Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1179 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 R1179 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-164-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-165-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005164 (2005.45) ( 13535 MJD, MON. 13JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 10:28:24.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 5h 28.5m 23d 14.5 =========================================================== 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 period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 05164-170000| 53 40 53| 1622-253 05164-170000| 40 40 | 0552+398 05164-170316| 91 46 91 40 59| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 1124-186 05165-164241| 200 200| 2243-123 05165-164248| 40 40 | 0602+673 05165-164307| 40 40 | 2145+067 05165-164414| 40 40 40 | 1923+210 05165-164637| 40 40 40 | OJ287 05165-164644| 200 200 | OW-015 05165-164803| 90 90 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1179.skd for experiment R1179 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.0 Min = .0 Max = 49.7 (Baseline Sv-Wz on 1124-186) RMS = 10.8 Total time: 1430 minutes ( 23.8 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 29 25 42 31 44 35 35 % cal. time: 5 4 5 3 6 5 5 5 % slew time: 28 51 53 11 24 19 13 29 % idle time: 30 15 16 43 38 31 46 32 total # scans: 443 327 411 279 523 409 425 402 # scans/hour : 18.6 13.7 17.2 11.7 21.9 17.2 17.8 16.9 Avg scan (sec): 70 76 52 130 51 93 70 76 Total GBytes: 1271 1016 910 1402 1141 1514 1219 1211 Total GB(M5): 1130 903 809 1246 1014 1346 1084 1076 # of tapes : 2.3 1.6 1.4 2.3 1.8 2.4 1.9 tape change times (hhmm): 0315 0711 0943 0231 0626 0211 0544 1321 0000 0000 1426 0000 1258 0000 Total number of tapes: 13.8 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7533.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|443 49 154 50 269 207 120 849 Ho| 327 7 97 220 10 12 395 Sv| 411 29 164 138 320 812 Tc| 279 14 154 58 402 Ts| 523 88 125 880 Wf| 409 186 783 Wz| 425 821 Number of 2-station scans: 756 Number of 3-station scans: 235 Number of 4-station scans: 95 Number of 5-station scans: 44 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1130 2471 =========================================================== 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 1252+119 1.00 1.50 1.50 37 23 1004+141 1.00 1.50 1.42 35 14 OW-015 1.00 1.50 1.17 29 17 0151+474 1.00 1.50 1.62 40 9 1514-241 1.00 1.50 1.01 25 23 0736+017 1.00 1.50 1.58 39 17 0821+394 1.00 1.50 1.25 31 7 1614+051 1.00 1.50 1.21 30 22 0605-085 1.00 1.50 1.17 29 23 DA426 1.00 1.50 1.17 29 8 Total 13.11 324 163 =========================================================== 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