Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1404 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: R1404 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2009-313-17:00:00 End: 2009-314-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2009313 (2009.86) ( 15145 MJD, MON. 9NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20:15: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 59.8m -17d 1.9 =========================================================== 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 Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz 0229+131 09313-170000| 43 45 43 43 45| 0059+581 09313-170136| 43 43| 3C274 09313-170221| 144 144 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz 0308-611 09314-165552| 105 105 | 2214+350 09314-165800| 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1404.skd for experiment R1404 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.6 Min = 0.0 Max = 70.2 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0727-115) RMS = 15.7 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Bd=BADARY Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Bd Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 15 38 53 37 39 46 38 % cal. time: 3 4 7 3 7 6 5 % slew time: 40 44 28 8 26 15 27 % idle time: 42 13 11 51 27 32 30 total # scans: 251 322 592 233 624 523 424 # scans/hour : 10 13 25 10 26 22 18 Avg scan (sec): 51 102 78 137 54 76 82 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 457 1178 1652 1150 1208 1437 1180 Total GB(M5): 406 1047 1468 1022 1074 1277 1049 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 5.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6294.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ho Ny Tc Ts Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Bd| 51 233 0 238 201 723 Ho| 60 159 170 34 474 Ny| 45 496 487 1321 Tc| 18 59 281 Ts| 412 1334 Wz| 1193 Number of 2-station scans: 363 Number of 3-station scans: 314 Number of 4-station scans: 198 Number of 5-station scans: 17 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 892 2663 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: BADARY NYALES20 TIGOCONC 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: 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0426+273 1.00 1.50 0.49 13 7 1100+122 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 0010+405 1.00 1.50 0.30 8 8 1342+663 1.00 1.50 2.37 63 12 0729+259 1.00 1.50 0.79 21 5 1929+226 1.00 1.50 0.56 15 8 0834-201 1.00 1.50 0.19 5 5 0414-189 1.00 1.50 0.64 17 13 2143-156 1.00 1.50 0.49 13 13 1705+018 1.00 1.50 0.90 24 13 Total 6.76 180 85 =========================================================== 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 F =========================================================== Major Options Subnet BdHoNyTcTsWz 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Bd Ho Ny Tc Ts Bd Ho Ny Tc Ts Ho 20 Ho 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15