Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1167 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 R1167 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-080-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-081-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005080 (2005.22) ( 13451 MJD, MON. 21MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:57:14.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 0h 4.3m 0d 28.1 =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:00 U.T. to 20:00 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this two hour period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz 0235+164 05080-170000| 163 136 163 134 139| 1451-375 05080-170000| 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz 1954-388 05081-163654| 100 95 100 | 2113+293 05081-164031| 54 76 76 | 0458-020 05081-164046| 161 161| 1308+326 05081-164321| 40 40 | 0805+410 05081-164522| 120 120| 0235+164 05081-164605| 137 137 134 | 2234+282 05081-165042| 113 120 120| 0119+115 05081-165451| 40 40 40| End of listing. =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1167.skd for experiment R1167 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.5 Min = .0 Max = 53.3 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 1954-388) RMS = 10.5 Total time: 1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 44 30 26 40 27 45 36 36 % cal. time: 4 2 2 4 2 4 3 3 % slew time: 27 45 39 17 7 18 12 24 % idle time: 23 20 30 37 62 30 47 36 total # scans: 409 216 206 362 183 383 305 294 # scans/hour : 17.1 9.0 8.6 15.1 7.7 16.0 12.8 12.3 Avg scan (sec): 93 122 112 97 131 102 102 108 Total GBytes: 1525 1033 907 1399 929 1552 1230 1225 Total GB(M5): 1356 918 806 1243 826 1379 1093 1089 # of tapes : 2.8 1.7 1.5 2.3 1.6 2.5 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 0128 0806 0941 0422 1005 0249 0535 1006 0000 0000 1434 0000 1220 0000 Total number of tapes: 14.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7624.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|409 11 60 261 34 225 157 748 Hh| 216 73 0 74 71 109 338 Ho| 206 101 49 15 19 317 Kk| 362 84 165 68 679 Tc| 183 111 42 394 Wf| 383 191 778 Wz| 305 586 Number of 2-station scans: 377 Number of 3-station scans: 293 Number of 4-station scans: 99 Number of 5-station scans: 7 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 776 1920 =========================================================== 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 KOKEE 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 Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0912+297 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1148-671 1.00 1.50 .63 12 12 1155+251 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0215+015 1.00 1.50 .68 13 9 0422-380 1.00 1.50 .94 18 7 3C390.3 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 OQ172 1.00 1.50 1.09 21 13 OW-015 1.00 1.50 .31 6 6 0010+405 1.00 1.50 1.51 29 13 0507+179 1.00 1.50 .73 14 12 Total 5.89 113 72 =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Kk KOKEE 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 Ho Kk Tc Wf Gc Hh Ho Kk Tc Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 Kk 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