Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1505 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: R1505 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2011-306-17:00:00 End: 2011-307-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2011306 (2011.84) ( 15868 MJD, WED. 2NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:46: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 30.0m -14d 47.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Warkworth was scheduled as a regular station because no observations were scheduled when tagged along since there are no Auscope antennas in the network. =========================================================== 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 Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz 0716+714 11306-170000| 43 43 43 43 43| 2052-474 11306-170000| 229 229 | 1324+224 11306-170149| 43 43 43| 0537-441 11306-170304| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz 1749+096 11307-165043| 46 46 43 43| 0925-203 11307-165116| 43 43 | 1617+229 11307-165207| 137 137 103| 0332-403 11307-165255| 68 68 | 1324+224 11307-165426| 148 148| 0406-127 11307-165443| 101 101 | 3C274 11307-165522| 60 60 | 0215+015 11307-165708| 71 71 | 2113+293 11307-165757| 58 58 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1505.skd for experiment R1505 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 13.3 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Ww=WARK12M Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 39 43 52 46 43 18 52 45 42 % cal. time: 3 4 6 3 7 2 5 5 4 % slew time: 40 23 26 5 27 6 20 15 21 % idle time: 17 28 15 45 22 74 23 34 33 total # scans: 241 348 494 229 592 151 421 460 367 # scans/hour : 10 15 21 10 25 6 18 19 15 Avg scan (sec): 140 108 92 174 62 101 107 84 108 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1215 1351 1628 1435 1324 547 1614 1399 1314 Total GB(M5): 1080 1201 1447 1276 1177 486 1435 1243 1168 # 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: 9346.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 36 54 158 20 5 111 71 455 Kk| 153 80 237 38 151 119 814 Ny| 5 359 1 299 396 1267 Tc| 20 19 65 15 362 Ts| 126 211 289 1262 Ww| 7 1 197 Wf| 281 1125 Wz| 1172 Number of 2-station scans: 482 Number of 3-station scans: 256 Number of 4-station scans: 182 Number of 5-station scans: 82 Number of 6-station scans: 11 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1013 3327 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WARK12M WESTFORD 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 1215+303 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1013+127 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 1849+670 1.00 1.50 1.53 51 9 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.53 51 19 1130+009 1.00 1.50 0.15 5 3 0426+273 1.00 1.50 1.29 43 14 2351-154 1.00 1.50 0.33 11 11 0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.53 51 11 1424+366 1.00 1.50 0.42 14 6 0054+161 1.00 1.50 0.51 17 6 Total 7.33 244 80 =========================================================== 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 FtKkNyTcTsWwWfWz 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Ww WARK12M Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Ft Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Kk 20 Kk 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 Ww 20 20 20 15 20 Ww 15 15 15 12 15 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15 15