Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1417 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2010.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1417 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-039-17:00:00 End: 2010-040-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010039 (2010.11) ( 15236 MJD, MON. 8FEB.) Greenwich sidereal time: 2:14: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 21h 28.9m -14d 52.1 =========================================================== Important Station Information Tigo was removed from this schedule file because when Tigo was tagged to this schedule file it only picked up 1 scan. Tigo had to be tagged along because it is unknown when the Tigo media will be released from Customs. =========================================================== 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 Ny On Sh Ts Wf Wz 1803+784 10039-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ny On Sh Ts Wf Wz 0420-014 10040-165545| 43 43 43| 1546+027 10040-165558| 43 43 43 | 0454-234 10040-165718| 43 43| 1725+123 10040-165720| 107 107 | 0338-214 10040-165845| 66 66| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1417.skd for experiment R1417 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 13.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Sh-Wf on 1546+027) RMS = 15.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ny On Sh Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 39 47 44 33 39 34 39 % cal. time: 6 6 6 6 4 5 6 % slew time: 27 32 36 22 16 14 25 % idle time: 27 15 13 38 39 47 30 total # scans: 499 488 514 558 385 458 483 # scans/hour : 21 20 21 23 16 19 20 Avg scan (sec): 68 83 74 51 88 63 70 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1218 1452 1368 1015 1216 1045 1219 Total GB(M5): 1083 1291 1216 903 1081 929 1084 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 5.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6502.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ny On Sh Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ny| 423 319 350 338 394 1824 On| 282 300 328 431 1764 Sh| 499 202 266 1568 Ts| 242 279 1670 Wf| 294 1404 Wz| 1664 Number of 2-station scans: 251 Number of 3-station scans: 104 Number of 4-station scans: 124 Number of 5-station scans: 136 Number of 6-station scans: 152 Total # of scans, observations: 767 4947 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: NYALES20 ONSALA60 SESHAN25 TSUKUB32 WESTFORD WETTZELL 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 1659+399 1.00 1.50 1.07 53 6 0632-235 1.00 1.50 0.28 14 14 0917+624 1.00 1.50 1.68 83 7 0745+241 1.00 1.50 1.48 73 15 VR422201 1.00 1.50 1.56 77 9 NRAO140 1.00 1.50 1.66 82 11 1212+171 1.00 1.50 0.44 22 5 2227-088 1.00 1.50 0.87 43 19 0332-403 1.00 1.50 0.06 3 3 1406-267 1.00 1.50 0.26 13 13 Total 9.36 463 102 =========================================================== 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 F =========================================================== Major Options Subnet NyOnShTsWfWz SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MinAngle 15 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 15 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 24.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 60 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ny On Sh Ts Wf Ny On Sh Ts Wf On 20 On 15 Sh 20 20 Sh 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