Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1373 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2009.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1373 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2009-096-17:00:00 End: 2009-097-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2009096 (2009.26) ( 14928 MJD, MON. 6APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6: 0: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 2.8m 6d 41.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information Badary was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0955+476 09096-170000| 43 55 43 55 43| 1057-797 09096-170000| 43 43 | 0104-408 09096-170224| 200 200 148 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz CTA26 09097-164115| 200 200 187 | 1044+719 09097-164149| 43 43 43 43| 1124-186 09097-164337| 43 43 | 1150+497 09097-164515| 67 43 67| 1418+546 09097-164705| 98 200 95 200 192| 0506-612 09097-164734| 145 145 | 3C418 09097-165129| 43 98 43 98 94| 2113+293 09097-165343| 105 43 105 | 0537-286 09097-165409| 71 71| 1725+044 09097-165518| 58 58 58 | 2358+189 09097-165611| 200 200| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1373.skd for experiment R1373 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.6 Min = 0.0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0104-408) RMS = 11.4 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Bd=BADARY Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 18 35 33 52 34 39 53 49 39 % cal. time: 2 2 3 4 2 5 4 5 4 % slew time: 34 33 41 20 7 22 16 13 24 % idle time: 44 29 22 23 55 32 27 32 34 total # scans: 214 202 295 361 181 462 334 401 306 # scans/hour : 9 8 12 15 8 19 14 17 13 Avg scan (sec): 75 149 98 124 164 73 136 105 114 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 575 1081 1038 1606 1072 1211 1637 1518 1217 Total GB(M5): 511 960 922 1428 953 1077 1455 1349 1082 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 7.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8656.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 4 37 163 0 184 97 157 642 Ft| 38 18 89 4 92 52 297 Ho| 16 89 190 15 21 406 Ny| 2 258 185 292 934 Tc| 17 46 2 245 Ts| 132 226 1011 Wf| 224 791 Wz| 974 Number of 2-station scans: 419 Number of 3-station scans: 243 Number of 4-station scans: 132 Number of 5-station scans: 71 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 865 2650 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: BADARY 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 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: 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 1.60 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 0458+138 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1130+009 1.00 1.50 0.79 21 10 1339-287 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 0400-319 1.00 1.50 0.42 11 11 1636+473 1.00 1.50 1.62 43 9 2208-137 1.00 1.50 0.30 8 6 0747+185 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 1150+497 1.00 1.50 1.02 27 8 1725+044 1.00 1.50 0.79 21 15 3C147 1.00 1.50 2.00 53 12 Total 7.02 186 73 =========================================================== 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 FFF =========================================================== Major Options Subnet BdFtHoNyTcTsWfWz SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MinAngle 15 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 15 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 24.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 60 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Bd BADARY Mark5A Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft 20 Ft 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 15