Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r11121 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: R11121 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2023-261-17:00:00 End: 2023-262-17:00:00 ---------- 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: 2023-02-10 Schedule file: ./r11121.skd FREQUENCY SX (default freq. code) Process ID: 54163 Printer commands: lj, ljp Current yyyyddd: 2023261 (2023.72)( 20206 MJD, MON. 18 SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:49:25 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 43.6m 1d 46.6 =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. and 23:15 U.T. to 00:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in intensive sessions during those periods. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Zc 0059+581 23261-170000| 25 99 99 39| 1057-797 23261-170000| 36 40 40 | 1144+402 23261-170000| 200 200 168 144 104 | 1548+056 23261-170154| 20 20 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Zc 1406-076 23262-165223| 200 200 | 0131-522 23262-165241| 139 139 | 0529+483 23262-165310| 152 152 | 0134+311 23262-165352| 133 133 | 0019+058 23262-165412| 74 100| 0059+581 23262-165527| 200 47 | 1519-273 23262-165639| 200 200 200 | 0016+731 23262-165641| 199 199 | 2356+385 23262-165742| 138 138 138| 0727-115 23262-165800| 120 120 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r11121.skd for experiment R11121 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 4.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 66.5 (Baseline Ht-Hb on OJ287 ) RMS = 8.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ag=AGGO Bd=BADARY Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ns=NYALE13S Nn=NYALE13N Kv=SEJONG Sv=SVETLOE Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 43 34 37 44 42 35 43 36 38 44 35 51 34 40 % cal. time: 4 5 4 4 3 3 4 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 % slew time: 6 51 44 26 12 9 20 2 3 16 45 11 51 23 % idle time: 46 10 14 25 42 52 32 57 54 36 15 32 9 33 total # scans: 309 413 317 383 292 245 327 270 335 318 350 410 422 337 # scans/hour : 13 17 13 16 12 10 14 11 14 13 15 17 18 14 Avg scan (sec): 121 70 100 99 125 125 114 116 98 119 86 108 70 103 # data tracks: 32 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 32 Total TB(M5): 2.4 1.9 2.0 2.4 37.4 31.4 2.4 2.0 33.5 2.4 1.9 2.8 1.9 9.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Zc Total --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| 0 191 147 1 0 30 0 8 0 18 46 26 467 Bd| 18 48 58 47 116 88 166 160 172 186 250 1309 Ft| 133 6 6 21 23 32 4 27 62 47 570 Ht| 106 76 0 16 18 44 34 79 84 785 Hb| 199 109 3 6 35 7 9 27 566 Ke| 67 6 19 59 13 11 21 524 Kk| 41 75 95 67 83 62 766 Ns| 37 59 96 98 105 572 Nn| 97 169 173 164 964 Kv| 78 85 109 825 Sv| 227 217 1125 Wz| 268 1327 Zc| 1380 Number of 2-station scans: 733 Number of 3-station scans: 353 Number of 4-station scans: 179 Number of 5-station scans: 128 Number of 6-station scans: 51 Number of 7-station scans: 18 Number of 8-station scans: 4 Number of 9-station scans: 4 Number of 10-station scans: 1 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Number of 12-station scans: 0 Number of 13-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1471 Total number of obs: 5590 Total integrated obs-time: 518310 Average obs-time: 92.7 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 300 #Obs: | 1154| 433| 459| 440| 390| 381| 308| 230| 169| 168| 141| 187| 99| 87| 85| 77| 52| 333| 397| Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Zc AVG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| - 29 33 29 - 23 - 24 - 28 30 34 30 Bd| 38 96 165 245 139 116 118 148 240 139 221 167 Ft| 66 76 60 30 36 42 22 61 62 51 47 Ht| 83 74 - 40 39 35 121 115 164 80 Hb| 229 60 156 461 86 310 178 201 153 Ke| 71 151 284 100 276 174 246 173 Kk| 44 43 58 62 46 50 66 Ns| 338 68 148 103 99 115 Nn| 54 143 99 111 114 Kv| 108 66 89 88 Sv| 218 269 188 Wz| 190 136 Zc| 169 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Zc AVG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| - 20 30 20 - 32 - 19 - 20 20 24 24 Bd| 22 82 76 111 97 32 40 54 79 51 78 66 Ft| 45 40 40 28 18 20 17 32 31 29 29 Ht| 49 52 - 28 40 34 95 65 89 54 Hb| 132 61 32 161 47 93 52 62 86 Ke| 76 30 113 54 94 58 89 96 Kk| 29 37 48 56 41 44 56 Ns| 119 23 41 32 31 37 Nn| 23 50 36 41 44 Kv| 44 31 38 41 Sv| 75 87 67 Wz| 63 51 Zc| 62 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode for: AGGO BADARY FORTLEZA HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE NYALE13S NYALE13N SEJONG SVETLOE WETTZELL ZELENCHK 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 2216+178 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1 1548+056 1.00 1.50 1.54 86 25 0600+177 1.00 1.50 0.61 34 12 0823-223 1.00 1.50 1.02 57 28 0615+820 1.00 1.50 1.54 86 11 1949-052 1.00 1.50 0.77 43 12 1738+476 1.00 1.50 1.00 56 16 2204-540 1.00 1.50 0.07 4 4 1012+232 1.00 1.50 0.55 31 7 NGC1052 1.00 1.50 0.55 31 10 Total 7.67 429 126 =========================================================== Calibrator Source Information A calibrator source was scheduled every hour during this session with a duration of 300 seconds. =========================================================== 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 AgBdFtHtHbKeKkNsNnKvSvWzZc 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 50 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 El_noise 0.0 SNRWts Yes SplitTwins No =========================================================== Weighted Station 1 AGGO 1.00 5 HOBART12 2.00 =========================================================== 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) Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Ag Bd Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ns Nn Kv Sv Wz Bd 20 Bd 15 Ft 20 20 Ft 15 15 Ht 20 20 20 Ht 15 15 15 Hb 40 40 40 40 Hb 40 40 40 40 Ke 35 35 35 35 99 Ke 35 35 35 35 99 Kk 20 20 20 20 40 35 Kk 15 15 15 15 40 35 Ns 20 20 20 20 40 35 20 Ns 15 15 15 15 40 35 15 Nn 20 20 20 20 40 35 20 99 Nn 15 15 15 15 40 35 15 99 Kv 20 20 20 20 40 35 20 20 20 Kv 15 15 15 15 40 35 15 15 15 Sv 20 20 20 20 40 35 20 20 20 20 Sv 15 15 15 15 40 35 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 40 35 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 40 35 15 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 40 35 20 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 40 35 15 15 15 15 15 15