Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1178 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 R1178 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2005-157-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-158-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005157 (2005.43) ( 13528 MJD, MON. 6JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 10: 0:49.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 4h 59.5m 22d 42.7 =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this two hour period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 05157-170000| 53 40 53| 1749+096 05157-170000| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz 1606+106 05158-164031| 100 40 100| 1044+719 05158-164434| 40 40 40 40| 1611+343 05158-164648| 40 40 40| 0454-234 05158-164737| 135 135 | 1417+385 05158-164813| 92 45 92| OJ287 05158-165147| 200 200 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1178.skd for experiment R1178 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 11.5 Min = .0 Max = 75.0 (Baseline Wf-Wz on 0135-247) RMS = 15.0 Total time: 1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ho=HOBART26 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 37 29 39 34 45 38 37 % cal. time: 6 3 3 6 5 5 5 % slew time: 30 49 11 24 23 16 26 % idle time: 27 18 46 35 26 40 32 total # scans: 484 299 284 527 473 442 418 # scans/hour : 20.2 12.5 11.9 22.0 19.8 18.5 17.5 Avg scan (sec): 65 85 118 55 82 74 79 Total GBytes: 1307 1019 1308 1241 1559 1334 1295 Total GB(M5): 1161 906 1163 1103 1386 1186 1151 # of tapes : 2.4 1.6 2.1 2.0 2.5 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0250 0719 0306 0531 0236 0539 1239 0000 1516 0000 1220 1556 Total number of tapes: 12.8 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6905.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|484 27 63 287 279 203 859 Ho| 299 92 193 12 18 342 Tc| 284 17 163 94 429 Ts| 527 103 179 779 Wf| 473 275 832 Wz| 442 769 Number of 2-station scans: 693 Number of 3-station scans: 250 Number of 4-station scans: 92 Number of 5-station scans: 1 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1036 2005 =========================================================== 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: 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 2059-786 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1236-684 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 2254+024 1.00 1.50 .30 6 6 0405-123 1.00 1.50 .90 18 14 1657-261 1.00 1.50 .70 14 14 1926+087 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 0135-247 1.00 1.50 .90 18 18 1432+200 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1451-375 1.00 1.50 .45 9 9 0530-727 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 Total 3.24 65 61 =========================================================== 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 FFTFF F =========================================================== 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 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 Tc Ts Wf Gc Ho Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Tc 15 15 Tc 12 12 Ts 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 12 15 15