Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1325 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 R1325 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master file. Nominal start: 2008-113-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-114-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008113 (2008.31) ( 14579 MJD, TUES 22APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7: 4: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 2.9m 12d 29.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information Badary was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wz 0528+134 08113-170000| 200 200 99 40| 0607-157 08113-170000| 183 183 | 0955+476 08113-170424| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wz 0537-441 08114-164401| 57 50 57 | 1257+145 08114-164733| 200 200 200| OJ287 08114-165155| 69 69 56 40| 1308+326 08114-165404| 146 146 146 104| 1124-186 08114-165624| 40 40| 1611+343 08114-165749| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1325.skd for experiment R1325 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 54.5 (Baseline Ny-On on CTA26 ) RMS = 10.4 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Bd=BADARY Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wz=WETTZELL Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wz Avg % obs. time: 13 35 27 37 45 27 36 31 % cal. time: 2 3 3 4 4 2 4 3 % slew time: 25 39 47 19 27 6 13 26 % idle time: 58 22 22 39 23 64 45 40 total # scans: 164 255 239 304 380 165 376 269 # scans/hour : 7 11 10 13 16 7 16 11 Avg scan (sec): 71 119 97 105 101 143 82 102 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 479 1186 919 1259 1521 910 1247 1074 Total GB(M5): 425 1054 817 1119 1352 809 1109 955 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6685.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Bd| 15 48 128 139 0 138 468 Ft| 143 45 78 150 88 519 Hh| 50 102 76 131 550 Ny| 277 12 237 749 On| 37 307 940 Tc| 35 310 Wz| 936 Number of 2-station scans: 247 Number of 3-station scans: 206 Number of 4-station scans: 96 Number of 5-station scans: 69 Number of 6-station scans: 7 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 625 2236 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: BADARY HARTRAO NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC 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 Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0342+147 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1257+145 1.00 1.50 0.54 12 8 0952+179 1.00 1.50 0.94 21 11 1937-101 1.00 1.50 0.49 11 11 VR422201 1.00 1.50 2.28 51 12 3C147 1.00 1.50 1.57 35 21 1435+638 1.00 1.50 1.79 40 16 1732+389 1.00 1.50 1.79 40 12 1614+051 1.00 1.50 0.85 19 3 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 10.24 229 94 =========================================================== 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 TF =========================================================== 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 Bd BADARY Mark5A Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Ft 20 Ft 15 Hh 20 20 Hh 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12