Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1446 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: R1446 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-242-17:00:00 End: 2010-243-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010242 (2010.66) ( 15439 MJD, MON. 30AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15:35: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 35.7m 8d 51.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information This is the last 24-hour session for Wettzell before the station goes down for its repairs. Kashima-34m replaced Tsukuba during this session because Tsukuba is down for repairs. =========================================================== There are no observations for Ny Alesund and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Ny Alesund and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf Wz 1732+389 10242-170000| 182 69 84 182 86 43 154 70| 0111+021 10242-170456| 43 43 | 1324+224 10242-170640| 108 80 167 43 167 110 75| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf Wz 0748+126 10243-165537| 72 72 43 | 0003-066 10243-165755| 43 43 | 1622-253 10243-165843| 52 52 43| 0059+581 10243-165905| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1446.skd for experiment R1446 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Kb-Ny on CTA26 ) RMS = 10.8 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Kb=KASHIM34 Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Sh=SESHAN25 Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 37 31 30 37 36 23 37 37 28 33 % cal. time: 3 5 4 4 4 4 2 3 4 4 % slew time: 51 37 20 24 31 54 8 15 11 28 % idle time: 8 27 45 34 28 17 51 44 56 35 total # scans: 259 390 350 344 372 381 210 301 348 328 # scans/hour : 11 16 15 14 16 16 9 13 15 14 Avg scan (sec): 123 69 74 94 83 52 152 106 70 90 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1146 967 937 1163 1108 712 1150 1148 875 1023 Total GB(M5): 1019 859 833 1034 985 633 1022 1021 777 909 # of tapes : 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 8.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8182.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------- Hh| 61 103 120 104 121 99 66 145 819 Kb| 223 182 306 244 20 101 188 1325 Ny| 265 236 300 33 153 271 1584 On| 204 292 36 157 274 1530 Sh| 241 1 84 206 1382 Sv| 25 140 290 1653 Tc| 128 36 378 Wf| 143 972 Wz| 1553 Number of 2-station scans: 289 Number of 3-station scans: 119 Number of 4-station scans: 59 Number of 5-station scans: 86 Number of 6-station scans: 112 Number of 7-station scans: 94 Number of 8-station scans: 3 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 762 5598 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO KASHIM34 NYALES20 ONSALA60 SESHAN25 SVETLOE TIGOCONC 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 1428+370 1.00 1.50 0.11 6 4 0239+175 1.00 1.50 0.05 3 1 1125+366 1.00 1.50 0.07 4 4 2254+074 1.00 1.50 0.29 16 12 0729+259 1.00 1.50 0.45 25 5 0422-380 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1 2319+444 1.00 1.50 0.04 2 2 1849+670 1.00 1.50 1.50 84 7 1557+032 1.00 1.50 1.45 81 8 2220-351 1.00 1.50 0.07 4 4 Total 4.04 226 48 =========================================================== 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 1 HARTRAO 5.00 7 TIGOCONC 15.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HhKbNyOnShSvTcWfWz 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Kb KASHIM34 K5 Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Sv SVETLOE Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== 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 Wf Hh Kb Ny On Sh Sv Tc Wf 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 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15