Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1329 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 R1329 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-140-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-141-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008140 (2008.38) ( 14606 MJD, MON. 19MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 8:50: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 3h 47.4m 19d 57.0 =========================================================== Important Station Information Fortaleza was tagged along to session because the media is being held up in customs. =========================================================== 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 Ny Tc Ts Wz 1128+385 08140-170000| 200 200 200 40 40| 2243-123 08140-170206| 133 133 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wz 0537-441 08141-165714| 40 40 40 | 1739+522 08141-165902| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1329.skd for experiment R1329 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.2 Min = 0.0 Max = 110.8 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 13.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 9 31 42 27 36 35 30 % cal. time: 1 3 6 2 5 5 4 % slew time: 10 53 31 6 23 17 24 % idle time: 79 12 21 65 35 42 43 total # scans: 77 261 505 161 463 447 319 # scans/hour : 3 11 21 7 19 19 13 Avg scan (sec): 101 103 71 143 67 67 91 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 308 1063 1477 887 1281 1237 1042 Total GB(M5): 274 945 1313 788 1139 1099 926 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5558.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ft| 70 7 64 1 45 187 Hh| 35 120 74 119 418 Ny| 8 371 346 767 Tc| 30 39 261 Ts| 239 715 Wz| 788 Number of 2-station scans: 445 Number of 3-station scans: 277 Number of 4-station scans: 47 Number of 5-station scans: 1 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 770 1568 =========================================================== 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 NYALES20 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0636+680 1.00 1.50 0.83 13 9 1504+377 1.00 1.50 0.89 14 14 0605-085 1.00 1.50 0.70 11 9 1821+107 1.00 1.50 0.70 11 6 1642+690 1.00 1.50 1.53 24 8 NGC1218 1.00 1.50 0.26 4 4 0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.28 20 14 1406-076 1.00 1.50 0.89 14 10 1240+381 1.00 1.50 0.83 13 11 0123+257 1.00 1.50 0.83 13 8 Total 8.74 137 93 =========================================================== 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 F =========================================================== 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Hh 20 Hh 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15