Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1350 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 R1350 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-301-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-302-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008301 (2008.82) ( 14767 MJD, MON. 27OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:25: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 9.5m -13d 4.2 =========================================================== 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 Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Zc 0537-441 08301-170000| 43 43 43 | NRAO512 08301-170000| 49 49 43| 0955+476 08301-170237| 43 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Zc 2136+141 08302-165447| 77 77 | 1013+054 08302-165558| 43 43 | 0235+164 08302-165823| 43 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1350.skd for experiment R1350 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ft-Ts on 1324+224) RMS = 15.0 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 28 24 31 10 35 39 16 26 % cal. time: 3 5 6 2 8 5 3 4 % slew time: 38 54 28 9 29 17 36 31 % idle time: 30 16 34 78 27 38 45 39 total # scans: 253 413 491 178 673 464 229 385 # scans/hour : 11 17 20 7 28 19 10 16 Avg scan (sec): 95 51 55 46 45 72 59 60 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 869 757 977 297 1096 1208 486 813 Total GB(M5): 772 673 868 264 974 1074 432 722 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5057.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 16 36 11 21 203 89 376 Ho| 275 45 347 39 40 762 Kk| 109 402 112 56 990 Ny| 165 130 62 522 Ts| 266 141 1342 Wz| 208 958 Zc| 596 Number of 2-station scans: 390 Number of 3-station scans: 405 Number of 4-station scans: 128 Number of 5-station scans: 34 Number of 6-station scans: 4 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 961 2773 =========================================================== 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 NYALES20 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 1656-075 1.00 1.50 1.15 32 16 1004-217 1.00 1.50 0.50 14 10 0115-214 1.00 1.50 0.94 26 14 2127-096 1.00 1.50 1.19 33 17 1623+578 1.00 1.50 1.05 29 8 1145+268 1.00 1.50 1.01 28 11 0613+570 1.00 1.50 1.01 28 10 2214+350 1.00 1.50 1.26 35 12 0422-380 1.00 1.50 1.15 32 18 0536+145 1.00 1.50 1.62 45 16 Total 10.89 302 132 =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 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 Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 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