Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1458 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: R1458 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-326-17:00:00 End: 2010-327-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010326 (2010.89) ( 15523 MJD, MON. 22NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21: 6: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 52.4m -20d 12.5 =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hb Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf 0657+172 10326-170000| 242 127 199 242 43 | 1040+244 10326-170456| 187 145 159 43 187| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hb Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf 0827+243 10327-165222| 253 108 160 253 43 | 3C274 10327-165353| 52 52| 0925-203 10327-165622| 133 133 43 | 0059+581 10327-165833| 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1458.skd for experiment R1458 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 2227-088) RMS = 14.5 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Hb Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf Avg % obs. time: 46 42 49 44 37 50 45 % cal. time: 4 4 5 6 6 6 5 % slew time: 11 44 22 27 27 19 25 % idle time: 38 8 23 23 29 25 25 total # scans: 345 340 408 492 546 476 434 # scans/hour : 14 14 17 21 23 20 18 Avg scan (sec): 115 108 104 76 59 90 91 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1434 1318 1522 1353 1150 1548 1387 Total GB(M5): 1275 1171 1353 1203 1023 1376 1233 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7399.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hb Ho Kk Ny Ts Wf StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Hb| 313 77 9 151 7 557 Ho| 87 10 149 7 566 Kk| 283 307 288 1042 Ny| 341 420 1063 Ts| 299 1247 Wf| 1021 Number of 2-station scans: 407 Number of 3-station scans: 248 Number of 4-station scans: 252 Number of 5-station scans: 7 Number of 6-station scans: 1 Total # of scans, observations: 915 2748 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART12 HOBART26 KOKEE NYALES20 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 2244-372 1.00 1.50 1.46 40 15 1610-771 1.00 1.50 0.69 19 19 0534-340 1.00 1.50 0.22 6 6 0442+389 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 1255-177 1.00 1.50 0.07 2 2 1651+391 1.00 1.50 1.24 34 12 1639-062 1.00 1.50 0.33 9 5 1215+303 1.00 1.50 0.18 5 5 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.82 50 24 0111+021 1.00 1.50 0.15 4 4 Total 6.19 170 93 =========================================================== 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 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HbHoKkNyTsWf 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 Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Hb Ho Kk Ny Ts Hb Ho Kk Ny Ts Ho 20 Ho 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Ts 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15