Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1346 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 R1346 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-273-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-274-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008273 (2008.75) ( 14739 MJD, MON. 29SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 17:35: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 25.4m -2d 44.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were 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 Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 1357+769 08273-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43| 1923+210 08273-170157| 43 43 | 0235+164 08273-170210| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 0556+238 08274-165732| 43 43 | 0458-020 08274-165859| 43 43 | 1749+096 08274-165916| 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1346.skd for experiment R1346 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Ny-Wz on 1741-038) RMS = 14.9 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: 23 37 14 43 36 40 15 30 % cal. time: 4 6 3 8 6 6 3 5 % slew time: 45 28 13 29 24 18 35 28 % idle time: 28 28 69 19 34 36 47 38 total # scans: 356 511 217 655 500 501 219 422 # scans/hour : 15 21 9 27 21 21 9 18 Avg scan (sec): 55 63 55 57 62 69 58 59 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 705 1157 428 1351 1116 1236 456 921 Total GB(M5): 627 1029 380 1201 992 1099 405 819 # 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: 5732.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 187 15 300 8 17 16 543 Kk| 118 367 220 174 79 1145 Ny| 138 172 180 89 712 Ts| 210 247 145 1407 Wf| 398 162 1170 Wz| 198 1214 Zc| 689 Number of 2-station scans: 453 Number of 3-station scans: 322 Number of 4-station scans: 141 Number of 5-station scans: 53 Number of 6-station scans: 43 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1012 3440 =========================================================== 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 1219+285 1.00 1.50 0.58 20 10 2312-319 1.00 1.50 0.32 11 11 0430+289 1.00 1.50 0.44 15 11 NGC0262 1.00 1.50 0.41 14 14 0839+187 1.00 1.50 0.09 3 3 1624+416 1.00 1.50 0.78 27 14 M81 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1020+400 1.00 1.50 1.25 43 15 1856+736 1.00 1.50 0.87 30 11 0215+015 1.00 1.50 0.09 3 3 Total 4.83 166 92 =========================================================== 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