Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1310 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2008.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1310 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-007-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-008-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008007 (2008.02) ( 14473 MJD, MON. 7JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 0: 6: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 12.7m -22d 23.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information Wettzell is scheduled to participate in the SELENE observations during this session. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf 2145+067 08007-170000| 58 200 40 200 58 | 0133+476 08007-170421| 83 42 57 40 83| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf 0208-512 08008-165347| 188 142 188 | 0602+673 08008-165433| 200 132 200 200| 0212+735 08008-165845| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1310.skd for experiment R1310 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.1 Min = 0.0 Max = 110.8 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 13.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Avg % obs. time: 40 24 40 40 46 28 40 37 % cal. time: 3 3 5 5 3 5 4 4 % slew time: 42 45 31 25 10 17 17 27 % idle time: 13 28 24 29 40 49 37 32 total # scans: 264 220 389 453 273 389 381 338 # scans/hour : 11 9 16 19 11 16 16 14 Avg scan (sec): 131 93 89 76 145 63 91 98 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1344 819 1389 1404 1523 1016 1390 1269 Total GB(M5): 1194 728 1235 1248 1353 903 1235 1128 # 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: 7897.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 133 122 81 198 8 141 683 Hh| 140 76 99 49 56 553 Ma| 310 82 205 206 1065 Ny| 55 311 273 1106 Tc| 42 141 617 Ts| 181 796 Wf| 998 Number of 2-station scans: 242 Number of 3-station scans: 259 Number of 4-station scans: 175 Number of 5-station scans: 72 Number of 6-station scans: 8 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 756 2909 =========================================================== 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 MATERA NYALES20 TIGOCONC WESTFORD 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 Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 1244-255 1.00 1.50 0.45 13 11 1144+402 1.00 1.50 1.51 44 12 0754+100 1.00 1.50 1.79 52 15 0707+476 1.00 1.50 1.62 47 15 0919-260 1.00 1.50 0.65 19 10 1738+499 1.00 1.50 1.44 42 12 1546+027 1.00 1.50 1.44 42 10 0212+735 1.00 1.50 2.10 61 12 0039+230 1.00 1.50 1.07 31 12 0422+004 1.00 1.50 0.93 27 8 Total 12.99 378 117 =========================================================== 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 FF =========================================================== 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 Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Hh 20 Hh 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 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