Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1487 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2011.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1487 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2011-165-17:00:00 End: 2011-166-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2011165 (2011.45) ( 15727 MJD, TUES 14JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 10:30: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 5h 30.8m 23d 16.1 =========================================================== Important Station Information Warkworth was tagged along to this schedule file. Fortaleza was scheduled as a regular station and the S-band SEFD was increased to 10,000 to match the X-band SEFD. =========================================================== 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 Ft Hb Ho K1 Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz 0332-403 11165-170000| 121 121 | 3C418 11165-170000| 143 143 103 43 88 67| 1617+229 11165-170242| 77 43 77| 0256-005 11165-170405| 97 97 | 1622-253 11165-170410| 43 43 | 1057-797 11165-170415| 234 280 155 280 85 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hb Ho K1 Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz 2307+106 11166-164414| 386 386 | 0332-403 11166-164454| 123 365 365 323 | 0133+476 11166-164625| 139 64 139 47| 0307+380 11166-164920| 146 146 145| 3C446 11166-165034| 43 43 | 2059+034 11166-165242| 128 128 43 | 2319+317 11166-165418| 171 171 | 0748+126 11166-165435| 228 180 228 53 79| 0529+483 11166-165659| 68 80 80| 2355-106 11166-165752| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1487.skd for experiment R1487 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 4.6 Min = 0.0 Max = 180.0 (Baseline Ww-Wz on 3C446 ) RMS = 10.9 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 K1=KASHIM11 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Ww=WARK12M Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hb Ho K1 Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 30 52 41 43 51 57 43 50 13 59 47 44 % cal. time: 2 3 3 3 3 4 2 6 1 4 5 3 % slew time: 34 7 39 11 20 21 9 24 3 18 15 19 % idle time: 34 38 16 42 24 17 45 19 82 18 33 34 total # scans: 163 221 263 280 298 371 212 506 97 377 400 289 # scans/hour : 7 9 11 12 12 15 9 21 4 16 17 12 Avg scan (sec): 157 203 133 132 148 132 174 86 117 134 101 137 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 921 1616 1260 1333 1584 1757 1331 1560 408 1821 1458 1368 Total GB(M5): 819 1437 1120 1185 1408 1562 1183 1386 363 1619 1296 1216 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 11.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 13377.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hb Ho K1 Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Wz StnTotal ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 6 22 0 15 35 61 3 9 85 66 302 Hb| 57 41 48 11 28 160 87 8 21 467 Ho| 78 71 21 98 88 60 8 14 517 K1| 67 87 2 209 38 51 79 652 Kk| 113 43 131 50 124 83 745 Ny| 24 168 7 229 273 968 Tc| 8 33 78 30 405 Ts| 41 104 152 1064 Ww| 10 3 338 Wf| 217 914 Wz| 938 Number of 2-station scans: 626 Number of 3-station scans: 234 Number of 4-station scans: 137 Number of 5-station scans: 97 Number of 6-station scans: 24 Number of 7-station scans: 7 Number of 8-station scans: 1 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1126 3655 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA HOBART12 HOBART26 KASHIM11 KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WARK12M 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 Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 2123-463 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1004-500 1.00 1.50 0.11 4 4 0506-612 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 0943+105 1.00 1.50 0.11 4 4 0208-512 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1831-711 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1451-400 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0048-427 1.00 1.50 0.11 4 4 1424+366 1.00 1.50 0.05 2 2 0111+021 1.00 1.50 0.14 5 5 Total 0.55 20 20 =========================================================== 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 2 HOBART12 4.00 7 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet FtHbHoK1KkNyTcTsWwWfWz SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ho HOBART26 Mark5A K1 KASHIM11 K5 Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Ww WARK12M Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ft Hb Ho K1 Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Ft Hb Ho K1 Kk Ny Tc Ts Ww Wf Hb 20 Hb 15 Ho 20 99 Ho 15 99 K1 20 20 20 K1 15 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 Ww 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Ww 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 15