Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1337
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 R1337
Experiment description: IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule.
Nominal start: 2008-196-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-197-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2008196 (2008.54) ( 14662 MJD, MON. 14JUL.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 12:31: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 7h 37.6m 21d 32.5
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Important Station Information
Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this schedule file.
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There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T.
to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the
intensive session during this period.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc
0133+476 08196-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 |
2005-489 08196-170000| 43 43 |
1606+106 08196-170227| 43 43 43 43 43|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc
0955+476 08197-165306| 43 43 43 43|
2318+049 08197-165310| 100 78 100 43 |
OK290 08197-165425| 46 46 |
OJ287 08197-165547| 44 44 43 |
2234+282 08197-165617| 200 200 43 43 |
0823+033 08197-165707| 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1337.skd for experiment R1337
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.5
Min = 0.0 Max = 65.5 (Baseline Ny-Wz on CTA26 ) RMS = 11.3
Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Ts=TSUKUB32
Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK
Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg
% obs. time: 26 40 46 39 40 39 39 15 35
% cal. time: 4 5 6 5 6 6 6 3 5
% slew time: 43 24 27 37 20 23 17 36 29
% idle time: 27 29 20 18 33 31 37 45 31
total # scans: 349 443 501 455 482 488 499 235 431
# scans/hour : 15 18 21 19 20 20 21 10 18
Avg scan (sec): 64 78 78 73 71 70 68 55 69
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 800 1250 1415 1202 1237 1222 1218 464 1101
Total GB(M5): 711 1111 1257 1069 1100 1086 1083 413 979
# 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: 7830.0
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal
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Ho| 201 13 233 229 15 16 20 727
Kk| 117 183 266 152 89 45 1053
Ny| 151 145 319 378 182 1305
Sh| 374 66 127 88 1222
Ts| 70 114 74 1272
Wf| 312 127 1061
Wz| 199 1235
Zc| 735
Number of 2-station scans: 434
Number of 3-station scans: 323
Number of 4-station scans: 246
Number of 5-station scans: 76
Number of 6-station scans: 29
Number of 7-station scans: 11
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 1119 4305
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
HOBART26 SESHAN25 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:
KOKEE NYALES20 WESTFORD WETTZELL ZELENCHK
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
2005-489 1.00 1.50 0.23 10 8
0221+067 1.00 1.50 0.93 40 18
0920-397 1.00 1.50 0.56 24 17
1123+264 1.00 1.50 1.09 47 15
0302+625 1.00 1.50 0.84 36 36
1717+178 1.00 1.50 1.23 53 21
1849+670 1.00 1.50 1.74 75 6
1347+539 1.00 1.50 1.14 49 22
1502+106 1.00 1.50 1.44 62 19
0600+177 1.00 1.50 0.58 25 9
Total 9.78 421 171
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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 FFFFF FFF
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Major Options
SkyCov Yes
Min_Between 20
Best% 60.0
Last_Hrs 24.00
Add_ps 30.00
Obs_Wts SNRwt
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ho HOBART26 Mark5A
Kk KOKEE Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A
Ts TSUKUB32 Mark5A
Wf WESTFORD Mark5A
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
Zc ZELENCHK Mark5A
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3)
Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz Ho Kk Ny Sh Ts Wf Wz
Kk 20 Kk 15
Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15
Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15
Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15
Zc 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15 15 15