Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1358 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 R1358 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-357-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-358-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008357 (2008.98) ( 14823 MJD, MON. 22DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23: 6: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 18h 5.4m -23d 25.9 =========================================================== 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 Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc 0955+476 08357-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc OJ287 08358-163933| 43 43 43 | 1749+096 08358-164207| 43 43 43 | 3C446 08358-164339| 43 43 43| 1124-186 08358-164414| 43 43 | 2008-159 08358-164459| 88 88 | 1219+044 08358-164541| 43 43 | 1013+054 08358-164735| 43 43 | 2000+472 08358-164817| 43 43 43| 0847-120 08358-164910| 67 67 | 2319+317 08358-164947| 200 200 | 0727-115 08358-165059| 43 43 | 0656+082 08358-165239| 123 123 | 2113+293 08358-165344| 49 49 43| 0420-014 08358-165555| 43 43 | 1352-104 08358-165614| 175 175 | 0201+113 08358-165738| 71 71 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1358.skd for experiment R1358 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Kk-Ny on 1749+096) RMS = 13.9 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 39 13 42 50 43 16 34 % cal. time: 6 2 6 6 6 3 5 % slew time: 25 11 40 23 17 35 26 % idle time: 29 73 11 19 34 45 36 total # scans: 501 171 487 525 476 229 398 # scans/hour : 21 7 20 22 20 10 17 Avg scan (sec): 67 66 75 83 78 59 70 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1202 405 1310 1566 1335 490 1051 Total GB(M5): 1068 360 1165 1392 1187 436 934 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5606.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Kk| 89 337 287 171 96 980 Ny| 125 123 146 83 566 Sh| 183 249 160 1054 Wf| 361 150 1104 Wz| 205 1132 Zc| 694 Number of 2-station scans: 421 Number of 3-station scans: 214 Number of 4-station scans: 102 Number of 5-station scans: 61 Number of 6-station scans: 32 Total # of scans, observations: 830 2765 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX 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 Recording mode setup for: SESHAN25 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0743+277 1.00 1.50 0.90 25 15 0347-211 1.00 1.50 0.69 19 15 1651+391 1.00 1.50 1.01 28 10 0847-120 1.00 1.50 0.61 17 15 2008-159 1.00 1.50 0.65 18 16 2319+317 1.00 1.50 0.76 21 15 0716+714 1.00 1.50 2.13 59 7 0322+222 1.00 1.50 0.40 11 11 1308+328 1.00 1.50 1.41 39 13 1352-104 1.00 1.50 0.69 19 13 Total 9.26 256 130 =========================================================== 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 F =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A 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) Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Kk Ny Sh Wf Wz Ny 20 Ny 15 Sh 20 20 Sh 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15