Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1345
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 R1345
Experiment description: IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule.
Nominal start: 2008-266-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-267-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2008266 (2008.73) ( 14732 MJD, MON. 22SEP.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 17: 7: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 12h 0.2m 0d 1.3
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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 Sh Wf Wz Zc
1357+769 08266-170000| 43 43 43 43 43|
3C418 08266-170129| 46 46 |
0400+258 08266-170229| 43 43 43 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz Zc
0602+673 08267-164906| 59 59 43|
1034-293 08267-165016| 43 43 |
1124-186 08267-165135| 43 43 |
0458-020 08267-165144| 81 81 |
1334-127 08267-165255| 43 43 |
1557+032 08267-165418| 200 200 |
0454-234 08267-165434| 43 43 43 |
0405-385 08267-165630| 76 60 76 |
0823+033 08267-165845| 73 73 |
0208-512 08267-165910| 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1345.skd for experiment R1345
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.5
Min = 0.0 Max = 81.5 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0607-157) RMS = 15.3
Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Sh=SESHAN25 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL
Zc=ZELENCHK
Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz Zc Avg
% obs. time: 23 34 34 38 39 13 30
% cal. time: 4 6 6 6 6 3 5
% slew time: 42 28 43 26 19 34 33
% idle time: 30 31 16 29 34 50 32
total # scans: 358 505 503 548 542 216 445
# scans/hour : 15 21 21 23 23 9 19
Avg scan (sec): 56 58 58 60 62 52 57
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 716 1053 1052 1178 1212 405 936
Total GB(M5): 636 936 935 1047 1078 360 832
# of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 0.4 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 4992.2
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz Zc StnTotal
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Ho| 233 265 15 19 22 554
Kk| 282 224 156 61 956
Sh| 123 206 114 990
Wf| 424 137 923
Wz| 201 1006
Zc| 535
Number of 2-station scans: 499
Number of 3-station scans: 397
Number of 4-station scans: 87
Number of 5-station scans: 27
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 1010 2482
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
HOBART26 SESHAN25
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 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
0839+187 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0400+258 1.00 1.50 1.85 46 16
0615+820 1.00 1.50 1.09 27 6
1557+032 1.00 1.50 0.77 19 11
1451-400 1.00 1.50 0.36 9 9
1413+135 1.00 1.50 0.48 12 8
1656+477 1.00 1.50 1.05 26 7
1749+701 1.00 1.50 0.97 24 6
1030+415 1.00 1.50 1.09 27 10
IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 0.56 14 8
Total 8.22 204 81
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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 F
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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
Sh SESHAN25 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 Sh Wf Wz Ho Kk Sh Wf Wz
Kk 20 Kk 15
Sh 20 20 Sh 15 15
Wf 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15
Zc 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15