Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1164 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2005.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1164 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-059-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-060-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005059 (2005.16) ( 13430 MJD, MON. 28FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 3:34:26.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 46.9m -7d 44.4 =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:00 U.T. to 20:00 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this two hour period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 1741-038 05059-170000| 40 52 52 | 2209+236 05059-170000| 133 79 175 175| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 1622-253 05060-163712| 137 137 | 0743+259 05060-163848| 40 40 40| 0552+398 05060-164151| 40 40 40 40| OK290 05060-164322| 40 40 | CTA26 05060-164448| 40 40 40| 2113+293 05060-164642| 53 53 | OJ287 05060-164809| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1164.skd for experiment R1164 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.9 Min = .0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 12.2 Total time: 1428 minutes ( 23.8 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ho=HOBART26 Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 39 16 28 21 28 40 31 29 % cal. time: 5 1 4 1 4 4 4 3 % slew time: 28 29 51 5 20 20 12 24 % idle time: 26 51 15 71 46 34 52 42 total # scans: 432 142 372 129 407 397 353 318 # scans/hour : 18.2 6.0 15.6 5.4 17.1 16.7 14.8 13.4 Avg scan (sec): 78 99 65 144 59 87 75 86 Total GBytes: 1382 560 1006 718 1025 1396 1091 1026 Total GB(M5): 1228 498 894 638 911 1241 969 912 # of tapes : 2.6 .9 1.6 1.2 1.6 2.2 1.7 tape change times (hhmm): 0242 0000 0756 1427 0940 0304 0856 1137 0000 0000 0000 0000 1427 0000 Total number of tapes: 11.9 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6382.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|432 46 184 48 266 242 144 930 Ho| 142 19 39 110 22 21 257 Sv| 372 20 185 199 275 882 Tc| 129 22 83 38 250 Ts| 407 120 151 854 Wf| 397 222 888 Wz| 353 851 Number of 2-station scans: 273 Number of 3-station scans: 329 Number of 4-station scans: 101 Number of 5-station scans: 59 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 762 2456 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX4F 4F Recording mode setup for: GILCREEK Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel VLBA1:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 8:1 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 TSUKUB32 Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: SVETLOE TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 16 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 2000-330 1.00 1.50 .12 3 3 1039+811 1.00 1.50 1.18 29 5 1055+018 1.00 1.50 1.43 35 17 NRAO140 1.00 1.50 1.51 37 9 VR422201 1.00 1.50 1.47 36 7 1226+373 1.00 1.50 1.10 27 17 0202-172 1.00 1.50 1.30 32 12 1624+416 1.00 1.50 1.59 39 9 1655+077 1.00 1.50 1.51 37 13 0723-008 1.00 1.50 .94 23 19 Total 12.13 298 111 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 1.00 FFFTF FF =========================================================== Major Options SkyCov Yes Min_Between 20 Best% 60.0 Last_Hrs 1.00 Add_ps 30.00 Obs_Wts SNRwt =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Gc GILCREEK 17400feet (Thin ) 56700 (HIGH ) 12 Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Sv SVETLOE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ts TSUKUB32 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Wf WESTFORD 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Sv 20 20 Sv 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15