Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1496 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2011.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1496 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2011-228-17:00:00 End: 2011-229-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2011228 (2011.62) ( 15790 MJD, TUES 16AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 14:38: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 9h 43.3m 13d 41.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Katherine 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 Hh Hb Ho Ke On Tc Ts Wz 0059+581 11228-170000| 43 43 43| 1057-797 11228-170000| 43 118 118 78 | .. .. 2255-282 11228-173324| 102 43 102 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Ke On Tc Ts Wz 2255-282 11229-164352| 85 43 85 | 1622-253 11229-164539| 44 44 43| 0035-252 11229-164556| 98 98 | 0955+476 11229-164753| 43 43| 0648-165 11229-164827| 165 165 | 0529+483 11229-164930| 129 63 129| 1954-388 11229-164935| 97 97 | 0446+112 11229-165206| 87 87 | 0048-427 11229-165430| 43 43 | 1546+027 11229-165451| 72 72 43| 0347-211 11229-165558| 139 139 | 3C371 11229-165736| 70 70| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1496.skd for experiment R1496 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.6 Min = 0.0 Max = 80.0 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0648-165) RMS = 11.7 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Ke=KATH12M On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Hh Hb Ho Ke On Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 33 28 39 3 48 46 42 43 35 % cal. time: 3 3 3 1 5 3 6 5 4 % slew time: 51 9 39 0 31 8 25 15 23 % idle time: 13 59 17 95 15 43 25 36 39 total # scans: 239 258 262 45 448 229 555 456 311 # scans/hour : 10 11 11 2 19 10 23 19 13 Avg scan (sec): 119 93 130 52 92 172 65 81 99 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1026 867 1225 84 1480 1416 1305 1325 1091 Total GB(M5): 912 771 1089 75 1316 1259 1160 1178 970 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 8.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7758.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Hb Ho Ke On Tc Ts Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Hh| 67 83 15 57 99 52 79 452 Hb| 79 35 4 61 157 5 408 Ho| 34 4 159 83 15 457 Ke| 0 5 23 0 112 On| 18 306 404 793 Tc| 11 15 368 Ts| 309 941 Wz| 827 Number of 2-station scans: 480 Number of 3-station scans: 411 Number of 4-station scans: 66 Number of 5-station scans: 7 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 964 2179 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO HOBART12 HOBART26 KATH12M ONSALA60 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WETTZELL 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 1420-679 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1657-562 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0530-727 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2142-758 1.00 1.50 0.14 3 3 0347-211 1.00 1.50 0.73 16 12 0239+175 1.00 1.50 0.09 2 2 2232-488 1.00 1.50 0.18 4 4 1954+513 1.00 1.50 1.47 32 14 1342+663 1.00 1.50 1.42 31 11 1406-076 1.00 1.50 1.19 26 15 Total 5.23 114 61 =========================================================== 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 2.00 6 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HhHbHoKeOnTcTsWz SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ke KATH12M Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Hh Hb Ho Ke On Tc Ts Hh Hb Ho Ke On Tc Ts Hb 20 Hb 15 Ho 20 99 Ho 15 99 Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15