Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1445
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: R1445 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2010-235-17:00:00 End: 2010-236-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2010235 (2010.64) ( 15432 MJD, MON. 23AUG.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 15: 7: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 10.1m 11d 18.6
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There are no observations for Ny Alesund from 18:15 U.T.
to 19:45 U.T. Ny Alesund will participate in the
intensive session during this period.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf
0237-027 10235-170000| 43 43 |
1324+224 10235-170000| 108 80 166 43 166 110|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf
OJ287 10236-165122| 52 52|
2059+034 10236-165314| 174 66 121 174 114 44 |
2255-282 10236-165615| 43 43 |
2229+695 10236-165618| 52 52|
1923+210 10236-165702| 43 43 |
2355-106 10236-165747| 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1445.skd for experiment R1445
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.8
Min = 0.0 Max = 66.1 (Baseline Ny-Sv on 1351-018) RMS = 12.3
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Hh=HARTRAO Kb=KASHIM34 Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25
Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD
Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf Avg
% obs. time: 25 33 33 40 38 26 28 41 33
% cal. time: 2 5 4 4 5 5 2 4 4
% slew time: 41 39 21 25 34 58 6 17 31
% idle time: 30 23 40 30 23 11 63 38 33
total # scans: 190 407 347 340 392 396 148 324 318
# scans/hour : 8 17 14 14 16 17 6 14 13
Avg scan (sec): 115 69 83 101 84 56 161 109 97
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 789 1012 1036 1239 1180 800 860 1273 1024
Total GB(M5): 701 900 921 1102 1049 711 765 1132 910
# of tapes : 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 7.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7280.0
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf StnTotal
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Hh| 41 58 70 59 84 78 50 440
Kb| 213 170 339 230 16 138 1147
Ny| 255 226 285 17 214 1268
On| 194 295 24 205 1213
Sh| 234 0 135 1187
Sv| 19 202 1349
Tc| 72 226
Wf| 1016
Number of 2-station scans: 338
Number of 3-station scans: 94
Number of 4-station scans: 96
Number of 5-station scans: 114
Number of 6-station scans: 103
Number of 7-station scans: 2
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 747 3923
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
HARTRAO KASHIM34 NYALES20 ONSALA60 SESHAN25 SVETLOE TIGOCONC WESTFORD
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
0054+161 1.00 1.50 0.05 2 2
1831-711 1.00 1.50 0.61 24 24
2205+166 1.00 1.50 0.10 4 4
1459+480 1.00 1.50 1.15 45 8
0422+004 1.00 1.50 0.84 33 12
1717+178 1.00 1.50 1.45 57 15
0805+046 1.00 1.50 0.64 25 9
0954+658 1.00 1.50 1.53 60 7
0302+625 1.00 1.50 0.46 18 12
1147+245 1.00 1.50 1.40 55 11
Total 8.23 323 104
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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 2.00
7 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Major Options
Subnet HhKbNyOnShSvTcWf
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
Hh HARTRAO Mark5A
Kb KASHIM34 K5
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A
Sv SVETLOE Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A
Wf WESTFORD Mark5A
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0)
Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc
Kb 20 Kb 15
Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15
On 20 20 20 On 15 15 15
Sh 20 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 15
Sv 20 20 20 20 20 Sv 15 15 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 15 12