Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1302 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 R1302 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2007-316-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-317-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2007316 (2007.87) ( 14417 MJD, MON. 12NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20:25: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 9.9m -17d 43.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information 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 Ny Tc Ts Wz 1749+096 07316-170000| 129 58 151 151 151| 1418+546 07316-170312| 45 45| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wz 2052-474 07317-165413| 200 200 200 | 1044+719 07317-165525| 40 40 40| 0749+540 07317-165643| 40 40 40| 0642+449 07317-165754| 40 40 40| 0955+476 07317-165915| 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1302.skd for experiment R1302 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 130.9 (Baseline Tc-Ts on NRAO512 ) RMS = 17.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg % obs. time: 44 29 18 48 25 35 33 % cal. time: 3 3 3 3 5 6 4 % slew time: 41 52 16 10 15 14 25 % idle time: 11 16 62 38 54 44 38 total # scans: 279 256 285 286 423 499 338 # scans/hour : 12 11 12 12 18 21 14 Avg scan (sec): 135 97 54 144 51 61 90 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1459 988 659 1586 923 1272 1148 Total GB(M5): 1297 878 586 1410 821 1131 1021 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6123.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ft| 182 54 235 14 136 621 Hh| 40 168 49 139 578 Ny| 30 243 273 640 Tc| 37 97 567 Ts| 366 709 Wz| 1011 Number of 2-station scans: 245 Number of 3-station scans: 346 Number of 4-station scans: 110 Number of 5-station scans: 12 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 713 2063 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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: HARTRAO NYALES20 TIGOCONC 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 FFFTF 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Ft Hh Ny Tc Ts Hh 20 Hh 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15