Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1306
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2007.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Parameter values for experiment R1306
Experiment description: IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule
Nominal start: 2007-344-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2007-345-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2007344 (2007.94) ( 14445 MJD, MON. 10DEC.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 22:16: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 8.9m -22d 55.1
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Important Station Information
Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session.
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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.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz
1803+784 07344-170000| 128 128 40 40 40 45|
CTA26 07344-170149| 49 40 49|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz
1034-293 07345-164859| 61 61 40 |
1611+343 07345-165133| 50 40 44 50 46|
1128+385 07345-165313| 40 40 40 40 |
1749+096 07345-165458| 40 40 40|
1357+769 07345-165656| 40 40 40 40 40|
1308+326 07345-165827| 67 67 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1306.skd for experiment R1306
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.5
Min = 0.0 Max = 54.7 (Baseline Ho-Wz on CTA26 ) RMS = 11.5
Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32
Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL
Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Avg
% obs. time: 29 19 40 29 34 47 39 34
% cal. time: 3 3 6 4 7 6 5 5
% slew time: 34 36 26 19 26 22 15 26
% idle time: 34 40 28 47 32 24 39 35
total # scans: 247 278 480 337 570 481 433 403
# scans/hour : 10 12 20 14 24 20 18 17
Avg scan (sec): 100 60 71 73 52 85 79 74
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 976 702 1407 1008 1275 1647 1384 1200
Total GB(M5): 867 624 1251 896 1133 1464 1230 1067
# of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 0.5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7465.7
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz StnTotal
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Ft| 10 62 96 34 212 164 578
Ho| 195 27 238 20 30 520
Kk| 199 398 255 186 1295
Ny| 244 275 259 1100
Ts| 263 266 1443
Wf| 315 1340
Wz| 1220
Number of 2-station scans: 196
Number of 3-station scans: 312
Number of 4-station scans: 211
Number of 5-station scans: 114
Number of 6-station scans: 14
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 847 3748
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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 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
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There were no Monitoring Sources scheduled during this session.
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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 FF
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Major Options
SkyCov Yes
Min_Between 20
Best% 60.0
Last_Hrs 1.00
Add_ps 30.00
Obs_Wts SNRwt
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Ho HOBART26 Mark5A
Kk KOKEE Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A
Wf WESTFORD Mark5A
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3)
Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Ft Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf
Ho 20 Ho 15
Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15
Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15