Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1273 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 R1273 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-113-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-114-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007113 (2007.31) ( 14214 MJD, MON. 23APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7: 5:26.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 3.8m 12d 34.1 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was 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 Ts Wf Wz 0607-157 07113-170000| 40 147 147 70 61| 2234+282 07113-170000| 40 40 | 1908-201 07113-170214| 40 40 | 2320+506 07113-170328| 40 79 79 79| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Mc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 0003-066 07114-165505| 200 200 | 1727+502 07114-165604| 200 200 | 0642+449 07114-165640| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1273.skd for experiment R1273 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.3 Min = .0 Max = 67.0 (Baseline Tc-Wf on 1424-418) RMS = 10.3 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Kk=KOKEE Mc=MEDICINA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Kk Mc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 51 40 29 50 39 45 53 42 44 % cal. time: 5 5 4 5 3 5 5 5 5 % slew time: 24 39 19 27 9 20 18 13 21 % idle time: 19 15 47 17 49 28 23 39 30 total # scans: 446 455 343 446 244 458 401 467 407 # scans/hour : 19 19 14 19 10 19 17 19 17 Avg scan (sec): 99 77 73 97 138 86 115 78 94 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1745 1422 1027 1723 1298 1578 1799 1473 1508 Total GB(M5): 1551 1264 913 1532 1154 1403 1599 1309 1341 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10724.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Kk Mc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Kk| 62 102 76 132 269 145 85 871 Mc| 227 313 30 206 166 347 1351 Ny| 295 18 156 186 284 1268 On| 27 157 204 386 1458 Tc| 17 128 24 376 Ts| 122 150 1077 Wf| 203 1154 Wz| 1479 Number of 2-station scans: 498 Number of 3-station scans: 203 Number of 4-station scans: 145 Number of 5-station scans: 101 Number of 6-station scans: 60 Number of 7-station scans: 30 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1037 4517 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: KOKEE MEDICINA NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC 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 M81 1.00 1.50 .29 13 13 1616+063 1.00 1.50 .64 29 23 1155+251 1.00 1.50 .20 9 9 2254+024 1.00 1.50 .29 13 13 1727+502 1.00 1.50 .66 30 30 1221+809 1.00 1.50 .49 22 12 1600+335 1.00 1.50 1.08 49 15 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.62 73 16 1510-089 1.00 1.50 .97 44 15 2320+506 1.00 1.50 1.48 67 9 Total 7.73 349 155 =========================================================== 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 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) Kk Mc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Kk Mc Ny On Tc Ts Wf 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 Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 15