Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1299 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 R1299 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-295-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-296-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007295 (2007.81) ( 14396 MJD, MON. 22OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19: 2: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 47.5m -11d 5.2 =========================================================== 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 1124-186 07295-170000| 200 200 200 200 | 1357+769 07295-170000| 88 88 53 88| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 3C418 07296-164857| 125 125| 4C39.25 07296-165114| 40 40 40 40 | 0059+581 07296-165258| 40 40 40 40| 0235+164 07296-165437| 40 40 40 40 40| 1622-253 07296-165510| 200 200 | 3C371 07296-165627| 40 40 40| OJ287 07296-165821| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1299.skd for experiment R1299 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 16.3 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: 39 31 41 27 60 35 44 40 40 % cal. time: 3 4 6 4 4 7 5 6 5 % slew time: 34 45 26 21 13 26 21 16 26 % idle time: 23 19 26 47 22 31 29 37 30 total # scans: 242 335 479 370 360 622 474 513 424 # scans/hour : 10 14 20 15 15 26 20 21 18 Avg scan (sec): 138 80 75 64 144 48 80 67 86 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1291 1083 1461 984 1990 1297 1530 1428 1383 Total GB(M5): 1148 962 1299 875 1769 1153 1360 1269 1229 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.6 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 9835.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 9 53 65 163 17 159 131 597 Ho| 164 27 145 198 21 39 603 Kk| 173 154 345 274 182 1345 Ny| 33 298 240 313 1149 Tc| 31 177 70 773 Ts| 257 373 1519 Wf| 299 1427 Wz| 1407 Number of 2-station scans: 295 Number of 3-station scans: 340 Number of 4-station scans: 245 Number of 5-station scans: 155 Number of 6-station scans: 5 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1040 4410 =========================================================== 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 0.01 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 0.01 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 0.01 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 There were no monitoring sources scheduled during this session. =========================================================== 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