Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1265 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 R1265 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-057-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-058-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007057 (2007.16) ( 14158 MJD, MON. 26FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 3:24:38.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 22h 37.6m -8d 40.6 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya 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 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Mc Ny On Tc Wf Wz Zc 1739+522 07057-170000| 40 40 40 40 40 40 | 1749+096 07057-170202| 40 81 81 | OJ287 07057-170304| 40 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Mc Ny On Tc Wf Wz Zc 0235+164 07058-164619| 44 154 200 200 119 101 66| 1611+343 07058-164932| 40 40 | 0457+024 07058-165035| 152 161 161 161| 1749+096 07058-165226| 40 81 81 | 1741-038 07058-165423| 83 200 200 | 1022+194 07058-165513| 200 200 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1265.skd for experiment R1265 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.9 Min = .0 Max = 56.8 (Baseline Kk-Tc on 0607-157) RMS = 10.7 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Kk=KOKEE Mc=MEDICINA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Kk Mc Ny On Tc Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 47 39 27 50 48 53 39 16 40 % cal. time: 5 5 4 5 3 5 5 3 5 % slew time: 20 41 19 26 9 19 12 34 23 % idle time: 28 13 49 18 38 21 43 46 32 total # scans: 390 473 366 456 292 463 463 229 391 # scans/hour : 16 20 15 19 12 19 19 10 16 Avg scan (sec): 104 72 65 94 141 99 73 60 87 Total GBytes: 1594 1394 982 1707 1587 1823 1383 578 1381 Total GB(M5): 1417 1239 873 1518 1410 1621 1229 514 1228 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9821.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Kk Mc Ny On Tc Wf Wz Zc StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Kk| 88 166 121 192 252 124 63 1006 Mc| 247 386 43 192 392 187 1535 Ny| 291 36 243 278 155 1416 On| 33 219 340 197 1587 Tc| 178 42 17 541 Wf| 221 109 1414 Wz| 188 1585 Zc| 916 Number of 2-station scans: 294 Number of 3-station scans: 198 Number of 4-station scans: 155 Number of 5-station scans: 114 Number of 6-station scans: 82 Number of 7-station scans: 36 Number of 8-station scans: 2 Total # of scans, observations: 881 5000 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: KOKEE MEDICINA NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL ZELENCHK 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1219+285 1.00 1.50 .36 18 18 0215+015 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1926+087 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1416+067 1.00 1.50 .44 22 18 1022+194 1.00 1.50 .28 14 14 1432+200 1.00 1.50 .00 0 0 1445-161 1.00 1.50 .22 11 9 1732+389 1.00 1.50 1.68 84 11 0457+024 1.00 1.50 1.12 56 12 2254+074 1.00 1.50 .70 35 25 Total 4.80 240 107 =========================================================== 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 FFF =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Mc MEDICINA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Kk Mc Ny On Tc Wf Wz Kk Mc Ny On Tc Wf Wz Mc 20 Mc 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 12 15 15