Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1311 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 R1311 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-014-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-015-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008014 (2008.04) ( 14480 MJD, MON. 14JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 0:34: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 43.1m -21d 19.5 =========================================================== Important Station Information Badary and Wettzell were 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 Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 2136+141 08014-170000| 200 194 180 200 197 101| 1606+106 08014-170420| 177 177 | 0119+041 08014-170425| 40 40 40| 0133+476 08014-170606| 40 63 63 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 1417+385 08015-164953| 40 49 105 105 | 2052-474 08015-165204| 73 73 | 0552+398 08015-165253| 40 40 40| 2134+00 08015-165516| 40 40 | 1741-038 08015-165523| 53 155 155 | 1633+38 08015-165842| 40 40 40 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1311.skd for experiment R1311 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Hh-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 11.0 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Bd=BADARY Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 11 39 26 40 41 33 40 30 33 % cal. time: 2 3 3 5 5 2 4 4 3 % slew time: 25 40 44 26 27 7 15 13 25 % idle time: 62 16 26 28 26 57 40 52 39 total # scans: 152 270 219 433 399 177 329 355 291 # scans/hour : 6 11 9 18 17 7 14 15 12 Avg scan (sec): 60 126 104 80 89 161 104 73 99 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 385 1325 897 1407 1427 1092 1353 1062 1118 Total GB(M5): 342 1178 797 1250 1268 971 1202 944 994 # 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: 7952.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 13 34 147 131 0 64 110 499 Ft| 137 57 78 143 156 83 667 Hh| 83 98 72 70 118 612 Ny| 361 29 198 306 1181 On| 39 162 315 1184 Tc| 104 41 428 Wf| 146 900 Wz| 1119 Number of 2-station scans: 185 Number of 3-station scans: 251 Number of 4-station scans: 130 Number of 5-station scans: 77 Number of 6-station scans: 37 Number of 7-station scans: 12 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 692 3295 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: BADARY HARTRAO NYALES20 ONSALA60 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 Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 2030+547 1.00 1.50 0.33 11 5 1508-055 1.00 1.50 0.42 14 6 4C67.05 1.00 1.50 2.09 69 8 0109+224 1.00 1.50 1.31 43 14 0917+624 1.00 1.50 2.88 95 11 0829+046 1.00 1.50 0.94 31 7 1633+38 1.00 1.50 1.94 64 12 0446+112 1.00 1.50 0.85 28 7 1130+009 1.00 1.50 1.18 39 9 2134+00 1.00 1.50 1.06 35 15 Total 13.02 429 94 =========================================================== 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 TFF =========================================================== 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 Bd BADARY Mark5A Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC 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) Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Ft 20 Ft 15 Hh 20 20 Hh 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15