Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1348 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 R1348 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-288-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-289-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008288 (2008.79) ( 14754 MJD, TUES 14OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18:34: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 20.3m -8d 27.8 =========================================================== 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 Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1611+343 08288-170000| 200 100 184 200 108 88| 0912+029 08288-170411| 98 98 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1424-418 08289-165303| 200 200 | OJ287 08289-165431| 47 43 47 | 1920-211 08289-165517| 43 43| 0133+476 08289-165806| 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1348.skd for experiment R1348 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 480.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 2355-106) RMS = 22.0 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 46 42 44 47 34 45 37 42 % cal. time: 3 6 6 3 6 5 6 5 % slew time: 37 38 31 11 24 20 16 26 % idle time: 13 13 18 37 35 29 40 27 total # scans: 282 484 518 258 492 408 486 418 # scans/hour : 12 20 22 11 21 17 20 17 Avg scan (sec): 140 75 74 159 60 96 66 95 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1419 1303 1381 1475 1067 1407 1157 1315 Total GB(M5): 1261 1158 1228 1311 948 1250 1029 1169 # of tapes : 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 0.5 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8184.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ft| 65 28 194 6 135 56 484 Ma| 291 31 218 156 429 1190 Ny| 18 367 215 309 1228 Tc| 42 102 27 414 Ts| 174 228 1035 Wf| 178 960 Wz| 1227 Number of 2-station scans: 534 Number of 3-station scans: 231 Number of 4-station scans: 167 Number of 5-station scans: 83 Number of 6-station scans: 14 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1029 3269 =========================================================== 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 0.00 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: 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 0.00 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 0322+222 1.00 1.50 0.86 28 13 0346-279 1.00 1.50 0.40 13 11 1920-211 1.00 1.50 0.70 23 17 1602-115 1.00 1.50 0.73 24 16 2319+317 1.00 1.50 0.98 32 12 1133-032 1.00 1.50 0.58 19 11 0747+185 1.00 1.50 0.83 27 17 0716+714 1.00 1.50 1.56 51 15 1732+389 1.00 1.50 1.19 39 13 1144+402 1.00 1.50 1.44 47 17 Total 9.27 303 142 =========================================================== 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 FFFTF FF =========================================================== 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 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) Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Ma Ny Tc Ts Wf Ma 20 Ma 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15