Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1378 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: R1378 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2009-131-17:00:00 End: 2009-132-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2009131 (2009.36) ( 14963 MJD, MON. 11MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 8:18: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 3h 14.8m 18d 2.4 =========================================================== 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 1057-797 09131-170000| 43 43 | 1803+784 09131-170000| 43 43 43 43 43| 1923+210 09131-170151| 43 43 | 0727-115 09131-170219| 45 45 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 2052-474 09132-165206| 200 200 | 0716+714 09132-165237| 43 43| 0016+731 09132-165400| 43 48 48| 0552+398 09132-165555| 108 108 43 43| 1300+580 09132-165728| 74 74 74 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1378.skd for experiment R1378 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 97.4 (Baseline Ny-Wz on CTA26 ) RMS = 14.6 Total time: 1439 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: 15 35 32 48 52 35 50 39 38 % cal. time: 3 2 4 6 4 7 5 5 5 % slew time: 40 34 47 28 13 27 21 17 29 % idle time: 41 28 16 17 31 30 23 38 28 total # scans: 251 212 359 481 316 578 442 473 389 # scans/hour : 10 9 15 20 13 24 18 20 16 Avg scan (sec): 53 142 76 86 141 53 98 70 89 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 480 1084 987 1493 1608 1101 1558 1198 1189 Total GB(M5): 427 963 877 1327 1429 978 1385 1065 1056 # 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: 8451.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 14 60 190 0 221 117 183 785 Ft| 14 55 160 12 138 61 454 Ho| 25 131 244 15 29 518 Ny| 24 324 291 406 1315 Tc| 22 136 21 494 Ts| 200 301 1324 Wf| 273 1170 Wz| 1274 Number of 2-station scans: 430 Number of 3-station scans: 311 Number of 4-station scans: 179 Number of 5-station scans: 111 Number of 6-station scans: 8 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1039 3667 =========================================================== 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 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 =========================================================== No Monitoring Sources were scheduled during this session because there is a problem with MySQL. =========================================================== 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