Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1312 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 R1312 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-022-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-023-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008022 (2008.06) ( 14488 MJD, TUES 22JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 1: 5: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 20h 17.2m -19d 42.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Badary 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 Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0235+164 08022-170000| 78 169 111 102 169 129 56| 1606+106 08022-170328| 180 180 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 3C371 08023-164503| 41 83 97 97 80| 0202-172 08023-164822| 200 200 105| OJ287 08023-165304| 40 40 41 41| 1418+546 08023-165451| 54 54| 0637-752 08023-165530| 106 106 | 0059+581 08023-165644| 67 67| OK290 08023-165645| 40 64 64 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1312.skd for experiment R1312 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 53.3 (Baseline Bd-Wz on 0202-172) RMS = 9.7 Total time: 1438 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: 12 38 27 33 38 29 36 33 31 % cal. time: 2 3 2 5 5 2 4 5 4 % slew time: 29 41 44 25 32 6 15 15 26 % idle time: 56 18 25 36 24 63 44 45 39 total # scans: 182 258 215 418 458 153 327 446 307 # scans/hour : 8 11 9 17 19 6 14 19 13 Avg scan (sec): 58 126 110 68 71 162 96 64 93 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 445 1266 927 1174 1339 949 1243 1188 1066 Total GB(M5): 395 1126 824 1043 1190 844 1105 1056 948 # 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: 7582.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 20 48 150 139 0 90 141 588 Ft| 117 47 63 119 141 72 579 Hh| 61 81 58 52 115 532 Ny| 344 20 191 300 1113 On| 27 164 376 1194 Tc| 83 30 337 Wf| 156 877 Wz| 1190 Number of 2-station scans: 299 Number of 3-station scans: 240 Number of 4-station scans: 116 Number of 5-station scans: 86 Number of 6-station scans: 35 Number of 7-station scans: 5 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 781 3205 =========================================================== 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 1508-055 1.00 1.50 0.78 25 13 2021+614 1.00 1.50 1.78 57 15 0829+046 1.00 1.50 0.69 22 8 1633+38 1.00 1.50 1.93 62 9 0917+624 1.00 1.50 1.97 63 10 1130+009 1.00 1.50 1.00 32 8 0109+224 1.00 1.50 1.68 54 14 0202-172 1.00 1.50 0.69 22 10 0446+112 1.00 1.50 1.44 46 10 2134+00 1.00 1.50 1.19 38 20 Total 13.14 421 117 =========================================================== 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 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