Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1347 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 R1347 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-280-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-281-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008280 (2008.77) ( 14746 MJD, MON. 6OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18: 2: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 50.8m -5d 26.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 0727-115 08280-170000| 43 43 | 1611+343 08280-170000| 112 75 112 76 47 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc 1124-186 08281-165530| 200 200 142 | 0229+131 08281-165543| 43 43 | 0048-097 08281-165707| 43 43 43| 0014+813 08281-165726| 57 57 | 0823+033 08281-165904| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1347.skd for experiment R1347 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 14.3 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 39 26 45 41 37 44 38 15 36 % cal. time: 3 3 6 3 6 5 6 3 4 % slew time: 41 53 32 10 25 21 18 40 30 % idle time: 16 17 16 45 30 29 37 41 29 total # scans: 283 264 550 250 522 421 492 261 380 # scans/hour : 12 11 23 10 22 18 21 11 16 Avg scan (sec): 120 85 71 143 62 91 66 51 85 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1219 811 1407 1285 1162 1375 1174 481 1114 Total GB(M5): 1084 721 1251 1142 1033 1222 1043 428 991 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7924.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 124 35 175 12 145 75 26 592 Hh| 23 82 67 46 115 56 513 Ny| 20 391 230 363 204 1266 Tc| 35 121 35 9 477 Ts| 170 264 178 1117 Wf| 204 87 1003 Wz| 189 1245 Zc| 749 Number of 2-station scans: 409 Number of 3-station scans: 355 Number of 4-station scans: 167 Number of 5-station scans: 90 Number of 6-station scans: 7 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1028 3481 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 0.00 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: HARTRAO NYALES20 TIGOCONC 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 0.00 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 3C245 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1155+251 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0458+138 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1933-400 1.00 1.50 0.17 6 6 NGC6454 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0949+354 1.00 1.50 0.11 4 4 1932+204 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1049+215 1.00 1.50 0.80 28 15 M81 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1705+456 1.00 1.50 0.83 29 12 Total 1.92 67 37 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF FFF =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC 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) Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Hh 20 Hh 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 12 15 15 15