Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1276 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 R1276 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-134-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-135-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007134 (2007.37) ( 14235 MJD, MON. 14MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 8:28:13.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 3h 24.6m 18d 39.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information This session has mixed bandwidths since Fortaleza is included. Fortaleza is using 4 MHz. Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== 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 Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 07134-170000| 122 40 122 40 57| 1749+096 07134-170000| 40 40 | 3C418 07134-170206| 67 40 79 79| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1240+381 07135-165000| 129 129 54 129| 0104-408 07135-165146| 200 200 | CTA26 07135-165242| 200 200 | 1237-101 07135-165521| 200 200| 0208-512 07135-165635| 132 132 | 2356+385 07135-165659| 83 83 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1276.skd for experiment R1276 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.2 Min = .0 Max = 110.8 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 1240+381) RMS = 11.8 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 44 33 30 25 51 35 49 45 39 % cal. time: 3 3 4 3 3 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 36 51 53 16 10 23 21 16 29 % idle time: 16 12 12 55 35 36 24 33 28 total # scans: 256 282 350 260 273 484 426 407 342 # scans/hour : 11 12 15 11 11 20 18 17 14 Avg scan (sec): 150 100 73 82 162 62 99 96 102 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1474 1115 1047 865 1691 1255 1674 1555 1335 Total GB(M5): 1310 991 931 769 1503 1115 1488 1382 1186 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9490.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 95 6 54 125 17 135 96 528 Hh| 79 45 72 52 49 140 532 Ho| 24 84 221 24 19 457 Ny| 26 168 198 195 710 Tc| 29 93 52 481 Ts| 191 192 870 Wf| 244 934 Wz| 938 Number of 2-station scans: 532 Number of 3-station scans: 300 Number of 4-station scans: 138 Number of 5-station scans: 36 Number of 6-station scans: 7 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1013 2725 =========================================================== 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 .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: HARTRAO NYALES20 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: HOBART26 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 1236-684 1.00 1.50 .29 8 8 1502+106 1.00 1.50 1.43 39 13 1237-101 1.00 1.50 .77 21 19 2029+121 1.00 1.50 1.10 30 12 1656+477 1.00 1.50 1.80 49 17 0836+710 1.00 1.50 1.72 47 10 1538+149 1.00 1.50 1.94 53 18 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 1.28 35 10 1240+381 1.00 1.50 1.43 39 13 3C147 1.00 1.50 1.58 43 11 Total 13.36 364 131 =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 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) Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 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