Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1410 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: R1410 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2009-355-17:00:00 End: 2009-356-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2009355 (2009.97) ( 15187 MJD, MON. 21DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23: 1: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 59.8m -23d 26.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz Zc 1611+343 09355-170000| 70 172 172 110 67 | 1418+546 09355-170340| 57 99 78 99 48 | 1519-273 09355-170612| 117 117 | 0014+813 09355-170626| 43 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz Zc 1351-018 09356-165050| 155 155 | 3C418 09356-165055| 75 75 71 43| 0059+581 09356-165435| 43 43 43 43 43 43| 0716+714 09356-165638| 74 117 96 117 65 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1410.skd for experiment R1410 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Sh-Tc on 0727-115) RMS = 14.9 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 39 48 30 25 49 35 13 34 % cal. time: 6 6 4 2 5 6 3 4 % slew time: 28 33 31 5 21 16 40 25 % idle time: 26 12 34 67 24 42 43 36 total # scans: 499 495 352 158 450 482 244 382 # scans/hour : 21 21 15 7 19 20 10 16 Avg scan (sec): 68 83 74 136 94 63 47 80 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1213 1486 935 774 1517 1095 416 1062 Total GB(M5): 1078 1321 831 688 1349 973 370 944 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 7.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6609.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ny| 449 325 44 330 421 220 1789 On| 308 43 328 448 226 1802 Sh| 2 183 298 177 1293 Tc| 143 56 17 305 Wf| 304 151 1439 Wz| 221 1748 Zc| 1012 Number of 2-station scans: 129 Number of 3-station scans: 80 Number of 4-station scans: 165 Number of 5-station scans: 188 Number of 6-station scans: 97 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 659 4694 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC 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 0039+230 1.00 1.50 0.55 26 6 1746+470 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1424+366 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0400-319 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1615+029 1.00 1.50 0.06 3 1 0400+258 1.00 1.50 1.70 80 10 1448+762 1.00 1.50 0.51 24 5 0710+439 1.00 1.50 0.32 15 8 1040+244 1.00 1.50 1.02 48 9 2141+175 1.00 1.50 1.43 67 11 Total 5.60 263 50 =========================================================== 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 NyOnShTcWfWzZc 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz Ny On Sh Tc Wf Wz On 20 On 15 Sh 20 20 Sh 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 Zc 20 20 20 15 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 12 15 15