Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1188 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 R1188 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-227-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-228-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005227 (2005.62) ( 13598 MJD, MON. 15AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 14:36:47.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 9h 41.2m 13d 51.8 =========================================================== 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 Wf Wz 1334-127 05227-170000| 40 40 40| CTA26 05227-170000| 153 153 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ho Kk Ma Wf Wz 1803+784 05228-164627| 40 70 70 45 40| 0059+581 05228-164820| 40 134 61 134| 0235+164 05228-165136| 40 40 40 | 1758+388 05228-165426| 174 174| =========================================================== Simulation results Database X offset/rate Y offset/rate UT1 offset/rate Nutation Psi/Eps $05AUG15Z1 57.00 203.22 53.83 190.79 2.11 6.14 118.50 50.50 =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1188.skd for experiment R1188 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.4 Min = .0 Max = 55.4 (Baseline Ho-Kk on 4C39.25 ) RMS = 9.8 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ho Kk Ma Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 45 18 39 40 38 43 37 % cal. time: 5 2 6 5 5 5 5 % slew time: 28 39 22 30 19 13 26 % idle time: 21 40 31 24 37 39 33 total # scans: 465 207 497 402 441 445 409 # scans/hour : 19.4 8.6 20.7 16.8 18.4 18.6 17.1 Avg scan (sec): 83 75 69 85 74 82 77 Total GBytes: 1558 635 1405 1379 1335 1481 1299 Total GB(M5): 1385 564 1249 1226 1186 1317 1155 # of tapes : 2.8 1.0 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.4 tape change times (hhmm): 0133 0000 0452 0355 0357 0421 1017 0000 1514 1447 1612 1358 Total number of tapes: 12.7 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6927.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ho Kk Ma Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|465 55 309 80 229 172 845 Ho| 207 145 31 16 16 263 Kk| 497 35 233 72 794 Ma| 402 172 329 647 Wf| 441 179 829 Wz| 445 768 Number of 2-station scans: 631 Number of 3-station scans: 272 Number of 4-station scans: 66 Number of 5-station scans: 23 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 992 2073 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX 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 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 0716+714 1.00 1.50 1.01 21 3 2216-038 1.00 1.50 1.30 27 19 1546+027 1.00 1.50 1.21 25 12 1342+663 1.00 1.50 1.06 22 22 1758+388 1.00 1.50 .96 20 9 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.25 26 5 0248+430 1.00 1.50 1.01 21 21 1308+328 1.00 1.50 1.30 27 10 1030+415 1.00 1.50 1.01 21 15 0035+413 1.00 1.50 1.21 25 9 Total 11.34 235 125 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF F =========================================================== 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 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 Wf Gc Ho Kk Ma Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15