Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1687 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: R1687 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2015-131-17:00:00 End: 2015-132-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2015131 (2015.36) ( 17154 MJD, MON. 11MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 08:16:38 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 3h 13.0m 17d 55.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information The Yebes 13.2m antenna was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg 1741-038 15131-170000| 218 43 51 218 43 93| OJ287 15131-170000| 51 43 51 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg 1057-797 15132-165338| 65 65 | 1849+670 15132-165459| 252 65 124 221 252 43 156 | 0530-727 15132-165519| 185 185| 1741-038 15132-165720| 43 43 43 | 0134+311 15132-165814| 94 94 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1687.skd for experiment R1687 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1243-160) RMS = 12.3 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Yj=RAEGYEB Kv=SEJONG Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 29 51 61 57 45 54 51 48 40 49 55 49 % cal. time: 3 5 4 4 5 5 5 4 7 5 4 4 % slew time: 37 23 10 11 25 22 4 7 28 12 11 18 % idle time: 30 20 24 27 24 18 40 40 24 33 30 29 total # scans: 241 413 317 327 407 426 389 351 603 404 323 381 # scans/hour : 10 17 13 14 17 18 16 15 25 17 13 16 Avg scan (sec): 105 108 167 152 96 109 112 119 57 104 147 115 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TB(M5): 0.8 1.4 1.7 1.6 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.1 1.3 1.5 1.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 152 4 2 57 57 105 4 24 69 4 478 Ht| 108 93 0 68 118 42 93 85 135 894 Hb| 234 73 14 5 80 108 5 206 837 Ke| 91 50 27 108 135 36 231 1007 Kk| 236 156 167 306 197 61 1344 Ny| 286 153 306 345 29 1544 Yj| 113 221 303 30 1364 Kv| 300 131 86 1184 Ts| 265 107 1865 Wz| 30 1466 Yg| 919 Number of 2-station scans: 464 Number of 3-station scans: 279 Number of 4-station scans: 172 Number of 5-station scans: 154 Number of 6-station scans: 128 Number of 7-station scans: 22 Number of 8-station scans: 7 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1226 Total number of obs: 6451 Total integrated obs-time: 589176 Average obs-time: 91.3 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 #Obs: | 3136| 617| 581| 354| 373| 406| 370| 222| 67| 105| 98| 41| 28| 18| 13| 22 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg AVG ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 30 40 41 25 45 36 33 52 45 35 36 Ht| 32 28 - 47 50 24 48 53 31 38 Hb| 40 25 53 50 36 68 115 38 41 Ke| 25 45 34 34 77 51 34 41 Kk| 53 37 32 83 48 21 49 Ny| 78 55 107 105 42 79 Yj| 36 66 103 33 66 Kv| 113 53 26 58 Ts| 100 52 87 Wz| 55 83 Yg| 36 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Yg AVG ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 17 15 15 19 17 16 16 18 18 15 17 Ht| 18 19 - 25 26 19 35 27 21 23 Hb| 17 26 19 12 18 32 17 18 20 Ke| 27 18 15 17 37 16 19 21 Kk| 29 23 22 54 28 27 32 Ny| 23 17 35 27 19 26 Yj| 13 26 30 16 24 Kv| 39 16 18 23 Ts| 34 36 37 Wz| 19 27 Yg| 21 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode for: FORTLEZA 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 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 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 for: HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE 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 8.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 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 2319+444 1.00 1.50 0.09 6 6 1339-287 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1637+574 1.00 1.50 2.06 133 21 1252+119 1.00 1.50 0.98 63 16 1511-100 1.00 1.50 0.81 52 21 0534-340 1.00 1.50 0.14 9 9 0723+219 1.00 1.50 0.81 52 19 0342+147 1.00 1.50 0.08 5 3 1030+074 1.00 1.50 0.14 9 7 2325+093 1.00 1.50 0.50 32 11 Total 5.60 361 113 =========================================================== 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 FtHtHbKeKkNyYjKvTsWzYg 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ht HART15M Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Kk KOKEE 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) Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ts Wz Ht 20 Ht 15 Hb 20 20 Hb 15 15 Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15 Yj 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yj 15 15 15 15 15 15 Kv 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Kv 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15