Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1339 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 R1339 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-210-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-211-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008210 (2008.58) ( 14676 MJD, MON. 28JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:26: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 33.4m 18d 46.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc 0133+476 08210-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 | 0528+134 08210-170136| 43 43 | 0048-097 08210-170317| 43 43 43 | 1124-186 08210-170318| 43 43 | 1705+456 08210-170504| 200 200 | 2234+282 08210-170554| 43 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc OQ208 08211-165648| 43 43 43| 0458-020 08211-165700| 79 79 | 1958-179 08211-165737| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1339.skd for experiment R1339 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 109.1 (Baseline Ny-Wz on CTA26 ) RMS = 15.3 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 23 38 39 36 38 39 17 33 % cal. time: 4 6 6 6 5 6 3 5 % slew time: 41 27 31 42 24 19 37 32 % idle time: 31 28 22 16 31 34 42 30 total # scans: 349 477 513 481 460 528 234 434 # scans/hour : 15 20 21 20 19 22 10 18 Avg scan (sec): 56 69 66 64 71 64 62 64 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 709 1183 1218 1108 1184 1215 525 1020 Total GB(M5): 630 1052 1083 985 1052 1080 467 907 # 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: 6349.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 222 2 238 12 10 20 504 Kk| 117 250 170 93 57 909 Ny| 158 294 409 173 1153 Sh| 78 159 102 985 Wf| 286 96 936 Wz| 188 1145 Zc| 636 Number of 2-station scans: 496 Number of 3-station scans: 409 Number of 4-station scans: 131 Number of 5-station scans: 49 Number of 6-station scans: 9 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1094 3134 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 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 Recording mode setup for: KOKEE NYALES20 WESTFORD WETTZELL ZELENCHK 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 1219+285 1.00 1.50 0.26 8 6 1624+416 1.00 1.50 0.99 31 11 1705+456 1.00 1.50 0.86 27 15 0430+289 1.00 1.50 0.35 11 7 1020+400 1.00 1.50 0.86 27 10 2017+743 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0920+390 1.00 1.50 0.80 25 14 0342+147 1.00 1.50 0.54 17 8 1221+809 1.00 1.50 1.18 37 17 1448+762 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 5.84 183 88 =========================================================== 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 FF =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ho Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Ho Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15 15