Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1355 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 R1355 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-336-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-337-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008336 (2008.92) ( 14802 MJD, MON. 1DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21:43: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 32.9m -21d 55.8 =========================================================== 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 Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 1342+662 08336-170000| 63 43 78 78 50| 2000+472 08336-170214| 43 43 43 | OJ287 08336-170223| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 0529+483 08337-163623| 43 43 43 43| 1800+440 08337-163801| 43 43 43 | 0524+034 08337-163812| 43 43 43 | 2136+141 08337-163937| 43 43 43 | 0607-157 08337-164018| 43 43 43 | 0646-306 08337-164215| 43 43 43 | 1044+719 08337-164430| 43 43 43 | OJ287 08337-164624| 43 43 43 | 1908-201 08337-164637| 82 82 | 0854-108 08337-164850| 43 43 43 | 1128+385 08337-165118| 43 43 43 43 | 1611+343 08337-165253| 43 43 43 | 1004-217 08337-165254| 43 43 | 1324+224 08337-165430| 43 43 43 43 | 4C39.25 08337-165644| 43 43 43 43 | 0729+259 08337-165822| 77 77 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1355.skd for experiment R1355 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Ny-Ts on 1351-018) RMS = 15.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 21 33 17 37 38 37 13 28 % cal. time: 4 6 4 8 6 6 3 5 % slew time: 48 32 19 31 25 18 34 30 % idle time: 26 28 59 23 30 38 50 37 total # scans: 384 554 322 698 527 515 221 460 # scans/hour : 16 23 13 29 22 21 9 19 Avg scan (sec): 48 52 45 46 62 62 50 51 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 661 1038 525 1155 1168 1151 394 870 Total GB(M5): 587 923 467 1027 1038 1023 350 774 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5414.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 231 26 332 18 24 36 667 Kk| 171 393 250 152 63 1260 Ny| 211 235 249 98 990 Ts| 200 262 143 1541 Wf| 365 109 1177 Wz| 194 1246 Zc| 643 Number of 2-station scans: 403 Number of 3-station scans: 370 Number of 4-station scans: 194 Number of 5-station scans: 95 Number of 6-station scans: 9 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1071 3762 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: 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 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 1013+127 1.00 1.50 0.66 25 13 1445-161 1.00 1.50 0.11 4 4 2307+106 1.00 1.50 0.77 29 21 1754+155 1.00 1.50 0.85 32 14 0738+491 1.00 1.50 1.20 45 9 0215+015 1.00 1.50 1.65 62 25 1342+662 1.00 1.50 1.41 53 8 0506-612 1.00 1.50 0.21 8 8 0736+017 1.00 1.50 1.12 42 19 0426+273 1.00 1.50 0.96 36 15 Total 8.93 336 136 =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 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) Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 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 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15 15