Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1313
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2008.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Parameter values for experiment R1313
Experiment description: IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule.
Nominal start: 2008-028-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-029-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2008028 (2008.08) ( 14494 MJD, MON. 28JAN.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 1:29: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 20h 42.2m -18d 13.8
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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.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz
0235+164 08028-170000| 160 159 151 142 160 81|
1606+106 08028-170359| 200 200 200 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz
1921-293 08029-165204| 40 40 |
0003-066 08029-165227| 200 200 |
1038+52A 08029-165258| 116 116 |
0014+813 08029-165317| 40 40|
0642+449 08029-165608| 40 40 40 40|
1128+385 08029-165802| 40 40 40|
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SKED Summary from file ./r1313.skd for experiment R1313
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.6
Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 13.0
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO
Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL
Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg
% obs. time: 36 25 36 38 37 32 38 32 34
% cal. time: 3 3 5 6 3 5 5 5 4
% slew time: 42 52 39 30 9 21 20 16 29
% idle time: 17 19 19 25 51 42 37 45 32
total # scans: 286 259 462 508 216 437 408 465 380
# scans/hour : 12 11 19 21 9 18 17 19 16
Avg scan (sec): 110 84 68 64 148 63 81 60 84
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1236 873 1300 1362 1226 1142 1330 1172 1205
Total GB(M5): 1098 776 1155 1211 1090 1015 1183 1042 1071
# 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: 8571.1
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal
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Ft| 118 63 39 143 13 145 58 579
Hh| 138 53 72 63 43 117 604
Ma| 278 26 187 143 403 1238
Ny| 13 306 230 311 1230
Tc| 38 79 24 395
Ts| 151 189 947
Wf| 165 956
Wz| 1267
Number of 2-station scans: 482
Number of 3-station scans: 287
Number of 4-station scans: 143
Number of 5-station scans: 84
Number of 6-station scans: 35
Number of 7-station scans: 2
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 1033 3608
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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 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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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans
2030+547 1.00 1.50 1.03 37 17
1633+38 1.00 1.50 1.77 64 20
0829+046 1.00 1.50 0.64 23 7
1130+009 1.00 1.50 0.72 26 9
1038+52A 1.00 1.50 0.80 29 25
4C67.05 1.00 1.50 1.72 62 8
0507+179 1.00 1.50 0.94 34 23
0109+224 1.00 1.50 1.08 39 18
0202-172 1.00 1.50 0.89 32 15
2134+00 1.00 1.50 0.94 34 22
Total 10.53 380 164
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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 FFFFT FFF
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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
Hh HARTRAO Mark5A
Ma MATERA Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC 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 Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf
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
Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 15