Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1340 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 R1340 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-217-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-218-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008217 (2008.59) ( 14683 MJD, MON. 4AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:54: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 9h 0.5m 17d 0.3 =========================================================== 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 Ma Sv Tc Wf Wz 1334-127 08217-170000| 69 43 53 43 83 83 61| 0537-441 08217-170231| 57 57 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ma Sv Tc Wf Wz 0454-234 08218-165538| 98 98 | 0955+476 08218-165725| 112 112 | 1749+096 08218-165832| 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1340.skd for experiment R1340 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 60.8 (Baseline Ho-Tc on 1741-038) RMS = 11.3 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ma=MATERA Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Ma Sv Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 40 25 29 37 34 51 41 31 36 % cal. time: 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 5 4 % slew time: 39 60 40 31 52 12 19 14 34 % idle time: 17 10 27 26 9 32 35 49 26 total # scans: 299 318 279 420 387 321 381 427 354 # scans/hour : 12 13 12 18 16 13 16 18 15 Avg scan (sec): 117 67 91 75 75 138 92 63 89 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1257 770 911 1139 1046 1599 1267 964 1119 Total GB(M5): 1117 685 810 1012 930 1422 1127 857 995 # 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: 7959.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ma Sv Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 91 8 62 37 187 159 54 598 Hh| 140 115 71 53 33 98 601 Ho| 15 23 108 17 13 324 Ma| 312 38 146 317 1005 Sv| 17 117 284 861 Tc| 126 31 560 Wf| 193 791 Wz| 990 Number of 2-station scans: 591 Number of 3-station scans: 282 Number of 4-station scans: 135 Number of 5-station scans: 21 Number of 6-station scans: 23 Number of 7-station scans: 3 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1055 2865 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA HOBART26 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 MATERA SVETLOE 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 2059-786 1.00 1.50 0.24 7 7 0309+411 1.00 1.50 0.66 19 19 1236-684 1.00 1.50 0.59 17 17 0735+178 1.00 1.50 0.91 26 16 1448+762 1.00 1.50 0.66 19 19 1432+200 1.00 1.50 0.73 21 8 0003+380 1.00 1.50 1.12 32 13 1215+303 1.00 1.50 0.49 14 14 2017+743 1.00 1.50 0.52 15 15 DA426 1.00 1.50 0.98 28 10 Total 6.91 198 138 =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ma MATERA Mark5A Sv SVETLOE 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) Ft Hh Ho Ma Sv Tc Wf Ft Hh Ho Ma Sv Tc Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Sv 20 20 20 20 Sv 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15