Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1195 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 R1195 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2005-297-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-298-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005297 (2005.81) ( 13668 MJD, MON. 24OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:12:46.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 56.9m -11d 57.3 =========================================================== 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 two hour period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz 1611+343 05297-170000| 40 122 122 47| 0642+449 05297-170310| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz 1611+343 05298-163320| 40 122 49 122 46| 3C138 05298-163624| 200 200 200 | 1308+326 05298-163629| 40 40| 1741-038 05298-163904| 40 40| 1324+224 05298-164112| 85 85| 1011+250 05298-164207| 40 40 | 1044+719 05298-164355| 40 40 40 40 40| 3C371 05298-164536| 108 108 45 107| 1300+580 05298-164825| 87 94 41 94| 4C39.25 05298-165046| 40 40 40 | 1749+096 05298-165142| 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1195.skd for experiment R1195 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.6 Min = .0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Gc-Wz on 0106+013) RMS = 11.1 Total time: 1433 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 47 42 25 18 35 41 34 % cal. time: 6 5 3 1 6 6 4 % slew time: 27 32 16 3 21 14 19 % idle time: 20 20 55 77 38 39 42 total # scans: 495 444 296 105 485 483 384 # scans/hour : 20.7 18.6 12.4 4.4 20.3 20.2 16.1 Avg scan (sec): 81 81 72 143 62 73 84 Total GBytes: 1619 1460 874 580 1249 1438 1203 Total GB(M5): 1439 1298 777 515 1111 1279 1070 # of tapes : 3.0 2.3 1.4 1.0 2.0 2.3 tape change times (hhmm): 0116 0317 1048 0000 0552 0412 0949 1352 0000 0000 0000 1417 Total number of tapes: 12.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6418.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Gc|495 194 234 47 388 251 1114 Ma| 444 197 45 209 392 1037 Ny| 296 22 203 227 883 Tc| 105 27 34 175 Ts| 485 238 1065 Wz| 483 1142 Number of 2-station scans: 363 Number of 3-station scans: 177 Number of 4-station scans: 144 Number of 5-station scans: 95 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 779 2708 =========================================================== 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: MATERA NYALES20 TIGOCONC 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 1557+032 1.00 1.50 .52 14 14 1216+487 1.00 1.50 1.40 38 7 0738+313 1.00 1.50 1.11 30 12 0317+188 1.00 1.50 1.07 29 15 0212+735 1.00 1.50 1.96 53 6 3C138 1.00 1.50 1.44 39 17 1324+224 1.00 1.50 1.07 29 12 0850+581 1.00 1.50 1.22 33 6 1011+250 1.00 1.50 .70 19 13 1738+476 1.00 1.50 1.66 45 12 Total 12.15 329 114 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF 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 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 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 Gc Ma Ny Tc Ts 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 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15