Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1449
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: R1449 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2010-263-17:00:00 End: 2010-264-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2010263 (2010.72) ( 15460 MJD, MON. 20SEP.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 16:57: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 51.3m 0d 56.7
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Important Station Information
Hobart-12m was tagged along to this schedule file.
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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 Hb Ho Ny On Tc Wf
1546+027 10263-170000| 195 135 282 282 209|
1156+295 10263-170547| 43 43 43|
0648-165 10263-170604| 175 175 |
0552+398 10263-170738| 43 43 43|
1124-186 10263-170950| 205 205|
2141+175 10263-171046| 120 67 120 |
0507+179 10263-171313| 245 245 |
0059+581 10263-171807| 43 43 |
1334-127 10263-171855| 59 64 64|
0657+172 10263-172101| 53 62 46 62|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Ny On Tc Wf
1334-127 10264-165258| 62 64 64|
3C418 10264-165539| 84 108 108|
1921-293 10264-165836| 43 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1449.skd for experiment R1449
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.9
Min = 0.0 Max = 72.0 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 1334-127) RMS = 13.5
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60
Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD
Hh Hb Ho Ny On Tc Wf Avg
% obs. time: 30 6 20 39 48 35 49 32
% cal. time: 3 1 2 5 5 2 5 3
% slew time: 57 1 26 24 28 8 21 24
% idle time: 8 92 51 32 18 54 25 40
total # scans: 275 63 159 429 440 195 435 285
# scans/hour : 11 3 7 18 18 8 18 12
Avg scan (sec): 95 77 109 78 95 154 96 100
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 944 174 626 1208 1501 1081 1508 1006
Total GB(M5): 839 154 556 1073 1334 960 1340 894
# of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 7.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6258.0
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Hh Hb Ho Ny On Tc Wf StnTotal
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Hh| 43 101 92 145 70 82 533
Hb| 60 22 9 4 7 145
Ho| 43 12 20 14 250
Ny| 364 30 292 843
On| 57 302 889
Tc| 154 335
Wf| 851
Number of 2-station scans: 301
Number of 3-station scans: 336
Number of 4-station scans: 79
Number of 5-station scans: 14
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 730 1923
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
HARTRAO HOBART12 HOBART26 NYALES20 ONSALA60 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
1610-771 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0107-610 1.00 1.50 0.42 8 8
0534-611 1.00 1.50 0.62 12 12
0454-810 1.00 1.50 0.52 10 10
2005-489 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1738+499 1.00 1.50 0.16 3 3
1514+197 1.00 1.50 0.42 8 8
0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.40 27 11
0507+179 1.00 1.50 0.73 14 10
2351-154 1.00 1.50 0.68 13 9
Total 4.94 95 71
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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
6 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Major Options
Subnet HhHbHoNyOnTcWf
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
Hb HOBART12 Mark5B
Ho HOBART26 Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
On ONSALA60 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 Hb Ho Ny On Tc Hh Hb Ho Ny On Tc
Hb 15 Hb 12
Ho 20 15 Ho 15 12
Ny 20 15 20 Ny 15 12 15
On 20 15 20 20 On 15 12 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12
Wf 20 15 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 12 15 15 15 12