Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1183 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 R1183 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-192-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-193-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005192 (2005.53) ( 13563 MJD, MON. 11JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12:18:48.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 7h 24.4m 22d 1.4 =========================================================== 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 0602+673 05192-170000| 40 40 40 | 1124-186 05192-170000| 200 200 200 200| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1606+106 05193-153600| 40 40 40| 0454-234 05193-163636| 142 142 | 1656+477 05193-163731| 68 40 68| 1606+106 05193-163922| 40 40 40| 1611+343 05193-164046| 40 40| OJ287 05193-164101| 200 200 200 | 1417+385 05193-164209| 40 40| 1418+546 05193-164332| 40 40| 0607-157 05193-164514| 40 40 | 1300+580 05193-164538| 40 40| 0458-020 05193-164637| 74 74 | 0727-115 05193-164838| 40 40 | 0111+021 05193-164953| 126 126 | 0823+033 05193-165001| 40 42 42| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1183.skd for experiment R1183 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.2 Min = .0 Max = 67.8 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0607-157) RMS = 11.8 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: 42 16 17 38 35 50 38 34 % cal. time: 6 2 3 3 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 29 17 15 8 23 20 15 19 % idle time: 22 64 63 50 36 24 40 43 total # scans: 540 173 277 247 538 463 457 385 # scans/hour : 22.6 7.3 11.6 10.4 22.6 19.4 19.2 16.1 Avg scan (sec): 66 80 54 132 55 93 72 78 Total GBytes: 1478 558 640 1266 1262 1714 1354 1182 Total GB(M5): 1314 496 569 1125 1122 1523 1204 1051 # of tapes : 2.8 .9 1.0 2.1 2.0 2.7 2.2 tape change times (hhmm): 0218 0000 0000 0427 0521 0127 0505 1052 0000 0000 1630 0000 0955 1520 Total number of tapes: 13.7 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7353.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|540 59 188 61 391 229 188 1116 Ma| 173 96 50 85 91 144 525 Ny| 277 22 199 132 192 829 Tc| 247 26 191 77 427 Ts| 538 112 250 1063 Wf| 463 235 990 Wz| 457 1086 Number of 2-station scans: 439 Number of 3-station scans: 269 Number of 4-station scans: 142 Number of 5-station scans: 74 Number of 6-station scans: 12 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 936 3018 =========================================================== 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 0945+408 1.00 1.50 1.03 31 8 OP326 1.00 1.50 .66 20 20 1936-155 1.00 1.50 .56 17 9 0600+177 1.00 1.50 .99 30 17 1656+477 1.00 1.50 .70 21 11 0239+108 1.00 1.50 1.03 31 14 0111+021 1.00 1.50 .60 18 12 Total 5.57 168 91 =========================================================== 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