Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1280 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 R1280 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-162-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-163-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007162 (2007.44) ( 14263 MJD, MON. 11JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 10:18:37.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 5h 18.2m 23d 5.4 =========================================================== 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 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 Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1057-797 07162-170000| 133 133 | 1357+769 07162-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| 3C371 07162-170116| 40 40 40 | 0110+495 07162-170247| 60 60 | 0727-115 07162-170307| 130 130 40 54| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0607-157 07163-165527| 85 85 | 0727-115 07163-165557| 54 54| 1921-293 07163-165639| 40 40 | 0823+033 07163-165732| 60 60 60| 1958-179 07163-165821| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1280.skd for experiment R1280 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.4 Min = .0 Max = 80.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1417+385) RMS = 11.8 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 38 30 46 26 56 42 51 44 42 % cal. time: 3 4 6 4 4 7 6 6 5 % slew time: 35 49 25 18 12 25 23 17 26 % idle time: 23 16 22 51 27 25 19 33 28 total # scans: 226 331 479 323 320 579 485 476 402 # scans/hour : 9 14 20 13 13 24 20 20 17 Avg scan (sec): 146 78 83 70 151 63 91 79 94 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1272 1053 1610 927 1851 1518 1766 1528 1441 Total GB(M5): 1131 936 1431 824 1645 1349 1570 1359 1281 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10245.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 7 14 30 112 9 87 87 346 Ho| 133 21 130 184 8 28 511 Kk| 154 93 355 214 127 1090 Ny| 22 199 232 246 904 Tc| 22 93 32 504 Ts| 198 242 1209 Wf| 288 1120 Wz| 1050 Number of 2-station scans: 596 Number of 3-station scans: 322 Number of 4-station scans: 160 Number of 5-station scans: 83 Number of 6-station scans: 1 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1162 3367 =========================================================== 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: 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 Recording mode setup for: KOKEE 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 2021+317 1.00 1.50 1.25 42 19 0917+624 1.00 1.50 1.96 66 12 0110+495 1.00 1.50 .80 27 21 1705+018 1.00 1.50 1.04 35 21 0955+326 1.00 1.50 2.14 72 16 NGC6454 1.00 1.50 .74 25 25 0256+075 1.00 1.50 .74 25 17 1639+230 1.00 1.50 1.49 50 17 1726+455 1.00 1.50 .74 25 25 Total 10.90 367 173 =========================================================== 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE 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 Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 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