Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1327 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 R1327 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-126-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-127-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008126 (2008.35) ( 14592 MJD, MON. 5MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7:55: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 52.4m 16d 29.9 =========================================================== Important Station Information Badary was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 Wf Wz 0727-115 08126-170000| 57 40 134 134 40 53| 0820+560 08126-170154| 72 135 135| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0537-441 08127-165318| 60 40 60 | 1611+343 08127-165400| 40 40 40 40| 1357+769 08127-165547| 40 40 40 40| 0208-512 08127-165603| 92 92 | OQ208 08127-165727| 40 72 72 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1327.skd for experiment R1327 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 76.4 (Baseline Ny-On on CTA26 ) RMS = 9.7 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Bd=BADARY Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 16 38 27 35 46 32 33 40 34 % cal. time: 2 3 3 4 5 2 4 5 3 % slew time: 29 38 45 19 28 7 15 14 25 % idle time: 51 19 24 42 20 58 47 40 38 total # scans: 190 286 228 310 413 179 312 399 289 # scans/hour : 8 12 10 13 17 7 13 17 12 Avg scan (sec): 74 116 103 97 96 154 92 87 102 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 572 1298 927 1191 1582 1058 1150 1398 1147 Total GB(M5): 508 1153 824 1059 1406 941 1022 1243 1020 # 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: 8156.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 12 39 125 157 0 68 151 552 Ft| 142 36 72 146 154 72 634 Hh| 34 80 82 51 117 545 Ny| 254 11 157 196 813 On| 34 149 321 1067 Tc| 92 32 397 Wf| 136 807 Wz| 1025 Number of 2-station scans: 321 Number of 3-station scans: 231 Number of 4-station scans: 95 Number of 5-station scans: 76 Number of 6-station scans: 30 Number of 7-station scans: 6 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 759 2920 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: BADARY HARTRAO NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 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 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.51 44 13 0111+021 1.00 1.50 0.45 13 13 0820+560 1.00 1.50 1.47 43 12 1557+032 1.00 1.50 0.58 17 9 0016+731 1.00 1.50 1.54 45 19 1150+497 1.00 1.50 1.61 47 7 3C138 1.00 1.50 0.99 29 17 1738+476 1.00 1.50 1.30 38 8 2214+350 1.00 1.50 1.27 37 12 1049+215 1.00 1.50 0.86 25 15 Total 11.58 338 125 =========================================================== 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 TFF =========================================================== 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 Wf WESTFORD 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 Wf Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf 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 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15