Session Notes for R4 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r4422 Prepared by J. Gipson, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2010.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R4422 Description NEOSA Scheduler: USNO Correlator: TBD Start: 2010-077-18:30:00 End: 2010-078-18:30:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010077 (2010.21) ( 15274 MJD, THUR 18MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6:14: 0.00 (18:30: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 52.8m 0d 46.5 =========================================================== Important Station Information This is a replacement schedule for R4422 that includes TIGO. This session will provide important information about TIGO's position after the quake. =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 0133+476 10077-183000| 370 370 155 | 2059+034 10077-183336| 60 60 | ... 1739+522 10077-193324| 257 257 161 60| 1324+224 10077-193500| 60 60| 2000+472 10077-193818| 65 65 60| END OF AUTOCHECKING =========================================================== Last observations Observation listing from file ./r4422.skd for experiment R4422 Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz 1342+662 10078-181512| 384 384 224 85| 1920-211 10078-181555| 308 308 | 0119+115 10078-182326| 122 122 60| 2052-474 10078-182328| 60 60 | 1759-396 10078-182608| 143 143 | 2229+695 10078-182648| 88 88 60| End of listing. =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r4422.skd for experiment R4422 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 49.7 (Baseline Ho-Wz on 0920+390) RMS = 9.8 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 43 59 61 50 58 41 52 % cal. time: 3 4 4 2 4 4 3 % slew time: 29 16 24 6 16 12 18 % idle time: 24 20 10 41 21 41 27 total # scans: 222 326 346 171 360 384 301 # scans/hour : 9 14 14 7 15 16 13 Avg scan (sec): 168 157 151 252 138 93 159 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1426 1957 2007 1614 1917 1421 1724 Total GB(M5): 1268 1739 1784 1435 1704 1263 1532 # 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: 9192.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Wz StnTotal ---------------------------------------- Ho| 120 26 80 13 36 275 Kk| 121 41 198 163 643 Ma| 35 221 308 711 Tc| 82 32 270 Wf| 248 762 Wz| 787 Number of 2-station scans: 356 Number of 3-station scans: 190 Number of 4-station scans: 128 Number of 5-station scans: 3 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 677 1724 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 KOKEE MATERA 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 Total 0.00 0 0 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 SkyCov Rel 1.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HoKkMaTcWfWz SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MinAngle 15 MinBetween 30 MinSunDist 15 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 4.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 25 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ma MATERA Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Ho Kk Ma Tc Wf Kk 20 Kk 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 12 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15