Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1338 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 R1338 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-203-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-204-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008203 (2008.56) ( 14669 MJD, MON. 21JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12:59: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 5.8m 20d 17.9 =========================================================== 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 Sh Tc Wf Wz 1334-127 08203-170000| 73 43 73 71| 2136+141 08203-170000| 43 43 43 | 2234+282 08203-170200| 88 88 | CTA26 08203-170227| 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Wf Wz 0727-115 08204-165221| 64 64 43 | 1606+106 08204-165404| 130 130 50 43| OK290 08204-165557| 200 200 | 1741-038 08204-165814| 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1338.skd for experiment R1338 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Sh-Wz on 1622-253) RMS = 11.4 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Bd=BADARY Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Bd Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 18 49 31 48 41 49 52 40 41 % cal. time: 3 4 3 5 4 3 4 5 4 % slew time: 38 35 54 25 36 11 18 15 29 % idle time: 40 11 11 21 18 36 25 39 26 total # scans: 248 313 285 451 388 294 382 432 349 # scans/hour : 10 13 12 19 16 12 16 18 15 Avg scan (sec): 64 136 92 91 91 145 118 80 101 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 569 1528 948 1485 1269 1534 1626 1245 1275 Total GB(M5): 506 1359 843 1320 1128 1363 1445 1107 1134 # 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: 9069.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 2 37 192 215 0 83 148 677 Ft| 128 15 0 225 123 46 539 Hh| 22 72 119 39 91 508 Ny| 277 8 186 290 990 Sh| 2 102 207 875 Tc| 111 27 492 Wf| 170 814 Wz| 979 Number of 2-station scans: 454 Number of 3-station scans: 342 Number of 4-station scans: 132 Number of 5-station scans: 65 Number of 6-station scans: 1 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 994 2937 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: BADARY HARTRAO NYALES20 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 SESHAN25 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 0309+411 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1219+285 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1610-771 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2017+743 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0342+147 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0710+439 1.00 1.50 0.92 27 17 1656+477 1.00 1.50 1.50 44 17 1030+415 1.00 1.50 1.19 35 11 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 0.51 15 9 1448+762 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 4.12 121 54 =========================================================== 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 24.00 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 Sh SESHAN25 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 Sh Tc Wf Bd Ft Hh Ny Sh Tc Wf Ft 20 Ft 15 Hh 20 20 Hh 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 20 Sh 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