Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1204 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 R1204 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-361-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-362-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005361 (2005.99) ( 13732 MJD, TUES 27DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23:25: 6.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 18h 26.3m -23d 18.0 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. =========================================================== 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 period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Gc Ma Sv Tc Wz 1611+343 05361-170000| 269 40 40 269 69| 0642+449 05361-170332| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Gc Ma Sv Tc Wz 0602+673 05362-164947| 65 65 40 40| 1954-388 05362-165004| 88 88 | 1128+385 05362-165250| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1204.skd for experiment R1204 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 6.9 Min = .0 Max = 47.6 (Baseline Ma-Wz on 1143-245) RMS = 8.5 Total time: 1434 minutes ( 23.9 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Gc=GILCREEK Ma=MATERA Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Wz=WETTZELL Ft Gc Ma Sv Tc Wz Avg % obs. time: 50 40 45 28 47 37 41 % cal. time: 3 4 4 4 2 4 3 % slew time: 33 18 26 50 7 10 24 % idle time: 14 38 25 16 43 48 31 total # scans: 228 306 340 375 187 339 295 # scans/hour : 9.5 12.8 14.2 15.7 7.8 14.2 12.4 Avg scan (sec): 187 111 114 65 216 95 130 Total GBytes: 1617 1337 1515 1014 1522 1278 1380 Total GB(M5): 1437 1188 1346 902 1353 1136 1227 # of tapes : 2.7 2.5 2.5 1.6 2.6 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0109 0200 0215 0846 0225 0553 1059 1117 1155 0000 1148 1618 Total number of tapes: 14.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7362.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Gc Ma Sv Tc Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------- Ft|228 45 80 67 156 71 419 Gc| 306 170 253 39 185 692 Ma| 340 271 34 306 861 Sv| 375 22 271 884 Tc| 187 29 280 Wz| 339 862 Number of 2-station scans: 299 Number of 3-station scans: 113 Number of 4-station scans: 171 Number of 5-station scans: 20 Number of 6-station scans: 9 Total # of scans, observations: 612 1999 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 64.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 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: 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 SVETLOE 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1706-174 1.00 1.50 .90 18 9 0414-189 1.00 1.50 .35 7 3 0611+131 1.00 1.50 .45 9 3 0833+585 1.00 1.50 1.75 35 9 1111+149 1.00 1.50 .80 16 8 1717+178 1.00 1.50 1.25 25 11 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 1.10 22 7 1502+036 1.00 1.50 1.00 20 12 0430+289 1.00 1.50 1.55 31 10 1143-245 1.00 1.50 .65 13 13 Total 9.80 196 85 =========================================================== 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 FFFFT 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 Ft FORTLEZA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Gc GILCREEK 17400feet (Thin ) 56700 (HIGH ) 12 Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Sv SVETLOE 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 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) Ft Gc Ma Sv Tc Ft Gc Ma Sv Tc Gc 20 Gc 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Sv 20 20 20 Sv 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 Wz 15 15 15 15 12