Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1182 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 R1182 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-186-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-187-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005186 (2005.51) ( 13557 MJD, TUES 5JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 11:55: 9.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 6h 59.8m 22d 43.6 =========================================================== 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. Matera and Ny Alesund were tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 3C418 05186-170000| 93 92 40 93| CTA26 05186-170000| 200 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0607-157 05187-164501| 40 40 | 0823+033 05187-164631| 48 49 49| 0048-097 05187-164658| 40 40 | 1741-038 05187-164855| 40 40| 0528+134 05187-164948| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1182.skd for experiment R1182 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 9.3 Min = .0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1958-179) RMS = 13.3 Total time: 1431 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 41 14 20 36 36 45 35 32 % cal. time: 6 2 4 3 6 6 5 5 % slew time: 31 17 18 9 24 23 16 20 % idle time: 22 66 57 51 33 25 43 43 total # scans: 528 170 312 267 539 483 456 393 # scans/hour : 22.1 7.1 13.1 11.2 22.6 20.3 19.1 16.5 Avg scan (sec): 66 73 55 116 57 80 66 72 Total GBytes: 1445 509 735 1214 1303 1563 1248 1145 Total GB(M5): 1284 453 654 1079 1158 1390 1109 1018 # of tapes : 2.7 .9 1.2 1.9 2.1 2.5 2.0 tape change times (hhmm): 0147 0000 1249 0520 0419 0246 0538 1115 0000 0000 0000 1618 1225 0000 Total number of tapes: 13.2 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7125.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|528 55 213 52 387 232 179 1118 Ma| 170 98 45 85 84 153 520 Ny| 312 25 226 138 217 917 Tc| 267 33 207 92 454 Ts| 539 123 234 1088 Wf| 483 252 1036 Wz| 456 1127 Number of 2-station scans: 423 Number of 3-station scans: 288 Number of 4-station scans: 143 Number of 5-station scans: 79 Number of 6-station scans: 13 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 946 3130 =========================================================== 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: MATERA NYALES20 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: 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1045-188 1.00 1.50 .32 10 6 2029+121 1.00 1.50 .48 15 15 0420-014 1.00 1.50 1.69 53 11 0836+710 1.00 1.50 1.76 55 9 1213+350 1.00 1.50 .96 30 18 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 .58 18 9 1502+106 1.00 1.50 2.08 65 24 0406+121 1.00 1.50 .89 28 13 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .19 6 6 NRAO512 1.00 1.50 1.63 51 12 Total 10.58 331 123 =========================================================== 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 Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ny NYALES20 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 Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Ma 20 Ma 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 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