Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1357 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 R1357 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see the master schedule. Nominal start: 2008-350-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-351-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008350 (2008.96) ( 14816 MJD, MON. 15DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 22:38: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 34.3m -23d 18.4 =========================================================== 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 3C371 08350-170000| 43 43 43 43 43| 1015+359 08350-170147| 43 43 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc 1324+224 08351-165615| 43 43 43 43 | 3C418 08351-165808| 43 43 43| 1034-293 08351-165823| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1357.skd for experiment R1357 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 73.8 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0727-115) RMS = 15.8 Total time: 1439 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: 23 34 13 37 38 34 12 27 % cal. time: 5 6 3 8 6 6 2 5 % slew time: 50 31 13 31 25 17 35 29 % idle time: 21 28 70 23 30 42 50 38 total # scans: 404 543 239 699 531 498 209 446 # scans/hour : 17 23 10 29 22 21 9 19 Avg scan (sec): 49 54 46 46 62 58 50 51 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 706 1053 396 1161 1194 1048 373 847 Total GB(M5): 628 936 352 1032 1062 932 331 753 # 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: 5272.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 226 32 344 19 29 27 677 Kk| 109 376 263 137 64 1175 Ny| 141 165 179 70 696 Ts| 213 257 137 1468 Wf| 360 129 1149 Wz| 187 1149 Zc| 614 Number of 2-station scans: 447 Number of 3-station scans: 375 Number of 4-station scans: 167 Number of 5-station scans: 80 Number of 6-station scans: 6 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1075 3464 =========================================================== 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 1555+001 1.00 1.50 0.87 30 20 1428+370 1.00 1.50 0.78 27 15 0422+004 1.00 1.50 1.04 36 22 1746+470 1.00 1.50 0.66 23 11 1015+359 1.00 1.50 3.29 114 22 0332-403 1.00 1.50 0.64 22 16 0016+731 1.00 1.50 1.76 61 8 0109+224 1.00 1.50 1.18 41 20 0925-203 1.00 1.50 0.66 23 15 2216-038 1.00 1.50 1.27 44 17 Total 12.15 421 166 =========================================================== 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