Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1283 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 R1283 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-183-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-184-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007183 (2007.50) ( 14284 MJD, MON. 2JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 11:41:24.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 6h 45.4m 23d 1.6 =========================================================== 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 Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 07183-170000| 40 40 | 1633+38 07183-170000| 40 40 40 40| 1958-179 07183-170142| 40 40 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Wz 3C418 07184-165619| 81 40 83 83| 1424-418 07184-165748| 86 86 | 0048-097 07184-165814| 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1283.skd for experiment R1283 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.2 Min = .0 Max = 87.3 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0607-157) RMS = 11.8 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 33 30 24 24 35 49 39 33 % cal. time: 3 4 4 3 7 5 5 5 % slew time: 37 56 53 17 27 21 17 33 % idle time: 25 10 17 54 30 23 37 29 total # scans: 266 337 379 287 578 454 452 393 # scans/hour : 11 14 16 12 24 19 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 108 76 55 73 52 94 75 75 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1133 1041 883 862 1287 1693 1377 1182 Total GB(M5): 1007 925 785 767 1144 1504 1224 1051 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7356.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 123 7 23 3 144 77 377 Hh| 104 45 65 46 157 540 Ho| 22 298 16 25 472 Ny| 198 204 229 721 Ts| 201 209 974 Wf| 245 856 Wz| 942 Number of 2-station scans: 649 Number of 3-station scans: 272 Number of 4-station scans: 151 Number of 5-station scans: 7 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1079 2441 =========================================================== 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 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 0831+557 1.00 1.50 1.64 40 12 0400-319 1.00 1.50 .70 17 15 1656+053 1.00 1.50 1.47 36 14 0912+029 1.00 1.50 1.56 38 12 OQ172 1.00 1.50 1.31 32 20 2150+173 1.00 1.50 .94 23 12 1830+285 1.00 1.50 .74 18 18 1633+38 1.00 1.50 2.17 53 11 3C309.1 1.00 1.50 2.01 49 10 2351+456 1.00 1.50 2.25 55 17 Total 14.79 361 141 =========================================================== 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 FFFFF FF =========================================================== 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 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 Ts Wf Ft Hh Ho Ny Ts Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15