Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1680 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2014.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1680 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2015-082-17:00:00 End: 2015-083-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2015082 (2015.22) ( 17105 MJD, MON. 23MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 05:03:27 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 0h 10.1m 1d 5.5 =========================================================== Important Station Information The Yebes 13.2m antenna 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 Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg 0834-201 15082-170000| 43 43 43 | 1156+295 15082-170000| 350 350 255 265 43 220 322| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg 0537-441 15083-164547| 43 43| 0059+581 15083-164710| 52 43 49 52 43 43 | 1104-445 15083-164734| 320 294 320| 2229+695 15083-164852| 73 73 72 43 50 | 1929+226 15083-165025| 144 144 | 0800+618 15083-165202| 89 89 89 43 | 1749+096 15083-165401| 156 91 156 43 106| 0955+476 15083-165428| 82 82 82 58 | 1502+036 15083-165713| 105 105 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1680.skd for experiment R1680 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 60.0 (Baseline Hb-Yj on 0834-201) RMS = 12.6 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Yj=RAEGYEB Kv=SEJONG Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 46 58 58 53 51 49 41 44 41 60 50 % cal. time: 4 4 4 5 5 5 3 6 5 4 4 % slew time: 20 10 11 31 23 4 6 25 13 11 16 % idle time: 29 27 26 11 20 41 48 24 39 24 29 total # scans: 348 329 344 410 412 399 298 539 433 354 386 # scans/hour : 15 14 14 17 17 17 12 22 18 15 16 Avg scan (sec): 115 152 146 111 108 106 118 71 82 147 115 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TBytes: 1.4 1.8 1.8 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.4 1.3 1.9 1.6 Total TB(M5): 1.3 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.7 1.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg Total ------------------------------------------------------------ Ht| 95 93 184 105 167 36 74 170 129 1053 Hb| 231 6 11 5 63 106 5 262 784 Ke| 23 36 20 103 132 24 266 928 Ma| 291 342 70 178 366 20 1480 Ny| 289 103 255 329 22 1441 Yj| 70 177 345 21 1436 Kv| 258 73 80 856 Ts| 199 89 1468 Wz| 19 1530 Yg| 908 Number of 2-station scans: 361 Number of 3-station scans: 240 Number of 4-station scans: 229 Number of 5-station scans: 176 Number of 6-station scans: 70 Number of 7-station scans: 20 Number of 8-station scans: 5 Number of 9-station scans: 2 Number of 10-station scans: 1 Total number of scans: 1104 Total number of obs: 5942 Total integrated obs-time: 559624 Average obs-time: 94.2 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 #Obs: | 2696| 673| 589| 393| 375| 407| 177| 153| 127| 40| 84| 53| 75| 49| 34| 17Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg AVG ----------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 43 40 42 36 41 38 64 50 40 43 Hb| 42 32 33 19 36 56 33 40 42 Ke| 48 41 40 37 91 50 38 47 Ma| 56 60 46 64 78 34 61 Ny| 53 54 86 75 30 63 Yj| 37 56 77 27 58 Kv| 86 55 30 55 Ts| 88 63 76 Wz| 36 73 Yg| 40 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg AVG ----------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 18 18 20 20 24 17 32 23 23 22 Hb| 17 15 16 12 15 24 15 19 19 Ke| 15 16 14 15 34 16 19 20 Ma| 21 26 16 25 28 16 24 Ny| 23 20 34 26 17 25 Yj| 14 26 31 14 25 Kv| 43 19 15 24 Ts| 32 29 32 Wz| 17 28 Yg| 20 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M MATERA NYALES20 RAEGYEB SEJONG TSUKUB32 YARRA12M Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel Mk341:1 256 Mbits 128 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 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.00 6.00 16.00 Recording mode setup for: WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256 Mbits 128 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 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.00 6.00 16.00 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1424+366 1.00 1.50 0.07 4 4 1519-294 1.00 1.50 0.03 2 2 0747+185 1.00 1.50 0.61 36 12 2358+189 1.00 1.50 0.05 3 3 0306+102 1.00 1.50 1.51 90 17 1145-071 1.00 1.50 0.77 46 19 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.18 70 17 OK290 1.00 1.50 1.41 84 25 0442+389 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2220-351 1.00 1.50 0.10 6 4 Total 5.74 341 103 =========================================================== 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 HtHbKeMaNyYjKvTsWzYg SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180.00 MinAngle 15.00 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 4.00 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 4.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 60 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Weighted Station =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ht HART15M Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Ma MATERA Mark5B Ny NYALES20 Mark5B Yj RAEGYEB Mark5B Kv SEJONG K5 Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Yg YARRA12M Mark5B =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) X-band (ast_margin 0) S-band (ast_margin 0) Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Hb 20 Hb 15 Ke 20 20 Ke 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 Yj 20 20 20 20 20 Yj 15 15 15 15 15 Kv 20 20 20 20 20 20 Kv 15 15 15 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15