Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1293 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 R1293 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-253-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-254-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007253 (2007.69) ( 14354 MJD, MON. 10SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:17:23.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 14.4m 4d 53.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 0727-115 07253-170000| 40 40 40 | 2136+141 07253-170000| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 0919-260 07254-165705| 69 69 | 2134+00 07254-165742| 40 40| 2136+141 07254-165858| 40 40 40 40| 0537-441 07254-165906| 44 44 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1293.skd for experiment R1293 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 13.6 Min = .0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ny-Wf on 1749+096) RMS = 15.9 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 51 31 46 48 35 47 41 43 % cal. time: 6 5 7 4 7 6 7 6 % slew time: 26 23 34 11 25 22 17 23 % idle time: 16 40 12 36 32 24 34 28 total # scans: 557 470 611 322 607 515 585 523 # scans/hour : 23 20 25 13 25 21 24 22 Avg scan (sec): 78 56 65 129 50 80 61 73 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1774 1123 1639 1614 1301 1662 1488 1514 Total GB(M5): 1577 998 1457 1434 1157 1477 1323 1346 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9423.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Kk| 138 122 205 341 222 103 1131 Ny| 427 16 297 231 381 1490 On| 28 326 260 534 1697 Tc| 31 178 40 498 Ts| 197 287 1479 Wf| 243 1331 Wz| 1588 Number of 2-station scans: 523 Number of 3-station scans: 288 Number of 4-station scans: 240 Number of 5-station scans: 85 Number of 6-station scans: 62 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1198 4607 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: KOKEE 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 0919-260 1.00 1.50 .54 25 25 1936-155 1.00 1.50 .63 29 29 1656+053 1.00 1.50 1.11 51 15 0609+607 1.00 1.50 1.02 47 13 1928+738 1.00 1.50 1.76 81 6 0039+230 1.00 1.50 1.24 57 18 1244-255 1.00 1.50 .59 27 27 0657+172 1.00 1.50 1.19 55 22 1308+328 1.00 1.50 1.22 56 11 Total 9.29 428 166 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF 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 Kk KOKEE 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 Ny On Tc Ts Wf Kk Ny On Tc Ts Wf Ny 20 Ny 15 On 20 20 On 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15