Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1422 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: R1422 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-074-17:00:00 End: 2010-075-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010074 (2010.20) ( 15271 MJD, MON. 15MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:32: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 41.6m -1d 59.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information Tigo will not participate in this session because the station only picked up 8 scans when it was tagged along. This is after the earthquake in Chile. It is also unknown when data will be able to be shipped out of Chile. =========================================================== 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 Ma Ts Wf Wz 3C418 10074-170000| 45 54 43 54 49| 1044+719 10074-170204| 54 54 43| 3C274 10074-170214| 55 55 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Ts Wf Wz 1149-084 10075-165554| 43 43 | 2320+506 10075-165608| 145 145 93| 0657+172 10075-165901| 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1422.skd for experiment R1422 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 12.4 Min = 0.0 Max = 144.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 2127-096) RMS = 15.3 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ma Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 24 48 45 37 45 43 40 % cal. time: 3 5 5 7 5 5 5 % slew time: 37 23 31 26 17 14 25 % idle time: 35 23 19 29 33 37 30 total # scans: 289 419 395 566 393 472 422 # scans/hour : 12 17 16 24 16 20 18 Avg scan (sec): 72 98 99 56 98 78 83 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 752 1483 1407 1146 1389 1326 1251 Total GB(M5): 669 1318 1251 1019 1235 1178 1112 # 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: 6669.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ho| 149 37 245 20 35 486 Kk| 113 320 231 195 1008 Ma| 209 205 351 915 Ts| 229 291 1294 Wf| 282 967 Wz| 1154 Number of 2-station scans: 325 Number of 3-station scans: 271 Number of 4-station scans: 184 Number of 5-station scans: 67 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 847 2912 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 KOKEE MATERA 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 0710+439 1.00 1.50 1.58 46 17 0047+023 1.00 1.50 0.21 6 6 2142+110 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 1059+282 1.00 1.50 0.10 3 3 0420+022 1.00 1.50 1.34 39 13 2320+506 1.00 1.50 1.41 41 15 1435+638 1.00 1.50 1.72 50 9 1354+195 1.00 1.50 1.41 41 18 1004-500 1.00 1.50 0.07 2 2 1725+044 1.00 1.50 0.45 13 5 Total 8.31 242 89 =========================================================== 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 HoKkMaTsWfWz 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 Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ma MATERA 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) Ho Kk Ma Ts Wf Ho Kk Ma Ts Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 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