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. =========================================================== 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 =========================================================== Important Station Information Zelenchukskaya was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== 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| =========================================================== 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 | =========================================================== 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 -------------------------------------------------- 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 =========================================================== 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 =========================================================== 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 =========================================================== 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 =========================================================== Major Options SkyCov Yes Min_Between 20 Best% 60.0 Last_Hrs 24.00 Add_ps 30.00 Obs_Wts SNRwt =========================================================== 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 =========================================================== 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