Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1169 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 R1169 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-094-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-095-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005094 (2005.26) ( 13465 MJD, MON. 4APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 5:52:26.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 0h 55.3m 5d 55.1 =========================================================== 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 0235+164 05094-170000| 138 63 138 133 | 0743+259 05094-170000| 200 200 175| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz 0602+673 05095-164259| 40 40 93 93 45| 0405-385 05095-164301| 200 200 | 0059+581 05095-164520| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1169.skd for experiment R1169 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 6.8 Min = .0 Max = 72.0 (Baseline Hh-Wf on 1424-418) RMS = 8.1 Total time: 1426 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: 42 33 36 31 38 47 37 38 % cal. time: 5 3 4 3 3 4 4 4 % slew time: 25 46 39 43 8 18 11 28 % idle time: 28 17 19 22 50 30 46 31 total # scans: 388 238 385 280 245 379 357 324 # scans/hour : 16.3 10.0 16.2 11.8 10.3 15.9 15.0 13.7 Avg scan (sec): 92 118 79 96 131 105 90 101 Total GBytes: 1425 1096 1240 1069 1245 1572 1280 1275 Total GB(M5): 1267 974 1102 951 1107 1397 1138 1134 # of tapes : 2.6 1.8 2.0 1.7 2.0 2.5 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 0201 0656 0515 0635 0425 0231 0614 1123 0000 0000 0000 0000 1234 0000 Total number of tapes: 14.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7935.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Mc Sh Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|388 3 157 190 43 221 135 749 Hh| 238 92 46 108 40 74 363 Mc| 385 92 34 154 284 813 Sh| 280 0 60 98 486 Tc| 245 140 36 361 Wf| 379 130 745 Wz| 357 757 Number of 2-station scans: 556 Number of 3-station scans: 181 Number of 4-station scans: 98 Number of 5-station scans: 45 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 880 2137 =========================================================== 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 0611+131 1.00 1.50 .66 14 14 NRAO190 1.00 1.50 1.31 28 17 0723-008 1.00 1.50 .47 10 10 1749+701 1.00 1.50 1.50 32 7 1929+226 1.00 1.50 1.50 32 13 2021+317 1.00 1.50 .80 17 17 1937-101 1.00 1.50 .47 10 10 2007+777 1.00 1.50 1.50 32 10 0035+413 1.00 1.50 1.45 31 15 0007+171 1.00 1.50 1.36 29 13 Total 11.00 235 126 =========================================================== 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