Session Notes for v23250 Prepared by K. Baver, NVI, Inc./GSFC =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: V23250 Description VGOS INTEN Scheduler: NASA Correlator: WASH Start: 2023-250-18:30:00 End: 2023-250-19:30:00 ---------- Scan data parameters------------------------------- VScan Y (Compute scan length) Duration 30 sec (default duration for VSCAN=N) Modscan 1 sec (scans are multiples of this) Minscan 20 sec (min scan length) Maxscan 60 sec (max scan length) Setup 2 sec (settle time) Early 0 sec (start recording) Calibration 4 sec (time before obs) Corsync 1 sec (pad scan at end) Idle 0 sec (idle after obs) Minslew 0 sec (min slew time) Fill_off 0 sec (fill cmd buff) Mark6_off 0 sec (buffer offset) ---------- Procedure parameters ------------------------------ PRFLAG YYNN (required procedures) PREOB PREOB (pre-ob procedure) MIDOB MIDOB (mid-ob procedure) POSTOB MIDOB (post-ob procedure) ---------- Timing parameters ------------------------------ SOURCE 1sec (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: ./v23250.skd FREQUENCY SX (default freq. code) Process ID: 25384 Printer commands: lj, ljp Current yyyyddd: 2023250 (2023.68)( 20195 MJD, THUR 7 SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 17:36:18 (18:30:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 4.3m 5d 57.2 =========================================================== First observations Observation listing from file ./v23250.skd for experiment V23250 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss K2 Ws 1803+784 23250-183000| 20 20| 1123+264 23250-183042| 24 24| 0202+319 23250-183134| 20 20| 0109+224 23250-183210| 57 57| 0613+570 23250-183329| 20 20| 0955+476 23250-183410| 20 20| 0738+491 23250-183448| 25 25| 3C274 23250-183535| 20 20| 1306+360 23250-183613| 42 42| 1053+704 23250-183715| 30 30| End of listing. =========================================================== Last observations Observation listing from file ./v23250.skd for experiment V23250 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss K2 Ws 1128+385 23250-192009| 20 20| 0738+491 23250-192050| 25 25| 0955+476 23250-192135| 20 20| 1306+360 23250-192214| 42 42| 1156+295 23250-192312| 120 120| 1308+328 23250-192527| 21 21| 1144+402 23250-192605| 20 20| 0613+570 23250-192648| 20 20| 1030+415 23250-192730| 22 22| 1324+224 23250-192812| 32 32| 1128+385 23250-192903| 20 20| End of listing. =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./v23250.skd for experiment V23250 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 2.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 110.8 (Baseline K2-Ws on 3C274 ) RMS = 11.5 Total time: 59 minutes ( 1.0 hours). Key: K2=KOKEE12M Ws=WETTZ13S K2 Ws Avg % obs. time: 62 62 62 % cal. time: 8 8 8 % slew time: 25 25 25 % idle time: 4 4 5 total # scans: 70 70 70 # scans/hour : 71 71 71 Avg scan (sec): 31 31 31 # data tracks: 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 Total TB(M5): 2.25 2.25 2.25 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | K2 Ws Total -------------------- K2| 70 70 Ws| 70 Number of 2-station scans: 70 Total number of scans: 70 Total number of obs: 70 Total integrated obs-time: 2195 Average obs-time: 31.4 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 120 #Obs: | 45| 5| 4| 3| 5| 0| 2| 3| 3| Average X-band SNRs by baseline | K2 Ws AVG ------------------- K2| 35 35 Ws| 35 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | K2 Ws AVG ------------------- K2| 24 24 Ws| 24 =========================================================== Calibrator observations: source time duration X SNR S SNR 1128+385 23250-184312| 120 120| 127 | 77 | 1803+784 23250-190402| 120 120| 205 | 123 | 1156+295 23250-192312| 120 120| 138 | 82 |