Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1452
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: R1452 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2010-285-17:00:00 End: 2010-286-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2010285 (2010.78) ( 15482 MJD, TUES 12OCT.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 18:24: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 11.1m -7d 32.3
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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 Kokee and Ny Alesund from 18:15 U.T.
to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and 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 Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf
0727-115 10285-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 |
1800+440 10285-170000| 87 73 87|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf
0727-115 10286-164050| 43 43 43 43 |
2229+695 10286-164422| 116 66 43 116|
0104-408 10286-164557| 68 68 |
0738+491 10286-164712| 292 289 96 292|
2353-686 10286-164921| 81 81 |
0602+673 10286-165240| 101 67 101|
2255-282 10286-165332| 65 65 |
1308+328 10286-165533| 79 67 79|
0332-403 10286-165650| 43 43 43 |
3C274 10286-165730| 123 95 123|
0115-214 10286-165815| 61 61 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1452.skd for experiment R1452
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.3
Min = 0.0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 2127-096) RMS = 13.5
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20
Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD
Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Avg
% obs. time: 28 2 33 52 48 30 36 47 35
% cal. time: 2 0 3 4 5 2 6 5 3
% slew time: 52 1 37 22 22 7 26 17 23
% idle time: 16 96 27 21 24 60 30 30 38
total # scans: 215 38 255 381 415 170 536 392 300
# scans/hour : 9 2 11 16 17 7 22 16 13
Avg scan (sec): 114 43 110 118 100 154 59 104 99
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 882 59 1011 1615 1500 945 1132 1474 1077
Total GB(M5): 784 52 898 1435 1334 840 1006 1310 957
# of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 8.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7659.8
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf StnTotal
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Hh| 9 107 0 30 82 49 45 322
Hb| 36 15 0 6 31 2 99
Ho| 82 17 62 126 7 437
Kk| 240 47 301 195 880
Ny| 9 342 274 912
Tc| 9 59 274
Ts| 249 1107
Wf| 831
Number of 2-station scans: 362
Number of 3-station scans: 307
Number of 4-station scans: 183
Number of 5-station scans: 5
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 857 2431
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
HARTRAO HOBART12 HOBART26 KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 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
0524-460 1.00 1.50 0.16 4 4
0406-127 1.00 1.50 0.12 3 3
2002-375 1.00 1.50 0.29 7 7
2353-686 1.00 1.50 0.58 14 14
1451-400 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1030+074 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1
0206+136 1.00 1.50 0.08 2 2
1616+063 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1
1221+809 1.00 1.50 1.36 33 6
2150+173 1.00 1.50 1.40 34 14
Total 4.07 99 52
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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 HhHbHoKkNyTcTsWf
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
Kk KOKEE Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
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 Kk Ny Tc Ts Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts
Hb 20 Hb 15
Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15
Kk 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12
Ts 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 12
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 15