Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1258 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2007.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1258 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-009-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-010-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007009 (2007.02) ( 14110 MJD, TUES 9JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 0:15:24.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 22.5m -22d 5.1 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Westford were tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kk Ny On Ts Wf Wz 1739+522 07009-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40| 0955+476 07009-170142| 40 40 40 | 2253+417 07009-170145| 153 153 60| =========================================================== Last observations name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kk Ny On Ts Wf Wz 2126-158 07010-165404| 200 200 200| 1128+385 07010-165451| 75 75 40 | OK290 07010-165642| 172 147 172 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1258.skd for experiment R1258 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 11.6 Min = .0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 2355-106) RMS = 13.2 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Hh Kk Ny On Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 21 37 32 47 37 20 40 33 % cal. time: 3 5 5 6 7 3 6 5 % slew time: 44 21 23 33 27 11 17 26 % idle time: 31 35 39 13 27 65 35 36 total # scans: 240 467 450 539 631 262 539 446 # scans/hour : 10 19 19 22 26 11 22 19 Avg scan (sec): 74 69 61 76 51 67 64 65 Total GBytes: 729 1327 1144 1666 1388 726 1440 1203 Total GB(M5): 648 1179 1017 1481 1234 645 1280 1069 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7483.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Kk Ny On Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Hh| 0 76 142 84 45 188 535 Kk| 225 210 438 164 190 1227 Ny| 415 321 204 370 1611 On| 330 226 464 1787 Ts| 177 285 1635 Wf| 213 1029 Wz| 1710 Number of 2-station scans: 323 Number of 3-station scans: 161 Number of 4-station scans: 161 Number of 5-station scans: 157 Number of 6-station scans: 95 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 897 4767 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 .01 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 140.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.9 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 .01 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 140.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.9 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 0502+049 1.00 1.50 .78 37 20 1633+38 1.00 1.50 1.74 83 10 0833+585 1.00 1.50 1.38 66 7 0748+126 1.00 1.50 1.26 60 13 1055+018 1.00 1.50 .82 39 13 0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.97 94 12 1546+027 1.00 1.50 .73 35 13 1354+195 1.00 1.50 .73 35 16 2355-106 1.00 1.50 .71 34 20 2253+417 1.00 1.50 1.64 78 9 Total 11.77 561 133 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Hh Kk Ny On Ts Wf Hh Kk Ny On Ts Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15