Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1353
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 R1353
Experiment description: IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule.
Nominal start: 2008-322-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-323-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2008322 (2008.88) ( 14788 MJD, MON. 17NOV.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 20:48: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 33.6m -19d 11.3
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Important Station Information
Ny Alesund was tagged along to this schedule file.
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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.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ny On Tc Ts Wz
0529+483 08322-170000| 43 43 43|
2052-474 08322-170000| 185 185 |
0235+164 08322-170141| 43 43 43|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ny On Tc Ts Wz
2052-474 08323-164506| 185 185 |
0235+164 08323-164532| 43 43 43 43|
0134+311 08323-164702| 120 120 102|
2126-158 08323-165014| 43 43|
2227-088 08323-165140| 76 76 43|
2145+067 08323-165341| 43 43 43 43|
1615+029 08323-165537| 49 49|
0800+618 08323-165748| 43 43 43 43|
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SKED Summary from file ./r1353.skd for experiment R1353
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.2
Min = 0.0 Max = 288.0 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1255-177) RMS = 19.6
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32
Wz=WETTZELL
Ft Ny On Tc Ts Wz Avg
% obs. time: 38 14 48 40 27 40 34
% cal. time: 3 2 6 3 4 6 4
% slew time: 41 12 34 10 15 16 22
% idle time: 17 71 11 46 54 37 40
total # scans: 246 191 557 246 304 513 342
# scans/hour : 10 8 23 10 13 21 14
Avg scan (sec): 135 62 74 140 75 67 91
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1195 425 1477 1243 825 1230 1066
Total GB(M5): 1062 378 1313 1105 734 1093 948
# of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 5.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5685.4
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Ny On Tc Ts Wz StnTotal
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Ft| 45 80 192 9 75 401
Ny| 187 26 79 170 507
On| 42 233 485 1027
Tc| 53 36 349
Ts| 196 570
Wz| 962
Number of 2-station scans: 455
Number of 3-station scans: 215
Number of 4-station scans: 98
Number of 5-station scans: 22
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 790 1908
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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:
NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC 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
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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans
1100+122 1.00 1.50 0.52 10 6
0055-059 1.00 1.50 1.00 19 11
0632-235 1.00 1.50 0.47 9 9
0529+483 1.00 1.50 1.31 25 12
1406-267 1.00 1.50 0.58 11 11
1520+437 1.00 1.50 0.63 12 8
2351+456 1.00 1.50 1.26 24 10
2029+121 1.00 1.50 0.79 15 9
3C120 1.00 1.50 0.79 15 9
1039+811 1.00 1.50 1.36 26 12
Total 8.70 166 97
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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 FFFTF 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
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3)
Ft Ny On Tc Ts Ft Ny On Tc Ts
Ny 20 Ny 15
On 20 20 On 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12
Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12
Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15