Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1426
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2010.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Experiment: R1426 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2010-102-17:00:00 End: 2010-103-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2010102 (2010.28) ( 15299 MJD, MON. 12APR.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 6:23: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 23.9m 8d 49.3
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Important Station Information
No stations were tagged along to this schedule file.
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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.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ny On Sh Tc Ts Wz
1418+546 10102-170000| 46 61 61 43 43|
0648-165 10102-170236| 92 92 43|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ny On Sh Tc Ts Wz
0648-165 10103-163503| 91 91 43|
3C274 10103-163749| 47 106 106 43 50|
OJ287 10103-164114| 43 43 43 43 43|
0912+029 10103-164241| 60 60 47 43|
1124-186 10103-164424| 43 43 |
0808+019 10103-164425| 46 46 43|
1255-316 10103-164550| 43 43 |
0552+398 10103-164614| 43 43 43|
1406-267 10103-164709| 43 43 |
0133+476 10103-164806| 43 43 43|
1334-127 10103-164834| 43 43 |
0345+460 10103-164936| 141 141 101|
1519-294 10103-165008| 145 145 |
0536+145 10103-165259| 128 128 118|
1657-261 10103-165313| 43 43 |
1741-038 10103-165438| 43 43 |
1636+473 10103-165700| 80 105 105 43 77|
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SKED Summary from file ./r1426.skd for experiment R1426
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.6
Min = 0.0 Max = 80.0 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0648-165) RMS = 15.3
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32
Wz=WETTZELL
Ny On Sh Tc Ts Wz Avg
% obs. time: 47 49 45 13 40 39 39
% cal. time: 5 5 5 1 6 5 5
% slew time: 25 31 33 3 21 14 22
% idle time: 22 14 16 82 32 41 35
total # scans: 459 439 441 75 512 435 393
# scans/hour : 19 18 18 3 21 18 16
Avg scan (sec): 88 97 87 150 67 78 94
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1457 1532 1385 404 1234 1226 1206
Total GB(M5): 1295 1362 1231 359 1097 1089 1072
# of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 5.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6433.8
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ny On Sh Tc Ts Wz StnTotal
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Ny| 376 290 19 316 369 1370
On| 259 23 261 382 1301
Sh| 0 398 257 1204
Tc| 39 28 109
Ts| 259 1273
Wz| 1295
Number of 2-station scans: 265
Number of 3-station scans: 137
Number of 4-station scans: 120
Number of 5-station scans: 188
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 710 3276
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
NYALES20 ONSALA60 SESHAN25 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 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
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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans
1125+366 1.00 1.50 0.09 3 3
0729+259 1.00 1.50 1.34 44 18
0402-362 1.00 1.50 0.18 6 6
0636+680 1.00 1.50 1.22 40 10
1749+701 1.00 1.50 1.34 44 10
0342+147 1.00 1.50 0.21 7 7
NGC0262 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1
1519-294 1.00 1.50 0.09 3 3
1751+288 1.00 1.50 1.43 47 9
0648-165 1.00 1.50 0.82 27 15
Total 6.78 222 82
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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 FFFTF F
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Major Options
Subnet NyOnShTcTsWz
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
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0)
Ny On Sh Tc Ts Ny On Sh Tc Ts
On 20 On 15
Sh 20 20 Sh 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12
Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12
Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15