Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1166 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 R1166 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-073-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-074-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005073 (2005.20) ( 13444 MJD, MON. 14MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:29:38.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 38.8m -2d 17.9 =========================================================== 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 Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz 0208-512 05073-170000| 184 184 | 1300+580 05073-170000| 130 95 200 200 200| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz 1741-038 05074-161814| 165 165 | 2113+293 05074-161900| 40 40 | 3C418 05074-162223| 74 115 115| 0423+051 05074-162231| 200 200 | 2145+067 05074-162517| 40 40 | 2234+282 05074-162642| 102 149 149| 0829+046 05074-162930| 155 155 | 1749+096 05074-163028| 40 43 43 | 1219+285 05074-163340| 200 200 | OJ287 05074-163355| 40 40| 1300+580 05074-163757| 130 95 200 200 200| 0743+259 05074-164206| 107 45 107| 1923+210 05074-164214| 40 40 | 2356+385 05074-164420| 200 200 | 0556+238 05074-164442| 83 188 188| 0434-188 05074-164840| 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1166.skd for experiment R1166 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 6.7 Min = .0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Sh-Tc on 0727-115) RMS = 8.6 Total time: 1429 minutes ( 23.8 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Hh=HARTRAO Mc=MEDICINA Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 43 24 37 23 17 40 42 32 % cal. time: 4 2 4 2 1 3 4 3 % slew time: 24 37 36 36 3 17 11 23 % idle time: 27 35 21 36 77 38 42 40 total # scans: 369 199 384 181 116 333 352 276 # scans/hour : 15.5 8.4 16.1 7.6 4.9 14.0 14.8 11.6 Avg scan (sec): 102 105 83 113 129 104 102 105 Total GBytes: 1489 826 1297 804 581 1367 1428 1114 Total GB(M5): 1323 735 1153 715 516 1215 1270 990 # of tapes : 2.8 1.4 2.1 1.4 1.0 2.2 2.3 tape change times (hhmm): 0130 1158 0411 1144 0000 0336 0432 0948 0000 1619 0000 0000 1505 1413 Total number of tapes: 13.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6930.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|369 3 163 130 45 236 162 739 Hh| 199 143 24 62 53 108 393 Mc| 384 99 38 132 280 855 Sh| 181 1 55 110 419 Tc| 116 85 34 265 Wf| 333 143 704 Wz| 352 837 Number of 2-station scans: 284 Number of 3-station scans: 228 Number of 4-station scans: 113 Number of 5-station scans: 46 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 671 2106 =========================================================== 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: HARTRAO MEDICINA SESHAN25 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 0426-380 1.00 1.50 .24 5 5 0423+051 1.00 1.50 .52 11 9 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.23 26 3 0829+046 1.00 1.50 .76 16 16 0828+493 1.00 1.50 1.42 30 12 0110+495 1.00 1.50 1.47 31 5 1600+335 1.00 1.50 .95 20 10 1219+285 1.00 1.50 .66 14 14 1045-188 1.00 1.50 .57 12 6 1416+067 1.00 1.50 .57 12 12 Total 8.40 177 92 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT 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 Hh HARTRAO 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Mc MEDICINA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Sh SESHAN25 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 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 Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Mc 20 20 Mc 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15