Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1185 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 R1185 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-206-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-207-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005206 (2005.56) ( 13577 MJD, MON. 25JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:14: .00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 20.5m 19d 31.4 =========================================================== 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 period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0727-115 05206-170000| 40 40 40 | 1216+487 05206-170000| 90 90| 1923+210 05206-170000| 200 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0537-441 05207-164719| 73 40 73 | 0823+033 05207-164721| 40 40 50 50| 1418+546 05207-164952| 140 171 171| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1185.skd for experiment R1185 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.3 Min = .0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 1424-418) RMS = 11.9 Total time: 1432 minutes ( 23.9 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: 42 30 41 18 44 48 35 37 % cal. time: 5 3 5 2 3 5 4 4 % slew time: 28 47 22 14 12 22 12 23 % idle time: 23 18 31 65 40 23 47 36 total # scans: 460 278 458 144 296 443 349 346 # scans/hour : 19.3 11.6 19.2 6.0 12.4 18.6 14.6 14.5 Avg scan (sec): 79 94 76 109 128 94 87 94 Total GBytes: 1473 1038 1419 618 1468 1652 1217 1269 Total GB(M5): 1309 923 1261 550 1305 1468 1082 1128 # of tapes : 2.7 1.6 2.2 3.0 2.4 2.6 1.9 tape change times (hhmm): 0207 0749 0440 1700 0329 0225 0635 1113 0000 1455 1712 1401 1147 0000 Total number of tapes: 16.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7897.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|460 55 278 71 40 224 176 844 Ho| 278 148 9 114 7 26 359 Kk| 458 30 92 146 75 769 Ma| 144 48 105 118 381 Tc| 296 144 63 501 Wf| 443 237 863 Wz| 349 695 Number of 2-station scans: 556 Number of 3-station scans: 271 Number of 4-station scans: 92 Number of 5-station scans: 21 Number of 6-station scans: 5 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 945 2206 =========================================================== 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 OW-015 1.00 1.50 .68 15 15 0637-752 1.00 1.50 .41 9 9 1633+38 1.00 1.50 1.54 34 12 0446+112 1.00 1.50 2.31 51 13 2229+695 1.00 1.50 1.59 35 6 0109+224 1.00 1.50 1.00 22 8 1216+487 1.00 1.50 1.63 36 6 Total 9.16 202 69 =========================================================== 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