Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1497 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: R1497 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2011-234-17:00:00 End: 2011-235-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2011234 (2011.64) ( 15796 MJD, MON. 22AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15: 2: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 5.5m 11d 43.8 =========================================================== 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 Ny On Tc Ts Wz 1909+161 11234-170000| 519 302 519 114 176| 0414-189 11234-170315| 139 139 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wz 1424-418 11235-165232| 211 211 | 0345+460 11235-165535| 219 261 190 261| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1497.skd for experiment R1497 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 13.9 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 43 58 57 51 39 42 48 % cal. time: 2 5 5 2 5 5 4 % slew time: 45 22 26 6 18 13 22 % idle time: 9 14 11 40 37 40 26 total # scans: 207 456 425 182 425 417 352 # scans/hour : 9 19 18 8 18 17 15 Avg scan (sec): 178 110 116 242 79 87 134 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1328 1805 1782 1586 1208 1305 1502 Total GB(M5): 1180 1604 1584 1410 1074 1160 1335 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8012.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Ny On Tc Ts Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Hh| 42 56 136 36 68 338 Ny| 389 14 355 367 1167 On| 19 300 384 1148 Tc| 34 22 225 Ts| 289 1014 Wz| 1130 Number of 2-station scans: 252 Number of 3-station scans: 127 Number of 4-station scans: 288 Number of 5-station scans: 15 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 682 2511 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO NYALES20 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 2205+166 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2216+178 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2106-413 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1659+399 1.00 1.50 0.56 14 8 0637-752 1.00 1.50 0.48 12 12 1738+499 1.00 1.50 1.15 29 9 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.55 39 12 1514+197 1.00 1.50 1.59 40 12 2351-154 1.00 1.50 0.44 11 9 0729+259 1.00 1.50 0.68 17 7 Total 6.45 162 69 =========================================================== 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 4 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HhNyOnTcTsWz 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 Ny NYALES20 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 Ny On Tc Ts Hh Ny On Tc Ts Ny 20 Ny 15 On 20 20 On 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