Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1343 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 R1343 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-252-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-253-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008252 (2008.69) ( 14718 MJD, MON. 8SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:12: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 10.0m 5d 21.9 =========================================================== 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 0955+476 08252-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 | 0552+398 08252-170134| 43 43 | 0607-157 08252-170210| 43 43 43 | 1928+738 08252-170307| 43 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 3C418 08253-165442| 100 43 100 70 43| 0106+013 08253-165636| 53 53 43 | 1749+096 08253-165715| 43 43 | 0434-188 08253-165826| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1343.skd for experiment R1343 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 180.0 (Baseline Wf-Zc on 0434-188) RMS = 17.0 Total time: 1439 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: 24 38 41 41 40 40 15 34 % cal. time: 4 6 6 7 6 6 3 6 % slew time: 46 30 31 29 25 18 39 32 % idle time: 26 24 20 22 28 34 42 28 total # scans: 375 561 555 637 520 545 236 489 # scans/hour : 16 23 23 27 22 23 10 20 Avg scan (sec): 54 59 64 55 67 64 53 59 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 733 1190 1280 1267 1255 1259 453 1062 Total GB(M5): 651 1058 1138 1126 1115 1119 402 944 # 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: 6609.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 234 36 279 11 25 22 607 Kk| 186 358 226 129 66 1199 Ny| 280 324 424 188 1438 Ts| 171 211 112 1411 Wf| 336 113 1181 Wz| 204 1329 Zc| 705 Number of 2-station scans: 490 Number of 3-station scans: 385 Number of 4-station scans: 185 Number of 5-station scans: 82 Number of 6-station scans: 24 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1166 3935 =========================================================== 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 0.84 33 25 1502+036 1.00 1.50 1.12 44 19 1004+141 1.00 1.50 0.81 32 20 1308+328 1.00 1.50 1.09 43 18 0003+380 1.00 1.50 1.17 46 15 0735+178 1.00 1.50 0.81 32 13 0609+607 1.00 1.50 1.45 57 15 1830+285 1.00 1.50 0.84 33 17 1928+738 1.00 1.50 1.91 75 8 0423+051 1.00 1.50 0.48 19 15 Total 10.52 414 165 =========================================================== 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