Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1193 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 R1193 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-283-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-284-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005283 (2005.78) ( 13654 MJD, MON. 10OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18:17:35.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 4.5m -6d 51.9 =========================================================== 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 Hh Kk Ma Sh Wz 0602+673 05283-170000| 44 200 200| 2136+141 05283-170000| 125 200 200 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Hh Kk Ma Sh Wz NRAO512 05284-164526| 200 200 | 0602+673 05284-164528| 87 200 196 200| 3C371 05284-165013| 108 108 107| 1954+513 05284-165250| 91 91| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1193.skd for experiment R1193 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 6.7 Min = .0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Gc-Wz on 0106+013) RMS = 8.8 Total time: 1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Sh=SESHAN25 Wz=WETTZELL Gc Hh Kk Ma Sh Wz Avg % obs. time: 45 34 40 40 35 42 39 % cal. time: 5 3 4 4 3 4 4 % slew time: 25 43 15 25 40 13 27 % idle time: 25 19 40 31 21 40 30 total # scans: 407 253 361 305 273 357 326 # scans/hour : 17.0 10.6 15.1 12.8 11.4 14.9 13.6 Avg scan (sec): 95 117 96 113 110 101 105 Total GBytes: 1538 1156 1381 1352 590 1425 1240 Total GB(M5): 1368 1028 1227 1202 525 1267 1103 # of tapes : 2.8 1.9 2.2 2.2 .9 2.3 tape change times (hhmm): 0107 0604 0418 0327 0000 0424 1002 0000 1501 1450 0000 1420 Total number of tapes: 12.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6616.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Hh Kk Ma Sh Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|407 27 287 99 151 179 743 Hh| 253 0 173 36 173 409 Kk| 361 46 182 92 607 Ma| 305 55 206 579 Sh| 273 61 485 Wz| 357 711 Number of 2-station scans: 420 Number of 3-station scans: 243 Number of 4-station scans: 78 Number of 5-station scans: 15 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 756 1767 =========================================================== 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: HARTRAO KOKEE MATERA 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: SESHAN25 Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:4 128.000 Mbits 64.000 MHz 8 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 4(*4) 16 80.00 X-band spanned bw= 300.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 115.8 MHz S-band spanned bw= 96.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 37.7 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 4.000 4.000 8.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1111+149 1.00 1.50 1.02 18 16 0821+394 1.00 1.50 1.08 19 13 1738+499 1.00 1.50 1.02 18 10 1012+232 1.00 1.50 1.13 20 14 0920+390 1.00 1.50 1.25 22 10 1800+440 1.00 1.50 1.47 26 9 1656+477 1.00 1.50 1.08 19 5 0833+585 1.00 1.50 1.64 29 7 1954+513 1.00 1.50 1.41 25 13 NRAO512 1.00 1.50 1.25 22 11 Total 12.34 218 108 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 1.00 FTFFF 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 Hh HARTRAO 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Kk KOKEE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Sh SESHAN25 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 Hh Kk Ma Sh Gc Hh Kk Ma Sh Hh 20 Hh 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15