Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1595 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2013.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1595 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2013-203-17:00:00 End: 2013-204-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2013203 (2013.56) ( 16496 MJD, MON. 22JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13: 2: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 8.9m 20d 8.4 =========================================================== There are no observations for Ny Alesund from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Ny Alesund will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Ys 0537-441 13203-170000| 44 44 | 1749+096 13203-170000| 106 124 188 188 90| CTA26 13203-170000| 135 135 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Ys 1639-062 13204-164943| 92 270 270 89| 1908-201 13204-165327| 367 367 | 1324+224 13204-165420| 43 45 45| 1334-127 13204-165739| 109 109 | 0955+476 13204-165755| 121 117 121| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1595.skd for experiment R1595 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 4.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 65.0 (Baseline Ny-Ys on CTA26 ) RMS = 10.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ww=WARK12M Wf=WESTFORD Yg=YARRA12M Ys=YEBES40M Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Ys Avg % obs. time: 41 65 67 49 43 56 57 58 49 54 % cal. time: 2 3 3 4 2 2 4 3 4 3 % slew time: 43 9 9 17 2 7 16 8 31 16 % idle time: 12 21 20 29 52 34 22 31 15 27 total # scans: 209 279 257 309 145 189 347 227 342 256 # scans/hour : 9 12 11 13 6 8 14 9 14 11 Avg scan (sec): 171 202 225 138 256 256 141 219 123 191 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TBytes: 1.3 2.0 2.1 1.5 1.3 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.5 1.7 Total TB(M5): 1.1 1.8 1.9 1.4 1.2 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.3 1.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Ys Total ------------------------------------------------------- Hh| 41 43 37 63 17 54 57 110 422 Hb| 210 13 14 168 4 166 4 620 Ke| 15 2 129 4 193 6 602 Ny| 14 11 246 7 235 578 Tc| 12 82 0 47 234 Ww| 6 91 0 434 Wf| 0 236 632 Yg| 12 526 Ys| 650 Number of 2-station scans: 339 Number of 3-station scans: 326 Number of 4-station scans: 132 Number of 5-station scans: 24 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 821 2349 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Ys AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Hh| 36 38 33 23 27 34 33 115 54 Hb| 37 35 25 37 28 30 41 35 Ke| 39 17 35 28 36 52 37 Ny| 22 31 45 23 126 76 Tc| 29 17 - 53 27 Ww| 23 31 - 34 Wf| - 95 59 Yg| 39 33 Ys| 105 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Ys AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Hh| 32 26 17 17 45 33 29 26 27 Hb| 23 19 13 21 23 23 19 22 Ke| 17 12 19 20 22 16 22 Ny| 12 15 17 17 17 17 Tc| 14 15 - 12 15 Ww| 15 22 - 21 Wf| - 22 20 Yg| 16 23 Ys| 20 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO HOBART12 KATH12M NYALES20 TIGOCONC WARK12M WESTFORD YARRA12M YEBES40M Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:1 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 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 1428+370 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 1824-582 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0107-610 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1424+366 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 2353-686 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 1049+215 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1143-696 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 0.13 3 3 =========================================================== Minor Options Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 2.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HhHbKeNyTcWwWfYgYs 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 =========================================================== Weighted Station 5 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Hh HARTRAO Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Ny NYALES20 Mark5B Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ww WARK12M Mark5B Wf WESTFORD Mark5B Yg YARRA12M Mark5B Ys YEBES40M Mark5B =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Hh Hb Ke Ny Tc Ww Wf Yg Hb 20 Hb 15 Ke 20 20 Ke 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Ww 20 20 20 20 15 Ww 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 Ys 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 15