Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1301 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 R1301 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-309-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-310-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007309 (2007.85) ( 14410 MJD, MON. 5NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:58: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 41.8m -15d 42.5 =========================================================== 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 Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0235+164 07309-170000| 40 40 40 40| 1334-127 07309-170000| 89 60 109 109 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1749+096 07310-165634| 126 149 149 63 149| 0537-441 07310-165643| 40 40 40 | 0454-234 07310-165846| 40 40 40 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1301.skd for experiment R1301 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.6 Min = 0.0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1958-179) RMS = 16.9 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 29 36 23 60 33 40 37 38 % cal. time: 3 4 5 4 4 7 5 5 5 % slew time: 41 45 24 19 13 24 20 14 26 % idle time: 13 21 33 53 22 35 34 42 32 total # scans: 287 359 458 335 382 599 448 463 416 # scans/hour : 12 15 19 14 16 25 19 19 17 Avg scan (sec): 126 70 69 59 135 47 78 70 81 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1406 1036 1296 834 1997 1227 1419 1329 1318 Total GB(M5): 1249 921 1152 741 1775 1091 1261 1182 1171 # 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: 9371.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 14 75 86 236 17 218 148 794 Ho| 219 26 118 250 28 30 685 Kk| 127 177 305 204 118 1225 Ny| 61 252 209 278 1039 Tc| 38 232 111 973 Ts| 194 308 1364 Wf| 277 1362 Wz| 1270 Number of 2-station scans: 223 Number of 3-station scans: 388 Number of 4-station scans: 258 Number of 5-station scans: 122 Number of 6-station scans: 12 Number of 7-station scans: 1 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1004 4356 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 =========================================================== No Monitoring Sources were observed 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