Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1172 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 R1172 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see Master Schedule Nominal start: 2005-115-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-116-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005115 (2005.32) ( 13486 MJD, MON. 25APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7:15:13.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 13.1m 13d 23.0 =========================================================== 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 0607-157 05115-170000| 40 40 40| 1611+343 05115-170000| 40 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0607-157 05116-165100| 40 40 | OQ208 05116-165111| 51 40 40 51| 1519-273 05116-165251| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1172.skd for experiment R1172 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.9 Min = .0 Max = 56.8 (Baseline Sv-Tc on 0607-157) RMS = 10.1 Total time: 1433 minutes ( 23.9 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: 36 31 29 42 35 45 33 36 % cal. time: 5 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 % slew time: 28 49 51 10 22 19 13 27 % idle time: 29 15 14 44 35 30 48 31 total # scans: 437 305 402 263 477 416 406 386 # scans/hour : 18.3 12.8 16.8 11.0 20.0 17.4 17.0 16.2 Avg scan (sec): 71 88 63 137 64 93 70 83 Total GBytes: 1276 1082 1059 1397 1281 1557 1176 1262 Total GB(M5): 1134 961 941 1242 1139 1384 1046 1121 # of tapes : 2.4 1.8 1.7 2.3 2.1 2.5 1.9 tape change times (hhmm): 0232 0641 0644 0350 0421 0253 0642 1309 0000 0000 1255 1624 1214 0000 Total number of tapes: 14.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7849.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|437 41 128 41 237 229 136 812 Ho| 305 13 105 181 8 14 362 Sv| 402 28 156 128 282 735 Tc| 263 14 142 50 380 Ts| 477 87 96 771 Wf| 416 174 768 Wz| 406 752 Number of 2-station scans: 778 Number of 3-station scans: 212 Number of 4-station scans: 76 Number of 5-station scans: 42 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1108 2290 =========================================================== 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 3C390.3 1.00 1.50 .79 18 18 0954+658 1.00 1.50 1.70 39 7 1732+389 1.00 1.50 1.57 36 11 2051+745 1.00 1.50 .52 12 12 0457+024 1.00 1.50 1.09 25 17 2319+272 1.00 1.50 1.27 29 16 1123+264 1.00 1.50 1.57 36 14 2254+074 1.00 1.50 1.22 28 18 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .92 21 21 2052-474 1.00 1.50 .13 3 3 Total 10.79 247 137 =========================================================== 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