Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1456
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: R1456 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2010-312-17:00:00 End: 2010-313-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2010312 (2010.85) ( 15509 MJD, MON. 8NOV.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 20:11: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 54.8m -16d 40.6
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Important Station Information
The Hobart-12m station was scheduled as a regular station.
Alternating maximum scan lengths of 400 and 600 were used
to get more Tigo scans.
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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 Hb Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf
1324+224 10312-170000| 119 58 119 88|
2255-282 10312-170000| 43 43 |
0059+581 10312-170246| 74 43 74|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Hb Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf
1124-186 10313-163920| 579 206 178 579 340|
0119+115 10313-164015| 43 43 |
2215+150 10313-164204| 57 57 |
0529+483 10313-164558| 98 170 76 170|
0747+185 10313-164827| 303 175 303 |
0716+714 10313-164940| 63 63|
2229+695 10313-165141| 142 142|
0420-014 10313-165215| 43 43 |
1300+580 10313-165449| 114 114 110|
0332-403 10313-165605| 43 43 |
1144+402 10313-165719| 94 64 94|
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SKED Summary from file ./r1456.skd for experiment R1456
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.3
Min = 0.0 Max = 58.2 (Baseline Hb-Wf on 0727-115) RMS = 13.6
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20
Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD
Hb Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf Avg
% obs. time: 45 43 51 46 40 32 54 45
% cal. time: 3 4 4 4 5 2 5 4
% slew time: 10 44 19 26 25 5 20 22
% idle time: 40 8 24 23 29 61 20 30
total # scans: 302 310 336 312 417 135 417 318
# scans/hour : 13 13 14 13 17 6 17 13
Avg scan (sec): 130 120 132 128 83 202 112 129
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1414 1344 1595 1439 1253 982 1687 1388
Total GB(M5): 1257 1195 1417 1279 1114 873 1500 1234
# 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: 8635.0
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Hb Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Wf StnTotal
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Hb| 289 63 13 30 17 12 424
Ho| 72 13 32 16 12 434
Kk| 110 233 53 228 759
Ma| 245 47 218 646
Ny| 27 289 856
Tc| 108 268
Wf| 867
Number of 2-station scans: 441
Number of 3-station scans: 238
Number of 4-station scans: 147
Number of 5-station scans: 9
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 835 2127
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
HOBART12 HOBART26 KOKEE MATERA NYALES20 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
2005-489 1.00 1.50 0.28 6 6
0309+411 1.00 1.50 0.14 3 3
2142-758 1.00 1.50 0.28 6 6
1459+480 1.00 1.50 0.05 1 1
1548+056 1.00 1.50 1.55 33 16
0549-575 1.00 1.50 0.28 6 6
0949+354 1.00 1.50 0.05 1 1
1717+178 1.00 1.50 0.80 17 6
1251-713 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1130+009 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
Total 3.43 73 45
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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 HbHoKkMaNyTcWf
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
Hb HOBART12 Mark5B
Ho HOBART26 Mark5A
Kk KOKEE Mark5A
Ma MATERA Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 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)
Hb Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc Hb Ho Kk Ma Ny Tc
Ho 20 Ho 15
Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15
Ma 20 20 20 Ma 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
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12