Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1328 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 R1328 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-133-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-134-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008133 (2008.36) ( 14599 MJD, MON. 12MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 8:23: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 3h 19.7m 18d 21.0 =========================================================== 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 Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 08133-170000| 57 40 57 40 54| 1923+210 08133-170000| 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 08134-165024| 54 54| 2318+049 08134-165309| 74 74 | 1124-186 08134-165326| 40 40 40| CTA26 08134-165512| 70 70 | 1334-127 08134-165707| 40 40 40 | 0552+398 08134-165851| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1328.skd for experiment R1328 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 144.0 (Baseline Ho-Tc on 0119+115) RMS = 15.2 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 39 26 32 52 39 43 34 38 % cal. time: 3 3 4 4 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 40 54 46 11 24 20 15 31 % idle time: 17 16 17 32 29 31 45 27 total # scans: 279 282 355 319 526 421 430 373 # scans/hour : 12 12 15 13 22 18 18 16 Avg scan (sec): 120 81 77 140 64 88 68 90 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1306 922 1114 1719 1401 1482 1214 1308 Total GB(M5): 1161 819 990 1528 1245 1317 1079 1163 # 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: 8140.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 134 9 179 8 142 116 588 Hh| 74 93 56 55 141 553 Ho| 124 224 15 20 466 Tc| 31 113 55 595 Ts| 202 205 726 Wf| 227 754 Wz| 764 Number of 2-station scans: 640 Number of 3-station scans: 315 Number of 4-station scans: 68 Number of 5-station scans: 23 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1046 2223 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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: HARTRAO 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 0221+067 1.00 1.50 0.81 18 12 0302+625 1.00 1.50 0.81 18 18 0507+179 1.00 1.50 0.72 16 16 1053+704 1.00 1.50 1.12 25 21 1849+670 1.00 1.50 1.53 34 16 0812+367 1.00 1.50 0.85 19 19 1743+173 1.00 1.50 0.72 16 14 1502+106 1.00 1.50 1.12 25 9 1215+303 1.00 1.50 0.72 16 16 2250+194 1.00 1.50 0.49 11 11 Total 8.91 198 152 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF FF =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 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 Ho Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ho Tc Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15