Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1359 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 R1359 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Nominal start: 2008-364-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2008-365-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2008364 (2009.00) ( 14830 MJD, MON. 29DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23:34: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 18h 36.4m -23d 10.4 =========================================================== 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 Kk Ma Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc 0917+624 08364-170000| 43 55 55 43 55 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Kk Ma Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc 2229+695 08365-165613| 124 124 124 112 112 82 63| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1359.skd for experiment R1359 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Ma-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 14.4 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Zc=ZELENCHK Kk Ma Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc Avg % obs. time: 38 43 19 40 38 36 16 33 % cal. time: 6 6 3 6 6 6 3 5 % slew time: 27 37 17 39 23 15 41 29 % idle time: 29 13 60 14 32 42 39 33 total # scans: 508 542 278 515 480 522 271 445 # scans/hour : 21 23 12 21 20 22 11 19 Avg scan (sec): 64 68 59 66 69 59 50 62 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1173 1330 588 1232 1195 1114 489 1017 Total GB(M5): 1043 1182 522 1095 1062 990 434 904 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 7.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6329.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Kk Ma Ny Sh Wf Wz Zc StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Kk| 87 124 340 259 126 66 1002 Ma| 221 227 279 481 251 1546 Ny| 153 188 218 124 1028 Sh| 150 213 151 1234 Wf| 291 129 1296 Wz| 226 1555 Zc| 947 Number of 2-station scans: 425 Number of 3-station scans: 218 Number of 4-station scans: 151 Number of 5-station scans: 114 Number of 6-station scans: 45 Number of 7-station scans: 24 Total # of scans, observations: 977 4304 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: KOKEE MATERA 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 Recording mode setup for: 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 0.00 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 0829+046 1.00 1.50 0.72 31 18 4C67.05 1.00 1.50 1.97 85 8 1252+119 1.00 1.50 0.72 31 18 2357-318 1.00 1.50 0.63 27 21 0338-214 1.00 1.50 0.51 22 18 2214+350 1.00 1.50 1.30 56 16 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.84 79 6 0400+258 1.00 1.50 2.00 86 16 1717+178 1.00 1.50 1.05 45 16 0917+624 1.00 1.50 1.81 78 9 Total 12.55 540 146 =========================================================== 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 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A 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) Kk Ma Ny Sh Wf Wz Kk Ma Ny Sh Wf Wz Ma 20 Ma 15 Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 Sh 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