Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1342 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 R1342 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-246-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-247-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008246 (2008.67) ( 14712 MJD, TUES 2SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15:48: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 48.3m 7d 35.9 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 Ts Wf Wz Zc 1357+769 08246-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43| 0955+476 08246-170132| 43 43 43 | 2234+282 08246-170143| 62 43 62 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 0727-115 08247-165724| 43 43 | 2113+293 08247-165754| 70 43 70 45| 0537-441 08247-165855| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1342.skd for experiment R1342 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.6 Min = 0.0 Max = 94.4 (Baseline Ny-Wf on 1749+096) RMS = 15.8 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 22 37 43 40 38 40 15 34 % cal. time: 4 6 7 7 6 6 3 6 % slew time: 43 31 31 29 25 19 40 32 % idle time: 30 25 18 22 30 34 41 29 total # scans: 358 558 579 647 529 545 255 495 # scans/hour : 15 23 24 27 22 23 11 21 Avg scan (sec): 54 58 64 54 62 63 52 57 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 699 1162 1325 1259 1179 1234 478 1048 Total GB(M5): 621 1033 1178 1119 1048 1097 425 932 # 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: 6521.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 202 42 275 13 31 23 586 Kk| 224 364 258 167 87 1302 Ny| 311 366 445 211 1599 Ts| 187 250 136 1523 Wf| 344 150 1318 Wz| 228 1465 Zc| 835 Number of 2-station scans: 451 Number of 3-station scans: 330 Number of 4-station scans: 213 Number of 5-station scans: 89 Number of 6-station scans: 47 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1130 4314 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 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: 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 0309+411 1.00 1.50 0.72 31 25 1502+036 1.00 1.50 0.88 38 19 0003+380 1.00 1.50 1.04 45 18 0735+178 1.00 1.50 0.95 41 20 0609+607 1.00 1.50 1.37 59 10 1012+232 1.00 1.50 0.95 41 17 1308+328 1.00 1.50 0.86 37 15 0423+051 1.00 1.50 0.37 16 14 1830+285 1.00 1.50 0.79 34 18 1928+738 1.00 1.50 1.81 78 9 Total 9.74 420 165 =========================================================== 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 Ts TSUKUB32 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 Ts Wf Wz Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 Ts 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