Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1708 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: R1708 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2015-278-17:00:00 End: 2015-279-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2015278 (2015.76) ( 17301 MJD, MON. 5OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 17:56:12 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 44.6m -4d 47.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ishioka and Yebes-13.2m were 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 Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Yg 0017+200 15278-170000| 44 44 145 156 81 59 64 43 48 156| 1958-179 15278-170253| 64 43 64 43 43 | 0229+131 15278-170313| 43 43 43 48 43 60 60| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Yg NRAO512 15279-165627| 75 48 75 45 43 | 0402-362 15279-165635| 43 43 43| 0454-234 15279-165835| 43 43 43 43 43 43| 1958-179 15279-165845| 43 43 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1708.skd for experiment R1708 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.1 Min = 0.0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ma-Ww on 0003-066) RMS = 13.8 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Ho=HOBART26 Is=ISHIOKA Ke=KATH12M Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Yj=RAEGYEB Ts=TSUKUB32 Ww=WARK12M Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ht Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 23 37 28 46 42 46 43 39 33 37 34 42 38 % cal. time: 3 5 5 6 5 6 6 5 6 5 6 5 5 % slew time: 40 24 56 10 15 33 25 5 26 14 14 15 24 % idle time: 33 33 9 38 37 14 26 50 33 43 45 37 34 total # scans: 271 454 472 488 467 476 481 456 549 434 479 461 457 # scans/hour : 11 19 20 20 19 20 20 19 23 18 20 19 19 Avg scan (sec): 74 71 51 82 77 83 77 74 53 73 61 79 70 # data tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 # Mk5 tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 Total TB(M5): 1.3 2.1 1.6 2.5 2.3 2.5 2.4 2.2 1.8 2.0 1.9 2.3 2.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ht Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Yg Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 166 11 33 3 157 129 169 40 16 147 16 887 Ht| 153 129 148 244 165 233 154 102 227 173 1894 Ho| 196 346 53 50 13 249 365 42 344 1822 Is| 223 232 280 201 410 177 242 201 2324 Ke| 92 81 64 270 325 85 394 2031 Ma| 348 363 224 6 417 89 2225 Ny| 329 290 32 378 67 2149 Yj| 192 0 368 66 1998 Ts| 222 242 244 2537 Ww| 6 317 1568 Wz| 77 2231 Yg| 1988 Number of 2-station scans: 154 Number of 3-station scans: 189 Number of 4-station scans: 206 Number of 5-station scans: 237 Number of 6-station scans: 221 Number of 7-station scans: 113 Number of 8-station scans: 39 Number of 9-station scans: 15 Number of 10-station scans: 4 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Number of 12-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1178 Total number of obs: 11827 Total integrated obs-time: 750227 Average obs-time: 63.4 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: | 7181| 1274| 960| 511| 589| 239| 350| 161| 129| 81| 40| 78| 57| 57| 59| 16| 11| 34 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Yg AVG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 52 36 27 30 47 41 46 63 33 58 31 48 Ht| 86 38 47 71 42 63 84 42 84 55 63 Ho| 74 92 46 44 27 189 98 60 87 99 Is| 62 46 56 37 209 45 58 43 79 Ke| 42 40 32 146 50 48 50 69 Ma| 78 91 105 40 125 39 82 Ny| 77 132 40 109 31 79 Yj| 88 - 115 31 76 Ts| 110 144 101 138 Ww| 47 43 67 Wz| 47 100 Yg| 59 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Yg AVG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 41 45 10 22 25 22 30 27 20 29 23 29 Ht| 83 22 35 47 30 51 64 34 51 45 47 Ho| 44 65 42 32 44 155 70 37 72 76 Is| 26 15 19 14 78 23 19 23 32 Ke| 24 22 21 82 30 25 32 42 Ma| 34 44 45 16 49 29 38 Ny| 38 60 23 45 24 36 Yj| 45 - 52 28 40 Ts| 75 61 73 75 Ww| 21 30 45 Wz| 30 44 Yg| 43 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX8N 8F Recording mode for: FORTLEZA HART15M HOBART26 ISHIOKA KATH12M MATERA NYALES20 RAEGYEB TSUKUB32 WARK12M WETTZELL YARRA12M Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel Mk341:1 512 Mbits 128 MHz 14 2 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks 8.00 MHz 1 32(*1) 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 19.13 11.48 30.61 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 0137+012 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1637+574 1.00 1.50 2.22 262 22 1147+245 1.00 1.50 0.72 85 11 0812+367 1.00 1.50 1.19 141 21 2243+047 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 3C84 1.00 1.50 0.03 3 1 0406-127 1.00 1.50 0.06 7 3 1352-104 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1143-332 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1743+173 1.00 1.50 0.14 16 6 Total 4.35 514 64 =========================================================== 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 FtHtHoIsKeMaNyYjTsWwWzYg 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5B Is ISHIOKA K5 Ke KATH12M Mark5B Ma MATERA Mark5B Ny NYALES20 Mark5B Yj RAEGYEB Mark5B 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 Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Ft Ht Ho Is Ke Ma Ny Yj Ts Ww Wz Ht 20 Ht 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Is 20 20 20 Is 15 15 15 Ke 20 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yj 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yj 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 Ww 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ww 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15