Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1325 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 R1325 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule Nominal start: 2008-113-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-114-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008113 (2008.31) ( 14579 MJD, TUES 22APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7: 4: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 2.9m 12d 29.2 =========================================================== 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 0552+398 08113-170000| 43 43 56 40 43 56 40| 1954+513 08113-170218| 200 200 | 0727-115 08113-170417| 56 40 133 133 52| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz 0537-441 08114-165158| 58 47 58 | OK290 08114-165247| 43 43| 1308+326 08114-165428| 73 73 61| OJ287 08114-165650| 48 43 40 48 48 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1325.skd for experiment R1325 (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 = 65.5 (Baseline Bd-Wz on 1124-186) RMS = 10.4 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: 13 37 25 37 40 29 35 34 31 % cal. time: 2 3 3 5 5 2 4 5 3 % slew time: 26 43 45 24 30 7 15 14 26 % idle time: 57 16 26 33 24 61 45 46 39 total # scans: 169 287 227 400 431 169 304 413 300 # scans/hour : 7 12 9 17 18 7 13 17 13 Avg scan (sec): 67 111 94 80 81 150 100 71 93 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 471 1248 853 1293 1410 974 1203 1211 1083 Total GB(M5): 419 1109 758 1149 1254 866 1070 1076 963 # 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: 7701.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Bd Ft Hh Ny On Tc Wf Wz StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Bd| 11 42 139 138 0 57 133 520 Ft| 152 43 79 135 155 79 654 Hh| 55 97 68 61 111 586 Ny| 321 18 165 285 1026 On| 36 146 347 1164 Tc| 88 34 379 Wf| 132 804 Wz| 1121 Number of 2-station scans: 277 Number of 3-station scans: 251 Number of 4-station scans: 133 Number of 5-station scans: 54 Number of 6-station scans: 38 Number of 7-station scans: 9 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 762 3127 =========================================================== 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 0507+179 1.00 1.50 0.83 26 13 1622-297 1.00 1.50 0.54 17 9 0003+380 1.00 1.50 1.12 35 10 1743+173 1.00 1.50 0.26 8 6 0636+680 1.00 1.50 1.47 46 9 1502+106 1.00 1.50 0.64 20 4 1123+264 1.00 1.50 1.95 61 11 1954+513 1.00 1.50 1.57 49 15 2355-106 1.00 1.50 0.96 30 10 1435+638 1.00 1.50 1.31 41 12 Total 10.65 333 99 =========================================================== 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