Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1345 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 R1345 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-266-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-267-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008266 (2008.73) ( 14732 MJD, MON. 22SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 17: 7: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 0.2m 0d 1.3 =========================================================== 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 Sh Wf Wz Zc 1357+769 08266-170000| 43 43 43 43 43| 3C418 08266-170129| 46 46 | 0400+258 08266-170229| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz Zc 0602+673 08267-164906| 59 59 43| 1034-293 08267-165016| 43 43 | 1124-186 08267-165135| 43 43 | 0458-020 08267-165144| 81 81 | 1334-127 08267-165255| 43 43 | 1557+032 08267-165418| 200 200 | 0454-234 08267-165434| 43 43 43 | 0405-385 08267-165630| 76 60 76 | 0823+033 08267-165845| 73 73 | 0208-512 08267-165910| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1345.skd for experiment R1345 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 81.5 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0607-157) RMS = 15.3 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Sh=SESHAN25 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 23 34 34 38 39 13 30 % cal. time: 4 6 6 6 6 3 5 % slew time: 42 28 43 26 19 34 33 % idle time: 30 31 16 29 34 50 32 total # scans: 358 505 503 548 542 216 445 # scans/hour : 15 21 21 23 23 9 19 Avg scan (sec): 56 58 58 60 62 52 57 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 716 1053 1052 1178 1212 405 936 Total GB(M5): 636 936 935 1047 1078 360 832 # 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: 4992.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz Zc StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ho| 233 265 15 19 22 554 Kk| 282 224 156 61 956 Sh| 123 206 114 990 Wf| 424 137 923 Wz| 201 1006 Zc| 535 Number of 2-station scans: 499 Number of 3-station scans: 397 Number of 4-station scans: 87 Number of 5-station scans: 27 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1010 2482 =========================================================== 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 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 0839+187 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0400+258 1.00 1.50 1.85 46 16 0615+820 1.00 1.50 1.09 27 6 1557+032 1.00 1.50 0.77 19 11 1451-400 1.00 1.50 0.36 9 9 1413+135 1.00 1.50 0.48 12 8 1656+477 1.00 1.50 1.05 26 7 1749+701 1.00 1.50 0.97 24 6 1030+415 1.00 1.50 1.09 27 10 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 0.56 14 8 Total 8.22 204 81 =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE 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 Sh Wf Wz Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Sh 20 20 Sh 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15