Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1294 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 R1294 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-260-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-261-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007260 (2007.71) ( 14361 MJD, MON. 17SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:44:59.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 39.5m 2d 12.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information 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 Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz 0955+476 07260-170000| 40 40 40 40 40| 1749+096 07260-170215| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz 1308+326 07261-165632| 42 42 42| 0823+033 07261-165711| 125 125 | 1622-253 07261-165821| 47 47 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1294.skd for experiment R1294 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 13.2 Min = .0 Max = 58.8 (Baseline On-Wf on 0727-115) RMS = 15.4 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 18 28 26 40 43 36 32 % cal. time: 3 5 5 7 7 7 6 % slew time: 45 20 25 37 27 20 30 % idle time: 33 46 42 14 22 36 33 total # scans: 245 411 445 591 611 588 481 # scans/hour : 10 17 19 25 25 25 20 Avg scan (sec): 65 59 51 59 61 52 57 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 661 1017 975 1471 1554 1321 1167 Total GB(M5): 587 904 867 1307 1381 1175 1037 # of tapes : .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: .4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6221.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Kk Ny On Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Hh| 0 78 176 101 213 568 Kk| 228 210 379 186 1003 Ny| 385 346 347 1384 On| 380 525 1676 Wf| 348 1554 Wz| 1619 Number of 2-station scans: 262 Number of 3-station scans: 242 Number of 4-station scans: 184 Number of 5-station scans: 181 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 869 3902 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO KOKEE NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 0446+112 1.00 1.50 1.51 59 13 3C395 1.00 1.50 1.49 58 12 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.15 45 6 0836+710 1.00 1.50 1.69 66 7 0738+313 1.00 1.50 1.67 65 15 1502+036 1.00 1.50 .97 38 12 1213+350 1.00 1.50 1.18 46 10 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.15 45 9 2320+506 1.00 1.50 1.20 47 8 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 .69 27 17 Total 12.71 496 109 =========================================================== 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 F =========================================================== 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 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) Hh Kk Ny On Wf Hh Kk Ny On Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15