Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1429 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: R1429 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-123-17:00:00 End: 2010-124-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010123 (2010.34) ( 15320 MJD, MON. 3MAY.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7:45: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 42.8m 15d 47.1 =========================================================== 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 Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0637-752 10123-170000| 118 118 | 1803+784 10123-170000| 43 43 43 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1954-388 10124-165445| 151 151 | 1308+328 10124-165517| 81 43 81| 3C274 10124-165714| 43 43 43| 1053+815 10124-165855| 43 52 52 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1429.skd for experiment R1429 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 11.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 240.0 (Baseline Ny-Ts on 2335-027) RMS = 18.5 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 39 53 41 38 50 47 45 % cal. time: 3 7 2 7 5 6 5 % slew time: 38 29 7 25 18 15 23 % idle time: 19 10 49 29 25 31 28 total # scans: 272 590 206 573 443 523 434 # scans/hour : 11 25 9 24 18 22 18 Avg scan (sec): 123 78 173 58 98 78 100 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1206 1662 1279 1194 1556 1463 1393 Total GB(M5): 1072 1478 1137 1061 1383 1301 1239 # 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: 7431.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ho| 31 156 118 16 23 344 Ny| 2 463 381 482 1359 Tc| 20 40 13 231 Ts| 279 380 1260 Wf| 344 1060 Wz| 1242 Number of 2-station scans: 339 Number of 3-station scans: 323 Number of 4-station scans: 240 Number of 5-station scans: 0 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 902 2748 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 NYALES20 TIGOCONC 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 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.56 43 10 1821+107 1.00 1.50 1.06 29 17 2351+456 1.00 1.50 1.60 44 12 1020+400 1.00 1.50 0.76 21 8 1055+018 1.00 1.50 1.42 39 15 1622-297 1.00 1.50 0.76 21 17 0700-197 1.00 1.50 0.29 8 8 OQ172 1.00 1.50 0.69 19 7 0422+004 1.00 1.50 1.20 33 15 2335-027 1.00 1.50 0.76 21 11 Total 10.12 278 120 =========================================================== 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 2.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HoNyTcTsWfWz 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 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC 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 Ny Tc Ts Wf Ho Ny Tc Ts Wf Ny 20 Ny 15 Tc 15 15 Tc 12 12 Ts 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 12 15 15