Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1716 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2015.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1716 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2015-334-17:00:00 End: 2015-335-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2015334 (2015.92) ( 17357 MJD, MON. 30NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21:36:59 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 25.6m -21d 39.9 =========================================================== Important Station Information Yebes 13.2m 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 Ww Wz Yg 0454-234 15334-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43| 1739+522 15334-170000| 86 86 45 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ww Wz Yg 1255-316 15335-165609| 56 56 | 0552+398 15335-165635| 78 62 65 43 78 76| 1954-388 15335-165749| 43 43 43 | 0059+581 15335-165842| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1716.skd for experiment R1716 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.2 Min = 0.0 Max = 72.0 (Baseline Ww-Wz on 3C274 ) RMS = 14.6 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Yj=RAEGYEB Kv=SEJONG Ww=WARK12M Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ww Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 29 41 59 52 38 48 44 52 54 44 54 47 % cal. time: 4 6 5 5 5 6 6 4 5 6 5 5 % slew time: 42 29 15 15 30 27 6 7 16 17 15 20 % idle time: 24 24 20 26 26 19 44 35 24 32 25 28 total # scans: 306 505 465 463 460 512 482 380 451 520 452 454 # scans/hour : 13 21 19 19 19 21 20 16 19 22 19 19 Avg scan (sec): 81 70 109 98 72 81 79 118 103 73 103 88 # data tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 # Mk5 tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 Total TB(M5): 1.6 2.3 3.2 2.9 2.1 2.6 2.4 2.9 3.0 2.4 3.0 2.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ww Wz Yg Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 193 21 5 59 127 205 9 20 173 13 825 Ht| 156 170 0 173 263 104 113 254 200 1626 Hb| 361 201 59 11 196 391 38 363 1797 Ke| 202 121 50 257 324 91 398 1979 Kk| 228 131 208 232 166 167 1594 Ny| 358 193 54 401 88 1802 Yj| 103 0 425 55 1601 Kv| 187 134 218 1609 Ww| 7 304 1632 Wz| 84 1773 Yg| 1890 Number of 2-station scans: 220 Number of 3-station scans: 210 Number of 4-station scans: 295 Number of 5-station scans: 253 Number of 6-station scans: 183 Number of 7-station scans: 49 Number of 8-station scans: 5 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1215 Total number of obs: 9064 Total integrated obs-time: 726444 Average obs-time: 80.1 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: | 3793| 1035| 885| 508| 534| 596| 410| 298| 342| 139| 168| 100| 117| 56| 11| 6| 40| 26 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ww Wz Yg AVG ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 38 25 25 25 33 35 24 27 44 25 36 Ht| 37 33 - 45 55 30 30 71 38 45 Hb| 45 33 38 35 37 51 49 41 42 Ke| 34 40 35 38 39 49 39 39 Kk| 53 31 37 39 44 26 37 Ny| 68 48 39 101 35 61 Yj| 32 - 96 33 61 Kv| 33 48 30 37 Ww| 41 35 40 Wz| 45 74 Yg| 36 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ww Wz Yg AVG ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 25 18 17 22 20 20 15 19 22 18 22 Ht| 25 24 - 33 37 22 24 42 30 31 Hb| 20 31 23 17 18 23 20 21 22 Ke| 33 23 17 19 21 21 23 22 Kk| 45 28 32 39 35 31 34 Ny| 35 25 26 43 24 34 Yj| 18 - 44 20 33 Kv| 19 22 18 21 Ww| 25 22 24 Wz| 24 36 Yg| 23 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX8N 8F Recording mode for: FORTLEZA HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 RAEGYEB SEJONG 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 2227-399 1.00 1.50 0.75 68 14 0112-017 1.00 1.50 0.36 33 7 1435-218 1.00 1.50 0.43 39 15 1038+52B 1.00 1.50 1.95 177 21 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.85 168 20 1424+240 1.00 1.50 1.11 101 23 2150+173 1.00 1.50 0.72 65 16 1739+522 1.00 1.50 1.84 167 18 0632-235 1.00 1.50 0.39 35 9 1130+009 1.00 1.50 0.19 17 7 Total 9.60 870 150 =========================================================== 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 FtHtHbKeKkNyYjKvWwWzYg 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 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 Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ww Wz Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Yj Kv Ww 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 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