Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1352 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 R1352 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-315-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-316-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008315 (2008.86) ( 14781 MJD, MON. 10NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20:20: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 4.9m -17d 22.8 =========================================================== 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 0358+210 08315-170000| 200 196 86 200 130| 1611+343 08315-170447| 53 53 49 | 0237-027 08315-170456| 43 43 43| 1150+812 08315-170654| 43 43 43 | 1546+027 08315-170822| 43 43 | 0859-140 08315-170851| 43 43 | 1212+171 08315-171023| 43 43 | 0110+495 08315-171218| 46 46 46| CTA102 08315-171350| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Zc CTA102 08316-164927| 43 43 43 | 0743+259 08316-165137| 49 49 43 | 1013+054 08316-165417| 43 43 43 | 1418+546 08316-165623| 66 43 66 43| 0235+164 08316-165853| 43 43 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1352.skd for experiment R1352 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.1 Min = 0.0 Max = 80.0 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0648-165) RMS = 14.3 Total time: 1440 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: 25 24 32 7 35 36 13 25 % cal. time: 3 5 6 2 8 5 2 4 % slew time: 38 52 29 7 31 17 33 30 % idle time: 33 18 32 83 26 40 50 41 total # scans: 247 411 521 131 678 450 212 378 # scans/hour : 10 17 22 5 28 19 9 16 Avg scan (sec): 86 50 53 46 45 70 55 57 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 765 740 992 215 1088 1129 418 764 Total GB(M5): 680 658 882 191 967 1004 371 679 # 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: 4752.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 10 47 17 12 201 80 367 Ho| 268 38 340 33 38 727 Kk| 64 407 99 47 932 Ny| 115 91 52 377 Ts| 239 126 1239 Wz| 192 855 Zc| 535 Number of 2-station scans: 466 Number of 3-station scans: 405 Number of 4-station scans: 90 Number of 5-station scans: 25 Number of 6-station scans: 3 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 989 2516 =========================================================== 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 0035-252 1.00 1.50 0.83 21 13 0641+392 1.00 1.50 1.31 33 25 1846+322 1.00 1.50 1.19 30 15 1212+171 1.00 1.50 0.76 19 10 0420+022 1.00 1.50 1.71 43 22 1546+027 1.00 1.50 1.75 44 19 CTA102 1.00 1.50 2.74 69 17 1150+812 1.00 1.50 1.43 36 10 0859-140 1.00 1.50 0.79 20 12 0110+495 1.00 1.50 1.11 28 10 Total 13.63 343 153 =========================================================== 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