Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r11086 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2022.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R11086 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2023-016-17:00:00 End: 2023-017-17:00:00 ---------- Scan data parameters------------------------------- VScan Y (Compute scan length) Duration 196 sec (default duration for VSCAN=N) Modscan 1 sec (scans are multiples of this) Minscan 20 sec (min scan length) Maxscan 200 sec (max scan length) Setup 20 sec (settle time) Early 0 sec (start recording) Calibration 10 sec (time before obs) Corsync 3 sec (pad scan at end) Idle 0 sec (idle after obs) Minslew 0 sec (min slew time) Fill_off 5 sec (fill cmd buff) Mark6_off 0 sec (buffer offset) ---------- Procedure parameters ------------------------------ PRFLAG YNNN (required procedures) PREOB PREOB (pre-ob procedure) MIDOB MIDOB (mid-ob procedure) POSTOB MIDOB (post-ob procedure) ---------- Timing parameters ------------------------------ SOURCE 5sec (SOURCE time) Tapetm 1sec (TAPE command time) ---------- General parameters ------------------------------- MODULAR 1sec (start time mark) MINIMUM 0sec (time between obs.) LOOKAHEAD 20min (for WHATSUP) SNR MAN (reject for low SNR) WIDTH 79columns (width of screen) CONFIRM Y (ask before adding obs) KEEP_LOG N (keep log upon exit) CONF_EQUIP N (update info from cat) DEBUG N (display debugging info) VERBOSE LEVEL 0 ---------- Informational only ------------------------------- SKED version: 2022-11-03 Schedule file: ./r11086.skd FREQUENCY SX (default freq. code) Process ID: 20663 Printer commands: lj, ljp Current yyyyddd: 2023016 (2023.04)( 19961 MJD, MON. 16 JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 00:43:29 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 53.2m -20d 53.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund 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 an intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Yg 0458-020 23016-170000| 60 51 92 48 51 72 67 92| 0202+319 23016-170203| 33 20 43 43 | OJ287 23016-170218| 33 58 30 58 32 47| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Yg 0133+476 23017-165620| 68 200 200 | 0237-027 23017-165627| 200 200 200 | 1144-379 23017-165815| 105 105 105 105 105| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r11086.skd for experiment R11086 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 135.0 (Baseline Ht-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 14.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Is=ISHIOKA Ke=KATH12M Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Ns=NYALE13S Kv=SEJONG Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ht Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 48 37 65 38 43 51 50 52 55 53 49 % cal. time: 6 6 7 6 7 5 4 5 7 6 6 % slew time: 29 18 13 20 42 21 3 21 16 20 21 % idle time: 16 38 14 35 7 22 41 21 21 21 24 total # scans: 559 477 596 514 595 392 360 422 646 507 506 # scans/hour : 23 20 25 21 25 16 15 18 27 21 21 Avg scan (sec): 73 68 95 64 62 113 121 107 73 90 86 # data tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 # Mk5 tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 Total TB(M5): 2.6 33.1 3.6 33.5 2.4 2.8 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.9 9.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ht Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Yg Total ------------------------------------------------------------ Ht| 131 134 128 342 128 100 94 312 183 1552 Hb| 242 436 38 29 18 229 31 364 1518 Is| 271 143 194 139 326 227 250 1926 Ke| 63 52 30 259 59 399 1697 Ma| 269 206 90 481 81 1713 Ny| 268 87 280 50 1357 Ns| 74 224 26 1085 Kv| 93 258 1510 Wz| 71 1778 Yg| 1682 Number of 2-station scans: 456 Number of 3-station scans: 414 Number of 4-station scans: 233 Number of 5-station scans: 220 Number of 6-station scans: 70 Number of 7-station scans: 27 Number of 8-station scans: 24 Number of 9-station scans: 9 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1453 Total number of obs: 7909 Total integrated obs-time: 577057 Average obs-time: 73.0 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 #Obs: | 1583| 925| 791| 780| 522| 531| 422| 356| 452| 242| 215| 149| 159| 209| 95| 130| 101| 247| Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Yg AVG ----------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 47 54 43 54 67 42 44 78 45 56 Hb| 47 102 48 63 43 34 57 43 60 Is| 51 52 81 61 77 60 46 59 Ke| 43 64 46 38 55 39 59 Ma| 91 56 44 106 43 73 Ny| 120 79 135 63 99 Ns| 50 86 46 76 Kv| 60 35 51 Wz| 55 90 Yg| 43 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Yg AVG ----------------------------------------------------------- Ht| 27 34 28 28 41 22 28 40 33 32 Hb| 25 59 18 27 15 17 24 22 33 Is| 28 26 39 22 39 30 31 31 Ke| 19 29 16 19 25 23 33 Ma| 39 20 21 38 21 30 Ny| 37 38 55 33 41 Ns| 20 27 21 26 Kv| 28 22 26 Wz| 29 37 Yg| 25 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode for: HART15M HOBART12 ISHIOKA KATH12M MATERA NYALES20 NYALE13S SEJONG WETTZELL YARRA12M Mode Tot.Rate #Chan Chan.BW Tot.BW #BBC #bits Tracks*(fan) Tot.tracks Mk341:1 512 Mbps 16 8 Mhz 128 Mhz 14 2 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 2351-154 1.00 1.50 0.30 24 18 1823+689 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2002-375 1.00 1.50 0.06 5 5 0107-610 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0422-380 1.00 1.50 0.15 12 12 1014+615 1.00 1.50 1.00 79 20 2037+216 1.00 1.50 0.86 68 17 1610-771 1.00 1.50 0.71 56 20 0342+147 1.00 1.50 0.63 50 12 0930-080 1.00 1.50 0.20 16 7 Total 3.92 310 111 =========================================================== Minor Options Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatWt Abs 2.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HtHbIsKeMaNyNsKvWzYg 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 El_noise 0.0 SNRWts Yes SplitTwins No =========================================================== 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 Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Ht Hb Is Ke Ma Ny Ns Kv Wz Hb 20 Hb 15 Is 20 20 Is 15 15 Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15 Ns 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ns 15 15 15 15 15 15 Kv 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Kv 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15