Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1351 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 R1351 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-308-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-309-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008308 (2008.84) ( 14774 MJD, MON. 3NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:53: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 36.9m -15d 19.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund 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 Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz 0642+449 08308-170000| 43 43 43 43| 2113+293 08308-170146| 54 54| 1144-379 08308-170248| 200 200 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz 0235+164 08309-165056| 43 43 43| 1128+385 08309-165233| 43 43 43| 1149-084 08309-165417| 200 200 200 | 1639+230 08309-165615| 200 200| 1027-186 08309-165818| 81 81 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1351.skd for experiment R1351 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 80.0 (Baseline Kk-Wf on 1144-379) RMS = 13.9 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 42 26 40 11 43 50 41 36 % cal. time: 3 4 5 1 3 5 4 4 % slew time: 40 44 26 8 9 21 15 24 % idle time: 14 25 28 78 44 24 39 36 total # scans: 255 316 460 128 232 425 387 314 # scans/hour : 11 13 19 5 10 18 16 13 Avg scan (sec): 142 71 75 76 161 101 92 102 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1299 811 1237 349 1348 1550 1275 1124 Total GB(M5): 1155 721 1099 310 1198 1377 1133 999 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 7.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6993.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 23 50 32 137 130 122 494 Ho| 246 27 73 29 37 435 Kk| 91 95 195 125 802 Ny| 22 93 88 353 Tc| 92 32 451 Wf| 278 817 Wz| 682 Number of 2-station scans: 512 Number of 3-station scans: 233 Number of 4-station scans: 86 Number of 5-station scans: 20 Number of 6-station scans: 6 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 857 2017 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA HOBART26 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 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL 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 1027-186 1.00 1.50 1.04 21 17 2215+020 1.00 1.50 1.14 23 15 0759+183 1.00 1.50 0.79 16 14 2309+454 1.00 1.50 1.09 22 8 1705+018 1.00 1.50 0.64 13 11 1053+704 1.00 1.50 1.24 25 12 1636+473 1.00 1.50 1.14 23 14 0400-319 1.00 1.50 1.24 25 17 0446+112 1.00 1.50 2.08 42 11 0119+041 1.00 1.50 0.59 12 8 Total 11.01 222 127 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT 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 Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Wf Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15