Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1699 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: R1699 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2015-216-17:00:00 End: 2015-217-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2015216 (2015.59) ( 17239 MJD, TUES 4AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:51:46 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 57.9m 17d 11.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Wettzell-North 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 Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Yg 1749+096 15216-170000| 48 49 57 43 43 43 57| 1958-179 15216-170150| 114 43 92 45 114 73| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Yg 0437-454 15217-164923| 44 212 207 212| 1418+546 15217-164935| 43 43 43 43 43 | 0800+618 15217-165139| 43 48 48 48 | 0718+793 15217-165317| 50 50 50 | 1657-261 15217-165345| 43 43 153 57 153| 0954+658 15217-165457| 43 43 43 | 1124-186 15217-165611| 43 43 43 | 1759-396 15217-165654| 135 135 | 0602+673 15217-165748| 105 110 110 110 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1699.skd for experiment R1699 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.2 Min = 0.0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Ny-Wn on 0458-020) RMS = 13.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ht=HART15M Ho=HOBART26 Ke=KATH12M Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Ww=WARK12M Wn=WETTZ13N Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ht Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 47 33 53 52 42 45 50 48 53 47 % cal. time: 5 5 4 6 6 4 6 6 4 5 % slew time: 21 50 11 23 37 10 4 16 12 21 % idle time: 26 11 30 18 14 40 38 29 30 27 total # scans: 429 439 364 520 496 330 561 545 365 449 # scans/hour : 18 18 15 22 21 14 23 23 15 19 Avg scan (sec): 94 65 127 86 73 119 77 76 126 93 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TBytes: 1.5 1.0 1.7 1.6 1.3 1.4 1.6 1.5 1.7 1.5 Total TB(M5): 1.3 0.9 1.5 1.4 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ht Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Yg Total ------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 168 127 181 169 98 251 233 161 1388 Ho| 256 28 196 283 35 37 258 1261 Ke| 45 183 227 62 60 298 1258 Ny| 308 3 481 465 25 1536 Sh| 110 295 285 150 1696 Ww| 2 1 227 951 Wn| 515 49 1690 Wz| 46 1642 Yg| 1214 Number of 2-station scans: 213 Number of 3-station scans: 290 Number of 4-station scans: 309 Number of 5-station scans: 196 Number of 6-station scans: 70 Number of 7-station scans: 11 Number of 8-station scans: 5 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1094 Total number of obs: 6318 Total integrated obs-time: 498936 Average obs-time: 79.0 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: | 2542| 923| 523| 397| 426| 457| 190| 236| 148| 130| 90| 66| 56| 51| 35| 21| 2| 25 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ht| 44 30 34 52 26 36 47 29 38 Ho| 40 29 59 40 31 40 37 42 Ke| 35 51 29 27 38 29 35 Ny| 55 21 45 60 29 49 Sh| 37 46 61 42 52 Ww| 23 22 26 32 Wn| 61 23 47 Wz| 31 57 Yg| 32 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ht| 35 19 18 25 21 26 24 22 24 Ho| 25 18 33 26 28 25 27 28 Ke| 16 21 16 18 16 17 19 Ny| 21 16 24 23 16 22 Sh| 18 24 22 20 23 Ww| 15 15 17 20 Wn| 32 20 26 Wz| 19 25 Yg| 20 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HART15M KATH12M NYALES20 SESHAN25 WARK12M WETTZ13N 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: HOBART26 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 1325-558 1.00 1.50 0.05 3 3 1147+245 1.00 1.50 1.76 111 19 0954+658 1.00 1.50 1.57 99 15 0747+185 1.00 1.50 0.09 6 1 0306+102 1.00 1.50 0.66 42 4 1424+240 1.00 1.50 1.22 77 11 1615+029 1.00 1.50 0.33 21 7 2236-572 1.00 1.50 0.30 19 15 0534-340 1.00 1.50 0.30 19 9 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.30 82 18 Total 7.58 479 102 =========================================================== 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 HtHoKeNyShWwWnWzYg 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Ny NYALES20 Mark5B Sh SESHAN25 Mark5B Ww WARK12M Mark5B Wn WETTZ13N 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) Ht Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Ht Ho Ke Ny Sh Ww Wn Wz Ho 20 Ho 15 Ke 20 20 Ke 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 15 Ww 20 20 20 20 20 Ww 15 15 15 15 15 Wn 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wn 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15