Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1702 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: R1702 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2015-236-17:00:00 End: 2015-237-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2015236 (2015.65) ( 17259 MJD, MON. 24AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15:10:37 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 13.0m 11d 2.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Yebes-13.2m 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 On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ys 0537-441 15236-170000| 43 43 43 43 | 1751+288 15236-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Ho Ke Ny On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ys 1806+456 15237-165447| 136 150 150 150 143 49 107 149| 0454-234 15237-165652| 43 43 43 43 | 3C345 15237-165813| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1702.skd for experiment R1702 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 2880.0 (Baseline Ht-Ny on 3C446 ) RMS = 94.6 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ht=HART15M Ho=HOBART26 Ke=KATH12M Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Yj=RAEGYEB Sh=SESHAN25 Ts=TSUKUB32 Ww=WARK12M Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ys=YEBES40M Ht Ho Ke Ny On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ys Avg % obs. time: 44 34 45 48 49 51 45 33 38 40 43 47 43 % cal. time: 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 4 5 5 5 5 % slew time: 19 51 13 21 26 4 32 22 12 12 13 32 22 % idle time: 32 9 37 26 18 38 16 38 45 41 39 14 30 total # scans: 381 434 407 436 448 460 458 532 367 466 402 464 437 # scans/hour : 16 18 17 18 19 19 19 22 15 19 17 19 18 Avg scan (sec): 99 67 95 94 95 96 85 53 89 74 92 88 85 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TBytes: 1.4 1.1 1.4 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.4 1.0 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.5 1.3 Total TB(M5): 1.2 0.9 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.2 0.9 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ht Ho Ke Ny On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ys Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 123 106 128 164 196 142 125 75 174 140 196 1569 Ho| 251 33 13 10 143 164 285 20 239 10 1291 Ke| 47 40 44 147 168 224 42 311 35 1415 Ny| 345 319 269 287 14 349 38 347 2176 On| 360 219 219 3 384 36 379 2162 Yj| 221 215 0 379 48 408 2200 Sh| 399 88 250 124 237 2239 Ts| 120 243 140 225 2305 Ww| 1 218 0 1028 Wz| 41 401 2284 Yg| 34 1369 Ys| 2272 Number of 2-station scans: 310 Number of 3-station scans: 223 Number of 4-station scans: 175 Number of 5-station scans: 158 Number of 6-station scans: 131 Number of 7-station scans: 147 Number of 8-station scans: 54 Number of 9-station scans: 12 Number of 10-station scans: 11 Number of 11-station scans: 1 Number of 12-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1222 Total number of obs: 11155 Total integrated obs-time: 839080 Average obs-time: 75.2 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: | 6044| 1028| 623| 770| 449| 432| 321| 309| 257| 167| 108| 123| 169| 182| 46| 43| 49| 35 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Ho Ke Ny On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ys AVG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 48 33 35 35 44 55 58 27 57 37 106 52 Ho| 59 37 28 26 74 107 63 38 58 55 65 Ke| 32 31 26 65 86 35 36 38 70 49 Ny| 60 56 76 96 29 81 26 145 80 On| 50 57 70 30 78 27 131 71 Yj| 56 67 - 87 23 163 79 Sh| 204 49 82 54 147 99 Ts| 70 107 68 180 114 Ww| 35 31 - 46 Wz| 34 215 104 Yg| 62 44 Ys| 156 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Ho Ke Ny On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ys AVG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 42 20 23 23 30 28 37 21 33 25 30 29 Ho| 35 26 22 21 42 68 39 29 40 21 42 Ke| 17 16 16 27 42 19 19 21 16 26 Ny| 23 25 25 39 17 30 18 26 27 On| 23 19 29 16 31 17 24 25 Yj| 21 29 - 38 17 35 29 Sh| 72 24 26 27 22 34 Ts| 38 39 39 31 44 Ww| 16 19 - 27 Wz| 23 38 33 Yg| 18 27 Ys| 30 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HART15M KATH12M NYALES20 RAEGYEB SESHAN25 TSUKUB32 WARK12M YARRA12M YEBES40M 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 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 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 3C345 1.00 1.50 0.54 60 26 0834+250 1.00 1.50 0.91 102 10 3C454.3 1.00 1.50 0.35 39 19 3C120 1.00 1.50 0.36 40 8 0111+021 1.00 1.50 0.23 26 4 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.63 182 14 1255-177 1.00 1.50 0.02 2 2 1659-621 1.00 1.50 0.21 23 13 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.00 112 12 OQ208 1.00 1.50 1.29 144 20 Total 6.54 730 128 =========================================================== 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 HtHoKeNyOnYjShTsWwWzYgYs 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 On ONSALA60 Mark5B Yj RAEGYEB Mark5B Sh SESHAN25 Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Ww WARK12M Mark5B Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Yg YARRA12M Mark5B Ys YEBES40M 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 On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ht Ho Ke Ny On Yj Sh Ts Ww Wz Yg Ho 20 Ho 15 Ke 20 20 Ke 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 Sh 20 20 20 20 20 20 Sh 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 Ys 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15