19 Avg scan (sec): 58 61 59 51 46 60 59 51 54 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 708 1223 1363 1106 1117 1189 1287 530 1066 Total GB(M5): 630 1087 1212 983 993 1057 1144 471 947 # 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: 7576.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ho| 184 29 192 207 14 19 29 674 Kk| 187 226 300 231 136 56 1320 Ny| 254 271 334 448 210 1733 Sh| 459 128 212 135 1606 Ts| 149 206 123 1715 Wf| 315 109 1280 Wz| 208 1544 Zc| 870 Number of 2-station scans: 318 Number of 3-station scans: 272 Number of 4-station scans: 234 Number of 5-station scans: 121 Number of 6-station scans: 76 Number of 7-station scans: 23 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1044 5371 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 SESHAN25 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 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 1347+539 1.00 1.50 0.86 46 13 1313-333 1.00 1.50 0.78 42 18 0828+493 1.00 1.50 0.88 47 5 0159+723 1.00 1.50 1.58 85 6 1111+149 1.00 1.50 1.01 54 16 1936-155 1.00 1.50 0.60 32 14 2355-106 1.00 1.50 1.10 59 20 1751+288 1.00 1.50 1.97 106 14 OQ172 1.00 1.50 0.91 49 20 0502+049 1.00 1.50 0.99 53 21 Total 10.67 573 147 =========================================================== 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 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 Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 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