Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1689 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: R1689 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2015-146-17:00:00 End: 2015-147-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2015146 (2015.40) ( 17169 MJD, TUES 26MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 09:15:47 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 4h 12.8m 21d 9.2 =========================================================== 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 Ft Ht Hb Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Yg 1308+328 15146-170000| 194 91 185 159 194 43 83 | 1424-418 15146-170000| 43 43 43| 1147+245 15146-170120| 94 94 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Hb Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Yg 0332-403 15147-165526| 245 245 | 0212+735 15147-165652| 43 43 43 | 1717+178 15147-165656| 161 161 53 | 1057-797 15147-165727| 151 151 | 2126-158 15147-165851| 53 53| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1689.skd for experiment R1689 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.2 Min = 0.0 Max = 84.7 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0648-165) RMS = 11.6 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Yj=RAEGYEB Kv=SEJONG Ts=TSUKUB32 Ww=WARK12M Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ht Hb Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 29 56 61 54 51 49 39 48 43 45 49 48 % cal. time: 3 5 4 5 4 5 4 7 3 5 4 4 % slew time: 34 23 13 24 26 5 6 26 9 15 10 18 % idle time: 34 15 21 16 18 40 50 18 44 35 36 30 total # scans: 221 405 361 430 377 408 322 601 255 426 311 374 # scans/hour : 9 17 15 18 16 17 13 25 11 18 13 16 Avg scan (sec): 112 119 145 108 117 105 105 69 147 91 135 113 # 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 1.5 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.1 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ht Hb Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Yg Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 165 2 50 54 96 6 25 0 79 1 478 Ht| 62 90 103 176 20 68 14 143 89 930 Hb| 12 7 9 44 75 196 8 193 608 Ny| 299 257 114 292 1 325 12 1452 On| 271 98 202 0 313 13 1360 Yj| 86 187 0 305 26 1413 Kv| 266 23 86 54 797 Ts| 43 232 74 1464 Ww| 0 109 386 Wz| 13 1504 Yg| 584 Number of 2-station scans: 645 Number of 3-station scans: 286 Number of 4-station scans: 150 Number of 5-station scans: 160 Number of 6-station scans: 78 Number of 7-station scans: 11 Number of 8-station scans: 3 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1333 Total number of obs: 5488 Total integrated obs-time: 506756 Average obs-time: 92.3 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180 195 210 225 240 255 270 285 300 #Obs: | 1766| 706| 650| 450| 339| 195| 222| 198| 165| 167| 123| 134| 75| 70| 50| 55| 39| 84 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Yg AVG ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 31 41 33 30 33 27 41 - 37 32 33 Ht| 31 37 32 41 26 40 28 47 30 37 Hb| 36 35 20 37 47 39 33 40 39 Ny| 46 48 37 80 21 67 33 56 On| 41 32 56 - 52 29 45 Yj| 26 55 - 59 20 46 Kv| 60 30 40 32 42 Ts| 39 84 46 63 Ww| - 30 35 Wz| 33 60 Yg| 35 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Yg AVG ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 20 15 15 15 17 16 18 - 17 15 18 Ht| 19 18 19 26 17 24 17 24 22 22 Hb| 15 15 16 15 20 16 16 19 18 Ny| 22 24 17 37 15 29 17 26 On| 23 15 28 - 25 16 23 Yj| 13 28 - 29 15 24 Kv| 32 15 17 16 21 Ts| 22 37 23 31 Ww| - 15 16 Wz| 17 27 Yg| 18 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode for: FORTLEZA ONSALA60 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 NYALES20 RAEGYEB SEJONG TSUKUB32 WARK12M 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 0212+735 1.00 1.50 1.51 83 8 2144+092 1.00 1.50 0.38 21 14 0954+658 1.00 1.50 1.69 93 8 1147+245 1.00 1.50 1.66 91 20 0306+102 1.00 1.50 1.04 57 13 1717+178 1.00 1.50 0.97 53 18 1954+513 1.00 1.50 1.48 81 14 0747+185 1.00 1.50 0.09 5 5 2351-154 1.00 1.50 0.78 43 20 1443-162 1.00 1.50 0.04 2 2 Total 9.64 529 122 =========================================================== 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 FtHtHbNyOnYjKvTsWwWzYg 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5B On ONSALA60 Mark5B Yj RAEGYEB Mark5B Kv SEJONG K5 Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Ww WARK12M Mark5B 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 Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Ft Ht Hb Ny On Yj Kv Ts Ww Wz Ht 20 Ht 15 Hb 20 20 Hb 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 On 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 Ww 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ww 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