Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1282 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 R1282 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-176-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-177-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007176 (2007.48) ( 14277 MJD, MON. 25JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 11:13:49.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 6h 16.4m 23d 23.1 =========================================================== 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 0059+581 07176-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| 0405-385 07176-170000| 200 200 | 4C39.25 07176-170143| 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0537-441 07177-165413| 200 200 | 1044+719 07177-165432| 86 40 86 | 0716+714 07177-165634| 40 40 | 1749+096 07177-165646| 40 40 40| 1156+295 07177-165823| 47 47| 1741-038 07177-165843| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1282.skd for experiment R1282 (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 = 84.7 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0607-157) RMS = 12.0 Total time: 1440 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: 42 31 42 25 57 33 53 42 41 % cal. time: 3 4 6 4 4 7 5 5 5 % slew time: 36 52 26 20 12 27 21 18 27 % idle time: 18 12 25 50 27 32 20 34 28 total # scans: 256 367 486 324 327 584 458 460 407 # scans/hour : 11 15 20 14 14 24 19 19 17 Avg scan (sec): 143 72 75 67 150 49 99 78 91 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1409 1089 1483 895 1887 1242 1805 1465 1409 Total GB(M5): 1252 968 1318 796 1677 1104 1604 1302 1253 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10021.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 5 24 43 140 12 112 101 437 Ho| 189 16 127 238 13 18 606 Kk| 151 101 351 210 104 1130 Ny| 20 216 207 243 896 Tc| 23 103 32 546 Ts| 164 233 1237 Wf| 259 1068 Wz| 990 Number of 2-station scans: 524 Number of 3-station scans: 392 Number of 4-station scans: 165 Number of 5-station scans: 72 Number of 6-station scans: 3 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1156 3455 =========================================================== 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 0829+046 1.00 1.50 1.10 38 17 1937-101 1.00 1.50 .81 28 20 0426+273 1.00 1.50 .96 33 19 1342+663 1.00 1.50 1.33 46 14 1758+388 1.00 1.50 1.42 49 20 0248+430 1.00 1.50 1.51 52 14 0716+714 1.00 1.50 1.30 45 13 1546+027 1.00 1.50 1.56 54 17 0007+171 1.00 1.50 .98 34 20 2335-027 1.00 1.50 .98 34 22 Total 11.95 413 176 =========================================================== 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