Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1427
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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----- Parameter listing --------------------------------------
Experiment: R1427 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2010-109-17:00:00 End: 2010-110-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2010109 (2010.30) ( 15306 MJD, MON. 19APR.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 6:50: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 49.8m 11d 18.3
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Ny On Sh Tc Ts
3C274 10109-170000| 123 63 137 137 45|
0945+408 10109-170327| 43 43 43|
0727-115 10109-170329| 69 69 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Ny On Sh Tc Ts
0308-611 10110-164128| 238 238 |
1308+328 10110-164550| 187 189 189 64|
1759-396 10110-164812| 43 43|
0823+033 10110-165012| 94 94 |
1519-273 10110-165104| 43 43 43|
0656+082 10110-165234| 140 140 |
1656-075 10110-165312| 43 43 43|
1749+096 10110-165514| 43 43 43|
3C138 10110-165545| 128 128 |
1923+210 10110-165720| 43 43 43|
0133+476 10110-165900| 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1427.skd for experiment R1427
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.8
Min = 0.0 Max = 67.5 (Baseline Ho-Tc on 0727-115) RMS = 13.0
Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO
Ts=TSUKUB32
Ho Ny On Sh Tc Ts Avg
% obs. time: 36 43 47 46 29 35 39
% cal. time: 3 5 5 5 2 6 4
% slew time: 37 25 27 34 6 22 26
% idle time: 23 26 20 13 62 36 31
total # scans: 281 469 411 455 164 515 382
# scans/hour : 12 20 17 19 7 21 16
Avg scan (sec): 111 79 99 88 152 59 97
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1122 1337 1462 1436 896 1098 1225
Total GB(M5): 997 1188 1300 1276 796 976 1089
# of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 5.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6533.7
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ho Ny On Sh Tc Ts StnTotal
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Ho| 40 9 140 115 168 472
Ny| 388 313 25 338 1104
On| 261 33 269 960
Sh| 0 426 1140
Tc| 21 194
Ts| 1222
Number of 2-station scans: 322
Number of 3-station scans: 180
Number of 4-station scans: 269
Number of 5-station scans: 7
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 778 2546
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
HOBART26 NYALES20 ONSALA60 SESHAN25 TIGOCONC 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
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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans
1349-439 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1
0153+744 1.00 1.50 0.51 13 13
0148+274 1.00 1.50 1.14 29 15
1656+348 1.00 1.50 0.27 7 7
2155+312 1.00 1.50 0.27 7 7
2005-489 1.00 1.50 0.16 4 2
0945+408 1.00 1.50 1.53 39 13
3C138 1.00 1.50 1.41 36 13
1402+044 1.00 1.50 0.86 22 7
0646-306 1.00 1.50 0.35 9 7
Total 6.56 167 85
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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 FFFFT F
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Major Options
Subnet HoNyOnShTcTs
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
Ho HOBART26 Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0)
Ho Ny On Sh Tc Ho Ny On Sh Tc
Ny 20 Ny 15
On 20 20 On 15 15
Sh 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12
Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12