Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1388 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: R1388 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2009-202-17:00:00 End: 2009-203-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2009202 (2009.55) ( 15034 MJD, TUES 21JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12:58: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 4.8m 20d 20.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information Tigo's X-band SEFD was changed from 12,000 to 20,000 based on SNRANAL results. =========================================================== 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 Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz 0059+581 09202-170000| 99 99 43 50 58| 1057-797 09202-170000| 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz 0308-611 09203-165110| 126 139 139 | 4C39.25 09203-165133| 43 43 43| 1128+385 09203-165306| 51 51 43| 0642+449 09203-165509| 43 43 43 43| 2008-159 09203-165544| 43 43 | 1124-186 09203-165732| 62 62 43| 2127-096 09203-165802| 64 64 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1388.skd for experiment R1388 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 84.7 (Baseline Wf-Wz on 0537-286) RMS = 15.7 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 31 41 43 31 34 43 38 37 % cal. time: 4 6 5 3 7 5 6 5 % slew time: 47 26 35 8 27 21 15 26 % idle time: 17 26 17 58 31 30 40 32 total # scans: 359 481 448 229 577 449 497 434 # scans/hour : 15 20 19 10 24 19 21 18 Avg scan (sec): 75 74 82 115 51 82 65 77 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 974 1273 1322 948 1062 1328 1170 1154 Total GB(M5): 865 1132 1175 843 944 1181 1040 1026 # 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: 7179.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 173 25 117 205 19 24 563 Kk| 116 78 325 226 170 1088 Ma| 32 232 248 396 1049 Tc| 15 90 39 371 Ts| 222 281 1280 Wf| 274 1079 Wz| 1184 Number of 2-station scans: 486 Number of 3-station scans: 309 Number of 4-station scans: 194 Number of 5-station scans: 73 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1062 3307 =========================================================== 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 MATERA 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0206+136 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 1100+122 1.00 1.50 0.06 2 2 1339-287 1.00 1.50 0.09 3 3 0636+680 1.00 1.50 0.39 13 13 1821+107 1.00 1.50 1.84 61 21 0657+172 1.00 1.50 1.87 62 26 1435+638 1.00 1.50 1.78 59 16 0826-373 1.00 1.50 1.27 42 18 0220-349 1.00 1.50 0.45 15 11 2243+047 1.00 1.50 0.73 24 10 Total 8.53 282 121 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF FF =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HoKkMaTcTsWfWz 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ma MATERA 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 0) S-band (margin 0) Ho Kk Ma Tc Ts Wf Ho Kk Ma Tc Ts Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15