Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1184 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 R1184 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-199-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-200-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005199 (2005.55) ( 13570 MJD, MON. 18JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12:46:24.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 7h 52.7m 20d 55.0 =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this two hour period. Matera was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0537-441 05199-170000| 75 40 75 | 0602+673 05199-170000| 44 107 107 53| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0104-408 05200-164645| 55 55 | OK290 05200-164804| 110 110 | 1124-186 05200-165051| 200 200 200 200| 1308+326 05200-165634| 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1184.skd for experiment R1184 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.1 Min = .0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Wf-Wz on 1034-293) RMS = 11.6 Total time: 1437 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 37 29 40 16 44 48 37 36 % cal. time: 6 3 5 1 4 5 4 4 % slew time: 31 47 21 11 12 22 14 23 % idle time: 26 20 32 70 39 24 44 37 total # scans: 493 274 467 129 305 455 372 356 # scans/hour : 20.6 11.4 19.5 5.4 12.7 19.0 15.5 14.9 Avg scan (sec): 65 90 74 104 124 90 86 89 Total GBytes: 1324 986 1411 530 1469 1642 1280 1234 Total GB(M5): 1177 877 1255 471 1305 1459 1137 1097 # of tapes : 2.4 1.6 2.2 .9 2.4 2.6 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0237 0738 0425 0000 0317 0209 0637 1304 0000 1439 0000 1240 1128 1650 Total number of tapes: 14.2 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7680.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|493 40 294 45 27 242 193 841 Ho| 274 155 12 120 10 30 367 Kk| 467 11 97 155 62 774 Ma| 129 52 81 120 321 Tc| 305 134 74 504 Wf| 455 230 852 Wz| 372 709 Number of 2-station scans: 589 Number of 3-station scans: 290 Number of 4-station scans: 95 Number of 5-station scans: 5 Number of 6-station scans: 7 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 986 2184 =========================================================== 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 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: KOKEE MATERA 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 1402+044 1.00 1.50 .82 18 10 0422+004 1.00 1.50 2.11 46 20 2214+350 1.00 1.50 1.05 23 9 1738+476 1.00 1.50 1.47 32 14 1725+044 1.00 1.50 1.37 30 14 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.60 35 8 Total 8.42 184 75 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT 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 Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 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 Kk Ma Tc Wf Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15