Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1349 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 R1349 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-294-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-295-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008294 (2008.81) ( 14760 MJD, MON. 20OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18:58: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 42.8m -10d 38.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Yebes 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 Ft Ho Kk Ts Wf Wz Ys Zc 1357+769 08294-170000| 200 200 85 190 109 57 68| 2355-106 08294-170252| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ts Wf Wz Ys Zc 2234+282 08295-165114| 43 43 43| 0405-385 08295-165154| 43 43 | 2113+293 08295-165247| 43 64 64 43 | 0237-027 08295-165429| 43 43 | 1015+057 08295-165507| 55 55 | 1800+440 08295-165507| 73 73 | 0607-157 08295-165723| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1349.skd for experiment R1349 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.2 Min = 0.0 Max = 81.5 (Baseline Kk-Ts on 2052-474) RMS = 13.5 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ys=YEBES40M Zc=ZELENCHK Ft Ho Kk Ts Wf Wz Ys Zc Avg % obs. time: 26 23 35 32 45 41 14 15 29 % cal. time: 3 5 6 7 6 6 3 3 5 % slew time: 43 48 30 28 25 18 45 36 35 % idle time: 27 24 28 31 23 34 37 45 32 total # scans: 269 391 521 625 539 515 260 239 419 # scans/hour : 11 16 22 26 22 21 11 10 18 Avg scan (sec): 82 50 58 45 72 68 46 53 58 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 797 709 1096 1009 1389 1268 430 456 894 Total GB(M5): 708 630 974 897 1234 1127 383 405 795 # 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: 6357.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ts Wf Wz Ys Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 13 27 5 193 137 89 48 512 Ho| 268 318 17 36 5 34 691 Kk| 411 215 131 72 78 1202 Ts| 182 241 111 135 1403 Wf| 317 179 141 1244 Wz| 217 205 1284 Ys| 118 791 Zc| 759 Number of 2-station scans: 355 Number of 3-station scans: 497 Number of 4-station scans: 161 Number of 5-station scans: 63 Number of 6-station scans: 32 Number of 7-station scans: 1 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1109 3943 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 0.00 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: KOKEE WESTFORD WETTZELL YEBES40M 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 1015+057 1.00 1.50 0.68 27 13 0338-214 1.00 1.50 1.32 52 22 1339-287 1.00 1.50 0.43 17 11 2008-159 1.00 1.50 1.22 48 18 0307+380 1.00 1.50 1.57 62 16 1348+308 1.00 1.50 0.79 31 15 0019+058 1.00 1.50 1.34 53 17 1615+029 1.00 1.50 1.22 48 20 0800+618 1.00 1.50 2.59 102 17 1800+440 1.00 1.50 1.88 74 20 Total 13.04 514 169 =========================================================== 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 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Ys YEBES40M Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Ho Kk Ts Wf Wz Ys Ft Ho Kk Ts Wf Wz Ys Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 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 Ys 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15 15 15