Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1344 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 R1344 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-259-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-260-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008259 (2008.71) ( 14725 MJD, MON. 15SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:40: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 35.1m 2d 41.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Ny On Sh Wf Zc 0552+398 08259-170000| 43 43 43 43 | 0727-115 08259-170126| 43 43 | 1606+106 08259-170319| 44 43 44 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Ny On Sh Wf Zc 1357+769 08260-165521| 43 43 43 43| OJ287 08260-165706| 43 43 | 3C274 08260-165841| 43 43 | CTA26 08260-165903| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1344.skd for experiment R1344 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.1 Min = 0.0 Max = 180.0 (Baseline Ny-On on 1741-038) RMS = 16.4 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25 Wf=WESTFORD Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Ny On Sh Wf Zc Avg % obs. time: 22 43 41 38 40 14 33 % cal. time: 3 6 6 6 5 3 5 % slew time: 34 29 35 40 22 39 34 % idle time: 40 21 17 15 31 43 28 total # scans: 299 515 519 495 448 242 419 # scans/hour : 12 21 22 21 19 10 17 Avg scan (sec): 65 72 68 67 78 49 65 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 694 1340 1270 1187 1253 428 1029 Total GB(M5): 617 1191 1129 1055 1114 381 915 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5487.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Ny On Sh Wf Zc StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ho| 9 5 271 28 30 343 Ny| 457 195 344 192 1197 On| 187 351 203 1203 Sh| 134 134 921 Wf| 139 996 Zc| 698 Number of 2-station scans: 425 Number of 3-station scans: 252 Number of 4-station scans: 163 Number of 5-station scans: 52 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 892 2679 =========================================================== 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: NYALES20 ONSALA60 WESTFORD 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 0738+313 1.00 1.50 1.53 41 13 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.46 39 5 1656+053 1.00 1.50 0.97 26 17 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.08 29 17 1011+250 1.00 1.50 0.82 22 14 0836+710 1.00 1.50 2.16 58 9 1213+350 1.00 1.50 1.12 30 11 0406+121 1.00 1.50 0.41 11 9 0256+075 1.00 1.50 0.63 17 11 2320+506 1.00 1.50 1.16 31 7 Total 11.35 304 113 =========================================================== 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 F =========================================================== 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ho Ny On Sh Wf Ho Ny On Sh Wf Ny 20 Ny 15 On 20 20 On 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15