Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1330 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2008.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1330 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Start: 2008-148-17:00:00 End: 2008-149-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008148 (2008.41) ( 14614 MJD, TUES 27MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 9:22: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 4h 19.7m 21d 26.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Fortaleza was tagged along to this session because it is unknown when Fortaleza's media will be released from 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 Sh Tc Ts Wz 0727-115 08148-170000| 55 43 55 55| 1923+210 08148-170000| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Ts Wz 0727-115 08149-165250| 43 43 43 | 2126-158 08149-165400| 43 43 | 0123+257 08149-165537| 86 86 | 1124-186 08149-165700| 43 43| 2145+067 08149-165750| 43 43 | 0749+540 08149-165844| 70 70| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1330.skd for experiment R1330 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.1 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 14.2 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 12 40 45 38 39 41 42 37 % cal. time: 1 3 6 6 3 7 6 4 % slew time: 13 49 25 41 7 23 17 25 % idle time: 73 7 23 14 50 29 35 33 total # scans: 104 287 481 515 240 565 488 382 # scans/hour : 4 12 20 21 10 24 20 16 Avg scan (sec): 103 120 81 64 141 63 75 91 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 385 1241 1408 1180 1214 1283 1310 1146 Total GB(M5): 343 1103 1252 1049 1079 1141 1165 1019 # 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: 7130.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Ts Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 98 5 0 91 0 39 233 Hh| 23 31 184 19 104 459 Ny| 252 8 302 347 937 Sh| 2 448 219 952 Tc| 35 44 364 Ts| 207 1011 Wz| 960 Number of 2-station scans: 606 Number of 3-station scans: 240 Number of 4-station scans: 182 Number of 5-station scans: 4 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1032 2458 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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: 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 1.10 27 9 1504+377 1.00 1.50 0.98 24 20 0605-085 1.00 1.50 0.94 23 21 1821+107 1.00 1.50 0.94 23 17 1642+690 1.00 1.50 1.26 31 9 NGC1218 1.00 1.50 0.65 16 14 0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.34 33 18 1406-076 1.00 1.50 0.94 23 18 1240+381 1.00 1.50 0.98 24 11 0123+257 1.00 1.50 0.94 23 11 Total 10.05 247 148 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT FF =========================================================== Major Options Subnet FtHhNyShTcTsWz SkyCov Yes AllowSubnet Yes All_Bl_Good Yes FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Best% 60.0 Min_Between 20 Last_Hrs 1.00 MaxSlewTime 300 MinSubNetSize 2 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 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 Sh Tc Ts Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Ts Hh 20 Hh 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15