Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1356 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 R1356 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-344-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-345-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008344 (2008.94) ( 14810 MJD, TUES 9DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 22:15: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 7.8m -22d 53.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were 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 Ts Wf Wz Zc 0212+735 08344-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43| 0524+034 08344-170150| 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 1550-242 08345-164932| 150 150 | 0745+241 08345-165027| 43 43 | 0215+015 08345-165215| 43 43 43 43| 0529+483 08345-165353| 43 43 43 43 | 0406+121 08345-165524| 105 105 105| 1608+243 08345-165601| 125 125 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1356.skd for experiment R1356 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 205.7 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1958-179) RMS = 16.4 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 24 37 10 39 41 38 14 29 % cal. time: 5 6 2 8 6 6 3 5 % slew time: 51 29 12 30 23 17 36 29 % idle time: 19 28 75 22 30 38 47 37 total # scans: 405 521 176 708 483 484 222 428 # scans/hour : 17 22 7 30 20 20 9 18 Avg scan (sec): 52 61 49 47 74 68 53 57 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 751 1137 312 1207 1279 1180 426 899 Total GB(M5): 668 1010 277 1073 1137 1049 379 799 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 5591.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 205 12 331 15 19 24 606 Kk| 70 334 237 118 47 1011 Ny| 119 117 150 63 531 Ts| 177 267 159 1387 Wf| 323 122 991 Wz| 198 1075 Zc| 613 Number of 2-station scans: 540 Number of 3-station scans: 353 Number of 4-station scans: 118 Number of 5-station scans: 68 Number of 6-station scans: 8 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1087 3107 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 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: 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 0.00 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 0627-199 1.00 1.50 1.22 38 24 0227-369 1.00 1.50 0.87 27 19 1550-242 1.00 1.50 0.48 15 13 1933-400 1.00 1.50 0.45 14 12 1608+243 1.00 1.50 0.87 27 15 2335-027 1.00 1.50 1.00 31 21 0406+121 1.00 1.50 0.77 24 10 0212+735 1.00 1.50 2.38 74 8 0745+241 1.00 1.50 1.35 42 21 1038+064 1.00 1.50 1.42 44 21 Total 10.81 336 164 =========================================================== 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 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 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 Ts Wf Wz Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Kk 20 Kk 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 Zc 20 20 20 20 20 20 Zc 15 15 15 15 15 15